Are all sprouts an annual crop?

[Hyacinth]

Last year I bought, at a plant sale, 2 sprout plants - unlabelled. I'd not grown sprouts before and they cropped well. When it came time to cut them down, this I did, but left the roots in, intending to dig them out later...but I never did. New growth started & I thought that the leaf pickings might be tasty. But I never got round to picking them. These 2 plants are now sturdy plants and sprouts are forming 8) Is this usual?

btw....at the same plant sale this year I bought 2 more plantlets from the same source....might be on a winner here ;D

[Hyacinth]

[calendula]

no, they are all biennial (this might exclude the modern hybrids as they have been so cultivated that the 'wild' has gone from them - brassica oleracea = sprouts = wild cabbage), so being biennial this explains their nature to try and keep cropping into the second year

[Hyacinth]

MANY THANKS for that explanation......just didn't know.....now then...anyhing else that resurrects itself that I've been digging up after a season? ;D

[tim]

Well I never!

Rotation?