I Planted These 12 Foods Once. I’m Still Harvesting Them Decades Later
Plant these 12 foods once and you’ll be harvesting from them for a decade or more, some of them for 20, 30, even 50 years. If you’re trying to build a garden that feeds you with less digging, less replanting, and less money spent on seed packets every spring, this is where to put your effort. I’ve got every one of these growing right now, and some of my asparagus and rhubarb crowns are older than my kids.
The trade-off with perennial food crops is patience up front. Most of these ask you to wait a year or two before you get a proper harvest, and in exchange, they’ll keep producing with barely any input from you for the rest of their productive life. That’s a good deal. Here’s what to plant.