Martin Crawford has spent more than 20 years in organic agriculture and horticulture, and is director of the Agroforestry Research Trust, a nonprofit charity that researches temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub, and perennial crops. The Trust produces several publications and a quarterly journal, and sells plants and seeds. He is the author of several books, including Creating a Forest Garden and A Forest Garden Year.

Foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall                                                        

Introduction                                                                                                       

Part 1  An introduction to perennial vegetables                                          

• What is a perennial vegetable?                                                                                                  
• The case for growing perennials                                                                                               

 2.   Growing perennial vegetables                                                                    

• Types of perennial plant                                                                                                               
• Soils                                                                                                                                                 
• Perennial beds                                                                                                                              
• Planting patterns                                                                                                                           
• Perennial polycultures                                                                                                                  
• Perennial grains                                                                                                                            
• Perennial tuber and root crops                                                                                                   
• Perennial vegetables and ground-cover plants                                                                      
• Forest gardens                                                                                                                              
• Growing perennial vegetables under existing trees                                                               
• Growing aquatic perennial vegetables                                                                                     
• Native and non-native plants                                                                                                       

• Feeding                                                                                                                                           
• Soil pH                                                                                                                                             
• Disease management                                                                                                                 
• Pestmanagement                                                                                                                        
• Harvesting and yields                                                                                                                   
• Propagation                                                                                                                                    
• Maintenance                                                                                                                                   

Part 2 Perennial vegetables A–Z                                                                

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