How to Grow Perennial Vegetables: Low-maintenance, low-impact vegetable gardening Paperback – April 5, 2012

Well-organized and full of useful information. The author is UK-based and although the advice will apply to any gardener, I would love to see a North American edition that had a sharper focus on plants that will work in my region. Good read.

There is no one book that can tell you how to grow everything, but this book is such a handy reference guide to start with when learning about perennials. I keep it handy. Crawford introduces it with a long section dealing with polyculture, and unless you are already well familiar with permaculture, you will learn a lot. In the A-Z plant section you will come across maybe a hundred plants of varying edibility; quite a few are easy to grow and very tasty. The author gives a short description of each along with rudimentary growing instructions. He includes zone hardiness information as well. I keep this on my shelf right next to Eric Toensmeir's 'Perennial Vegetables.'

I always thought that gardening was just too much work. But I like the philosophy of growing perennial plants particularly edible "weeds". It's my fantasy to plant and the only work I ever do is just harvest, food prep and eating.

Another very useful book from Martin Crawford. The same setup as his 'Creating a Forest Garden' book. Only thing I was missing is some more categorizing the types of vegetables. Now it is an alphabetical summing up all that you can grow on Perennial Vegetables.

Perrenial vegetables, what an amazing thing! I think if more people read this book and were sold on the subject then gardening would take a very different direction. Crawford really lays the information out succinctly. It is also a great companion to Creating a Forest Garden. Really great pictures and format too!

Everyone need to do this instead of annual veggies! I had no idea there were so many plants that produce food year after year and you only have to plant them once! What a great idea! I want to plant nothing but perennial veggies and trees now!

I use this book for building my food forest collection and it is fantastic. A lot of great plants and tons of information on growing and using them. Lots of good pictures and It's very enjoyable to read as well.

I'm very pleased with this book. It has beautiful color photos to help identify the plants. Im looking forward to trying some of the great ideas in it. I would recommend this book.