We spent 13 years building an abundant fruit forest, annual veggie beds, perennial medicinal herbs, and a healthy mixed hardwood-coniferous forest and now we’ve sold our property to the next stewards so that we can begin a new homesteading project in Vermont closer to our best friends and their kids.
Don’t worry - we plan to keep this website up and running so that our customers can reference what we’ve written about our plants!
We’ll let you know once we re-start a farm in Vermont!
Good King Henry
Good King Henry
Blitum (Chenopodium) bonus-henricus
Hardy perennial
Edible perennial
Tolerates shade
NE
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Good King Henry is a perennial vegetable closely related to spinach that produces delicious green shoots in early spring and succulent leaves in late spring and summer. In a partly shady location with moist and rich soil in summer, you’ll have more greens than if you had planted spinach, and a plant that gets bigger instead of dying each year. Although some like it raw, I find the uncooked leaves too astringent. Cooked like spinach, on the other hand, they are delectable.
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