Gardener friends--any favorite crops or varieties that are vaguely obscure and you think everyone should grow? A few from me, red russian kale, lemon cucumbers, runner beans, and pink single mums--I think there are several varieties, but they look like pink daisies and are blooming profusely now when little else is--this is for cuts.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I am all for any produce that grows itself. A lot of perennial crops fit that bill, and most fruits are perennial. In my yard, conditions are mostly part sun to part shade, and alkaline clay soil. Not easy. But I have wild southern blackberry cousins, called dewberries, that want to grow all over my back yard. So I am letting them, at least in one quarter of the space. Left to themselves, they trail on the ground, more prostrate than true blackberries, but I have helped them weave into my perimeter chain link fence, plus put up an additional hundred feet of staked guide wires up to 3 feet high in rows 6 ft apart. Dewberries fruit a bit earlier than blackberries and produce single stems with berries from every leaf node (rather than clusters) on 2nd year vines. The only work required from me, aside from picking them, is to prune out old vines that have just produced, to make way for next year's productive vines. Sweet!
MikeInBatonRouge
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Nov 17, 2019
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Angelica, just chop the young tender stems in spring into any fruit you are cooking, no need to preserve it. Lovage for a rich celery type flavour in soups and stews. Angelica is a biennial but self sows and lovage is a tall herb, neither are difficult to grow.
Fernapple
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Nov 16, 2019
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@DavidDuhon Could be lovage, does it grow to four feet plus ?
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