Perennial Vegetables: The Low-Maintenance Food Garden

The Permanent Food GardenAnnual vegetables require yearly seed investment, soil preparation, transplanting, and establishment. Perennial vegetables, once established, require dramatically less work — they return each season on their own, often with minimal inputs, and many actually improve in productivity over years as their root systems develop.AsparagusThe quintessential perennial vegetable — an established asparagus bed produces for 20–30 years with minimal maintenance. The initial inve…