Growing Perennial Edibles
Channel: Tayport Plant
Date: 2020-05-12

Our gardening guru for today's session of online gardening was Helena Simmons from Ninewells Community Garden in Dundee. She gave us a run down of edible perennials she's been successfully growing from cuttings and seed and gave a quick demonstration of how to take and root cuttings from woody perennials such as rosemary.


Among the more unusual edibles, we heard of the Tudor's (and Helena's) favourite, the skirrets, the perennial kales and rocket, and mountain sorrel along with useful tasting notes and growing tips.


You can read more about this and other workshops in this series on PLANT website: https://tayportgarden.org/2020/05/12/growing-edible-perennials/ 



This workshop series is an informal collaboration between a number of local community food growers in response to increased demand for growing advice under covid-15 lockdown, including Edible Campus (Transition University St Andrews), Strathkinness Community Garden, Ninewells Community Garden, PLANT’s Tayport Community Garden. We would welcome any other contributors, please get in touch with Kaska on blog@tayportgarden.org.