Episode notes
It's mid-May. I've already planted 90 plus plants. I've already had some transplanted grafted trees fail - cedar, apple, rust gets them, even if the book says that this variety should be resistant, (I guess the tree didn't read the book). So this year I started to convert some of my garden, the peripheral parts, into perennials, with annuals in the middle.Regular greens in my garden bolt quickly when it gets hot in early summer.
Options to augment those with perennial greens - dock, sorrel, lambs quarters, both narrow leaf plantain and a wider leaf plantain. Perennial are more bitter than annual greens. Dock and sorrel have a slight lemony after taste.
Hazelnuts, goji berries around the outside edges. Walking onion, Solomon seal, plantain, dock, with annual lettuce in the middle of one bed.
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Keywords
perennials