Congratulations to my friend Ronny Staquet who recently won a prestigious prize for his efforts in popularising Hablitzia at the Fête des Plantes de Printemps at Château de […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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My oldest Hablitzia, already vigorous in 2004!
Cleaning out my office and I found a local newspaper article about an open day in my garden almost 13 years ago (August 2004) with a picture of […]
Forest Gardening / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Naturalised Allium victorialis in Hardanger, Norway
In June 2009, I was shown the only naturalised stand of victory onion (Allium victorialis) in south western Norway (away from Lofoten Islands – Vestvågøy – and Bodø […]
Food / Forcing / Perennial vegetables
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Forced blanched Udo Baccalao
Inspired by my visit in the spring to Tokyo’s underground blanching of Udo (Aralia cordata), see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=8299, I dug up a couple of roots in the autumn for indoors […]
Berries / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Foraging / Forcing / Fruit / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Root crops / Salad / Seed sprouts / Snow / Sprouts / Vegetarian
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Extreme winter record salad
Proof one more time that north is best for growing a diversity of tasty salad greens ;) Presenting (and claiming) my new world winter salad diversity record, a […]
Blanching / Dandelions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Seed sprouts / Sprouts / Winter shoots
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Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1
Last night (8th March 2017) was the first of two events I had been asked to take part in celebrating the diversity of vegetables that our area has […]
Brassica / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Purple-veined variegated perennial Homanics kale!
I found this beauty in my cellar at the weekend…it wasn’t variegated during the summer, but in the cool low light conditions of my cellar this is the […]
Coastal plants / Halophytes / Perennial vegetables
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The perennial self-fertilising vegetable gardens of Langeland
Having completed my course at Naturplanteskolen and guided walk at Grennessminde in August 2016, I was “rewarded” by being taken on a botanical excursion to the island Langeland. […]
Perennial vegetables
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Directions for the culture of sea kale from 1799!
In my book, I wrote the following in my account about Sea Kale (Crambe maritima): “Domestication of sea kale (in the UK) seems largely to have been due […]
Brassica / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial kales in my loft room
Rooted cuttings of some 10 perennial kales overwintering in my unheated loft room (it can freeze up here, but not this year) Post Views: 88
Perennial vegetables
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Encounters with Angelica in Japan!
The genus Angelica has about 80 species distributed throughout the Northern hemisphere, of which around 25 are found in Japan. Around the world various Angelica species have been […]
Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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A sour woodland edimental
Another great edimental for the woodland garden is this form of common wood sorrel (gjøksyre)….received as Oxalis acetosella “Rosea” although I wouldn’t describe the colour as pink…sadly, it […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Wild Japanese Katakuri #1
My trip to Japan in early spring 2016 was perfectly timed to witness one of the wonders of the Japanese spring, the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum; Japanese: […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables / Wild Edibles
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More seed for stratifying
An early Xmas present from Alexander Naumenko! Thanks! Several new very interesting Alliums, Taraxacum lilacinum (lilac flowered dandelion…hope they will germinate!), Hyssopus tianschanicus, Tragopogon capitatus, Angelica brevicaulis and […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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My first wild Hablitzia accession
10 years ago in July 2006, I received an email seed request from a Sergey Banketov in the Caucasus. I don’t usually trade seed in summer, but he […]
Forcing / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots
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Udo roots for forcing
Inspired by my visit in the spring to Tokyo’s underground blanching of Udo (Aralia cordata), see link below, I dug up a couple of roots that I will […]
Fjord views / Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Winter Udo
My Udo (Aralia cordata) has crushed two blackcurrant bushes…. Post Views: 142
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Nutritional analysis of Hablitzia
My article “Caucasian spinach: the unknown woodlander” was published by Permaculture Magazine 9 years ago in 2007 (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=1984 and also my book Around the World in 80 […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables / Regenerative culture
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Findhorn’s Edible Woodland Garden
I arrived at Findhorn by bike – http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=8060 – from Dyke on 14th September 2016, where I had been staying at Teeny Weeny Farm! Ariane Burgess had attended my talk […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Udo farm visit in Tokyo
Here’s an album of my own pictures from our visit to Tokyo’s underground Udo forcing holes… More about Udo (Aralia cordata) on my web site www.edimentals.com Thanks again […]
Perennial vegetables
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Underground Udo video
To see an underground Udo (Aralia cordata) farm has long been a dream. My dream was finally fulfilled this spring and below you can see a short video […]
Perennial vegetables
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Harvesting before the frost penetrates too deep
The last 3 days, I’ve been harvesting as quickly as I can as it’s very cold for the time of year (max. about -6C today) and the earth […]
Brassica / Perennial vegetables
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Taunton Deane Perennial Kale video
A short video of the wonderful Taunton Deane perennial kale at Knighthayes Court in Devon, UK where I visited on May 13th 2016. See more pictures here: http://www.edimentals.com/pictures/index.php?/category/112 Other pages […]
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Taking cuttings of perennial kales
Some pictures of my beds of perennial kales. I took cuttings of 6 or 7 varieties today in case the mother plants don’t make it through the winter. […]