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what are the easiest flowers, herbs, vegetables to plant once and have them grow year after year?
or do you need to replant everything every year?
Re: what are the easiest flowers, herbs, vegetables to plant once and have them grow year after year?
Perennials you plant once and they (usually) come back year after year.
Annuals you plant each year.
Most veggies are annuals.
I've had good luck planting the following bulbs
in the fall tulips, daffodils, crocus, hyacinth
in the spring, gladiolas, lillies
Then you can plant azalea bushes, hydrangea bushes, butterfly bushes, rose bushes and they all come back each year. Roses can be hard to maintain, I have to spray mine all the time or something eats the leaves, but the knockout roses are really easy and they now have several colors. I have the original "red" which is a dark pink and now I have a yellow one called Sunny too.
As for edibles, herbs are really pretty easy to grow. Some come back each year others dont. I plant my herbs in containers. I have more information about what I plant, how I collect the seeds, what needs to be replanted etc in one of my latest blog posts
Neena Mae. 1/7/10
"A baby nursing at a mother's breast is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature." - David Suzuki
Herbs are ridiculously easy to grow. Even the annuals that you have to replant, they are so prolific it's worth it. And some, like basil are ridiculously easy from seed. In addition to the list above, mint will usually come back. Plant it in a container, though, because it spreads.
I've had good luck with any flower from bulb, tuber or corm. Because they store their energy in the bulb they can take a lot of abuse and still come back. The exception being tulips, which have been finicky for me. Crocosima "Lucifer" has done the best for me, spreads a little every year and is beautiful with little water.
If you have the sun and space, artichoke comes back every year out here.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
I agree. You need to learn your own climate before you can figure out which plants will work and which ones won't.
Many plants in the south will freeze to death up north. On the other hand, certain bulbs, like tulips and daffodils, prefer cooler climates, and without a distinct winter, they will not rebloom.
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