Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) has self-sowed numerous times in my garden but only up to now on cultivated beds with naked soil. Now for the first […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Walking’s not healthy for Habbies
I’ve been growing Hablitzia tamnoides, affectionately known as Habbies, for over 20 years and this is the first registered mortality. On a shallow bed under a birch tree, […]
Botanical Garden / Community Garden / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Garden visits with Fosen students
It’s always a pleasure to spend time with students from the Fosen Folk High School from the other side of the fjord. Despite the dreadful weather, we visited […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Megacarpaea delavayi
This is one of the most exclusive vegetables and finest edimentals out there, Megacarpaea delavayi (Brassicaceae), a plant found in the high mountains of southwest China at high […]
Perennial vegetables
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Fairchild’s Experiments with Udo from 1914!
Yesterday, I introduced Agricultural Explorer David Fairchild who, inspired from visiting Japan, was determined to try to introduce udo (Aralia cordata) and wrote an interesting paper 120 years […]
Perennial vegetables
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Udo introduction to the US with cultivation instructions (1903)
I stumbled upon this interesting US Department of Agriculture Bulletin from 1903 by David Fairchild, who calls himself Agricultural Explorer, entitled “Three New Plant Introductions from Japan”. There […]
Food / Fungi / Perennial vegetables
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Wild Enoki, Oca and Hablitzia scrambled eggs
Wild Enoki, Oca, Hablitzia, wild buckwheat sprouts, Allium nutans with dandelion, garlic chilis mixed with scrambled eggs for a delicious home grown and foraged lunch!Enoki is one of […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Seven Vegetable Dishes
In Denmark’s major ethnobotanical work, Brøndegaard’s Folk og Flora (1978-80), ground elder (skvalderkål; Aegopodium podograria) is one of seven different greens used in a once common health-bringing springtime […]
Dandelions / Perennial vegetables
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Geeking out with Dandelions
Earlier this year I bought the Field Handbook to British and Irish Dandelions by A.J. Richard which contains descriptions, photos and keys for all 239 known UK and […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Grape leaves
I love it when edible plants find their own place in my garden! I planted a hardy grape species Vitis coignetiae from the Far East including Japan, Korea […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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Flowering Aster scaber
September is the month when several Asteraceae are in flower including one of my favourite perennial vegetables and edimentals Aster scaber (yes, I know it’s officially Doellingeria scabra) […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Sochan tops Mediterranean style
Thanks to Alan Bergo (@foragerchef) for reminding me to try sochan tops. This is Rudbeckia laciniata (cut-leafed coneflower) which in the double form is one of the most […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Persian Shallot harvest
One of my favourite perennial onions are persian shallots, Allium stipitatum and I’ve blogged about them several times in the past: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=persian+shallotThis is one of the earliest onions to […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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42 Pakora veggies
Here are this week’s largely perennial veggies made into a delicious and varied 42 variety pakora!Picture 1 below (Roughly from left to right): Saxifraga pensylvanica (swamp saxifrage); Malva […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetables
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St. George’s, ramsons and red-leaved dandelion pasta with Hosta icicles
Earlier this week with little time to make dinner this was the unlikely result: St. George’s, ramsons and red-leaved dandelion leftover pasta with Hosta icicles in Japanese dip. Earlier […]
Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Bitter baccalao: roots and greens
No, I’m not vegan and have never been, I’ve been lactovegetarian with the occasional wild fish over 40 years. We always have some Norwegian dried cod (baccalao) at […]
Food / Invasive plants / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Some odds and ends this week in Malvik
The best of vegetables ready to harvest this week: blanched sea kale (Crambe maritima), blanched lovage (Levisticum officinale) and nettles (Urtica dioica)! Delicious. IT’S DANDINOODLE TIME HERE IN […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Around the World in 80 Mac-Cheese
Many thanks to all who sent birthday wishes as I transitioned to become a bonafide pensioner As usual, my celebration dinner was a green macaroni cheese (https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=macaroni), this […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Record warmth and record early shoots
With record temperatures recorded in this area at the moment after a mild winter when all the cold spells coincided with good snow cover means that the soil […]
Perennial vegetables / Propagation
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Myoga shoots and propagation
I wrote about harvesting and eating myoga (Japanese ginger / Zingiber mioga) here in Malvik for the first time in 2020 here: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=26293 It was grown in a […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Extreme 66 ingredient November Salad
The Extreme Salad Man has been quiet recently. He was inspired to make this 5th November salad by a 10 year old Facebook memory of a salad he […]
Biannuals / Perennial vegetables
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Unusual October veg
A few unusual vegetables this October from the Edible Garden and House:1. I’ve been trialling around 20 different chicories this year from seed from the German seed bank […]
Bulbils / Perennial vegetables
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Large forms of Alpine Bistort
Alpine bistort or harerug in Norwegian (Bistorta vivipara syn Persicaria vivipara or Polygonum viviparum) is a common plant here in Norway and the only wild plant apart from […]
Edientomental / Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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Dystaenia heaven
Along with many members of the Apiaceae (carrot family / umbellifers) the flowers of Dystaenia takesimana (Giant Ulleung Celery) are heaven for pollinators like hoverflies (blomsterfluer).These great edi-ento-mentals […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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The 2021 Selfies with a 20-year old Udo
This year’s udo (Aralia cordata) selfie pictures, probably the highest ever with a flowering spike way above my head. I harvested about 1/3 of the shoots in the […]