Plant These in MAY 11 Edible Perennials You Plant Once and Eat for Decades

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Every spring you spend fifty dollars on tomato starts, basil, and zucchini seeds. By October every single one of them is dead. There is one plant on this list that produces fruit for fifty years or more. There is another that plants itself across your garden every summer without you touching it. There is one that was a staple of colonial American kitchen gardens for two hundred years before supermarkets made everyone forget it existed. The blueberry on this list has the highest antioxidant content of any commonly consumed fresh fruit on the planet, documented by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and costs twelve dollars at Home Depot this month. These are the plants that keep giving. They do not need replanting. They do not need new seed packets every April. They do not need you to start over. Plant them once this May and eat from them for the rest of your life.