There’s no better gift than a few onions: Allium cernuum / Nodding onion / Chicago Onion / Prærieløk Post Views: 126
Fibre plant / Forest Gardening / Leafy greens / Perennials
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Himalayan Nettle
Girardinia diversifolia (Himalayan Nettle; Allo) is a potentially useful plant for the forest garden. The young leaves, inflorescenses and seeds (roasted) are eaten). It’s a large clump-formimg perennial […]
Fungi
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Ink caps / Blekksopp coming into season
Passed these on my bike ride to work today…will stop off to pick them for dinner on the way home…. Post Views: 109
Berries
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Drying Worcesterberries and Saskatoons
There’s been an almost complete failure of apples and plums this year (this has never happened before in my 35 years here). I can’t possibly start buying fruit […]
Legumes / Root crops
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Earthnut Pea / Lathyrus tuberosus
This is a new variety of Earthnut pea (Lathyrus tuberosus) which germinated from Danish seed I was given by NO Crossland of Danish Seed Savers (frøsamlerne). I seem […]
Dandelions / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennials / Tempura / Tubers
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Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her […]
Berries / Forest Gardening
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Watermelon berry
Streptopus amplexifolius has been used for its spring shoots that supposedly taste of cucumber and the ripe berries that give the plant one of its names, watermelon berry….A […]
Spice
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Homegrown Golpar
Saving seed for my own homegrown Golpar, a great spice made from the seed of Heracleum species (Hogweeds/bjørnekjeks) including Giant Hogweed and Tromsøpalm. Post Views: 130
Berries
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Black raspberry
Black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) perfectly complements my red raspberries here as the one finishes as the other begins! I had my first blacks today (14th September 2015), seed […]
Onions
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New Alliums
Some new Alliums in flower for the first time… The first 4 are a nice form of Allium wallichii, then an Allium flavum with large inflorescences and finally […]
GMO
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Alan Kapuler on GMOs
https://youtu.be/UIxGC5J1ofM Wonderful, must see for anyone interested in GMOs and plant breeding! What an amazing, intelligent and warm human being Kapuler is… I was so fortunate to spend […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Talks
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Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015
Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn (Summerhouse and Garden magazine) in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015….. During the talk it was decided that edimentals should be known […]
Talks
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Workshops with the extreme salad man in Iceland in early September!
Two workshops in Iceland on my way back from the US…!! 5th September – 1pm to 5pm Sal Garðyrkjufélags Íslands, Síðumúla 1, Reykjvaík “Ætar plöntur með Stephen Barstow […]
Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials
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Japanese woodlanders
I love these weird and wonderful hard to get woodlanders from Japan and elsewhere in the Far East, many of which are edible. Here are three that […]
Climbers / Perennials / Permaculture / Trees
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Perennials vs. annuals
Picture taken by journalist Heidi Løkken in my garden this week showing my straggling tree climbing Hablitzia together with a French dandelion cultivar “Vert de Montmagny Ameliore”. Before […]
Talks
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Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend talks in October
I’m talking on both days at the Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend at the National Trust Property Croome Court in Worcestershire, England on 3rd-4th October. See the […]
Book reviews
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Even Fred Blogs loves my book
I’m now expecting mega-sales ;) This is from a Facebook exchange :) Post Views: 115
Perennials / Tubers
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More edible companions
Hosta sieboldiana “Mira” (the leaves are wavy edged) and an unknown Lilium Post Views: 144
Talks
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Poster for my Portland, Oregon talks
Thanks to Pamela Melcher for all the hard work organising all this! Please share! [gview file=”http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Stephen-Barstow-Poster-Color-5.pdf”] Post Views: 178
Annuals / Biannuals / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Broad beans and chicory
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Perennials / Root crops
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Giant Perennial Buckwheat and Skirret
I had no idea that perennial buckwheat (Fagopyrum acutatum syn. F. dibotrys) and skirret (Sium sisarum) could be 2.5m ( 8 feet) tall! Probably a result of our […]