Want to try our Perma Veggies but don't know where to begin? Are you wondering which varieties will do well in your area? The Starter Pack is here to eliminate the guess work and make growing Perma Veggies in your growing zone easy and fool-proof. We've selected five of our favorite varieties that will thrive as perennials in each growing zone. Not sure of your zone? You can find it here.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE ZONE 5 VEGGIE STARTER PACK:
1) PERMA TOMATO - Wild Everglades
2) PERMA CUCUMBER LEAF - Salad Burnet
3) PERMA GARLIC - Garlic Chives
4) PERMA SPINACH - Less-Sting Nettles
5) PERMA CARROTS - Skirret
Want to add more Perma plants that will thrive in Zone 5? Click here for the full collection of Zone 5 Perma plants.
Variety Overview
5 INCREDIBLE PERMA VEGGIES JUST FOR YOU!
PERMA TOMATO - Wild Everglades
In looking for the ideal Perma Tomato, we found it in the most unlikely of places - the Florida Everglades. This tenacious little tomato doesn’t just grow, it thrives, perennializing and playfully reseeding in gardens year after year. What it lacks in size, it more than makes up for in flavor and quantity. A single plant will give you hundreds of beautiful tomatoes. And best of all, it’s considered the most nutritious tomato in the world, having the most lycopene of any variety tested. (Solanum pimpinellifolium)
PERMA ONIONS - Walking Onions
These are our favorite perennial onions! Also known as walking onions, these onions are truly amazing. The entire plant is edible and there are many ways to enjoy their onion-ey goodness. The greens can be cut eaten throughout the season like a delicious green onion. They will send up a flower stalk with edible small onions on top (called bulbils), that are tasty. And the tubers can be thinned as your patch grows and the bulb eaten like a shallot. So little work and so much flavor! (Allium proliferum)
PERMA GARLIC - Garlic Chives
Year-round garlic flavor without all the fuss...what's not to love? Garlic chives are a beautiful, simple to grow plant that will give you garlic flavor all year long. Harvest the green tops and use as you would garlic in any dish. (Allium tuberosum)
PERMA SPINACH - Less-Sting Nettles
It's not nice to play favorites, but if we had to choose one perennial alternative to annual spinach, the choice is easy ... it's Less-Sting Nettle! This is a nettle that has been naturally selected to have little to no sting on the leaves. Nettle is nature's multivitamin. Its amazing golden root structure mines deep for vitamins and minerals and pulls them to the surface into its roots, leaves, and seeds. It's one of the most nutrient-dense foods you can add to your diet. This same makes abundance of nutrients make it an amazing fertilizer for your garden. Delicious and nutritious. You can’t go wrong with planting a nettle patch. (Urtica dioica)
PERMA CARROTS - Skirret
Imagine a perennial root that tastes like the sweetest carrot you've ever eaten ... this is SKIRRET! Skirret literally means "sugar root". Skirret is our answer to the question, "how can I have an endless supply of carrot flavor without all of the hassle and work of planting carrots every year?" Skirret has captured our hearts and has earned not 1, but 2 full beds in our garden because it's so easy, so yummy, and so prolific. (Sium sisarum)