What happens to a vegetable plant after it's harvested? Will it sprout more the next year?
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Hi... Most vegetables are annuals. Some common annuals are beans, broccoli, mustard, cucumbers, dill, kohlrabi, peas, lettuce, bulb onions, squash, pumpkins. Some of these will grow sideshoots if you harvest the main stem. In fact, some varieties of broccoli are selected just for this tendency; you chop the initial main head off and they'll sprout side shoots for the rest of the season. Very handy.
Some vegetables are biennials. These include carrots, parsley, leeks, parsnips, and kale. They can be left in the garden over the winter and will start growing the next year, and then flower. This is nice if you want seeds, or if you want to see some really COOL flower stalks. Leeks and parsnips have very cool flowers, as does parsley. Leaving a few plants of each to the next year also lets you start having them self-seed. I never buy leek, parsley, or parsnip seed. I harvest and save my own. Note that some biennials are left for harvest through the winter, such as Kale, which is sweeter after a frost and can be harvested right through the snow.
Some vegetables are perennials in some areas. Tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers are perennials where there is no frost. They are grown as annuals in most of the USA and other temperate areas, though. I've got a pair of 3-year-old indoor paprika pepper plants in a sunny window in my house... fun to harvest in mid-winter.
A few vegetables are perennials in temperate areas, with some being truly hardy. Artichokes are tender perennials; they'll grow year after year in California. Asparagus, rhubarb, jerusalem artichokes, and some clumping green onions. Many herbs fall into this category, too.
If you take out the fruits it will grow but if you pull the plant out with roots it will die
Some of mine sprout more the same season - it really depends on the type of crop though
Some of that depends on where you live, but most vegetable plants are annuals and won't live year to year. You would be better off pulling up this years plants and starting over next year with new plants in my opinion. A few will regenerate a new plant if your winter isn't too cold however.
It depends on what type of vegetable it is. If it is a perennial like asparagus or rubbarb it will come back. If it's an annual like 95% of vegatables, then it has to be reseeded each year. A lot of times the plant will be left with a small amount of the vegatables left on the plants and when they dry out the seeds are dropped on the ground and start a new plant/plants next year.
I don't know of any vegetable plants that will come back again the next year.
You need to pull them out when they're done producing and plant new ones next year.
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