Like Sherpa onion or Nepalese onion Allium wallichii, which features in my book Around the World in 80 plants, chiugok (small bird’s garlic) as Allium macrantum is known […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Early July Veg
Here are some of the vegetables we’re currently using.From left to right: Common sow thistle / haredylle (Sonchus oleraceus) will be in most meals from now to SeptemberParsley […]
Perennial vegetables
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Early June Greens and Whites
Presenting some of this week’s perennial greens and, in the case of the blanched Hosta shoots, perennial whites!Hosta sieboldiana with ramsons / ramsløk (Allium ursinum) and giant bellflower […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Tonight’s pizza greens
were….Purple sprouting perennial kale broccolis Allium scorodoprasum leeks (bendelløk)Good king henry / stolt henrik flower buds Post Views: 127
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Fasciated dandelion- udo- sea kale salad
Not something I can make very often as I don’t find fasciated dandelions very often! A simple salad was put together, made fascinating with a fasciated dandelion.The blanched […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Today’s permaveggies
Presenting the 14 permaveggies used in tonight’s Indian dal! Here are the ingredients:Around the outside: Blanched sea kale / strandkål (Crambe maritima)Stinging nettle / brennesle (Urtica dioica)Top left […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial Baccalao with victory onions
We occasionally eat wild fish and are particularly fond of baccalao (dried salted cod from Lofoten).These were yesterday’s ingredients (list at the bottom): Top left and clockwise: Dandichokes […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Habby Mac-Cheese 2021
A wonderful birthday dinner again this week!As is the tradition since I left home, my birthday dinner has been Macaroni Cheese with rhubarb crumble for dessert. Mac Cheese […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Unintentional presents
Yesterday was my birthday and the best presents were all unintended as birthday presents:1. Allium victorialis from a large stand that has naturalised from a farm garden in […]
Forcing / Perennial vegetables
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Does udo resprout
During a webinar recently somebody asked me recently whether udo (Aralia cordata) resprouts in the same season if one cuts it. I said I would give photographic evidence […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial veggie saag and stuffed blue congo paratha
The favourite food of an average Englishman of my generation is Indian and I’m no exception. Yesterday I was inspired to make perennial veggie aloo saag and stuffed […]
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Habby pea soup
Yesterday was the first day above 10C this year and my Hablitzia (Caucasian spinach) plants are really growing fast. We used those in the picture together with thinned […]
Dandelions / Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Dissected dandelion bud
We’ve been eating dandelions for lunch every day now for almost 3 months from the roots dug in the autumn and there’s still loads (see my post in […]
Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Hail Hablitzia
Yesterday it hailed on my collection of Hablitzia plants…and today they were covered in a white blanket: Post Views: 139
Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Forced March Perennial Greens
In order to lengthen the season for harvesting of perennial vegetables, I dig up roots of a selection in the autumn and plant them in garden soil in […]
Dandelions / Macrogreens / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots
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Macrogreens and the first Dandelion Flowers
MACROGREENSI harvested dandelion roots in November and stored them in the cellar until mid-January when we moved it into the living room and the first leaves were harvested […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Cold Man’s Beard
A few day’s later, following on from my post on Old Man’s Beard! https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=27221 Post Views: 102
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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First seed saved for 2021
You’ll find old man’s beard or tysk klematis in Norwegian (Clematis vitalba) in Italian foraging books as the young cooked shoots are popular there in spring (they shouldn’t […]
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Last or First?
A few days ago I harvested my yacon (Polymnia edulis). My season outside is a bit too short to get good yields outside, so I grow in large […]
Perennial vegetables
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Perennial puha, Sonchus kirkii in Malvik #2
In 2017, I was able to grow Sonchus kirkii, the original perennial sow thistle (puha or rauriki), an important traditional vegetable of the Maori which I’d long wanted […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Scorzonera harvest
This is the harvest of 6 varieties of Scorzonera at our community garden (Væres Venner) last week two years after I sowed seed (I was surprised by an […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Medicinal plants / Perennial vegetables
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Mountain Gardens tour with Joe Hollis
A year ago, on 22nd September 2019, Joe Hollis had invited me to do a walk and talk with him at his Mountain Gardens in North Carolina! Before […]
Edimentals / Food / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Nettle-leaved bellflower
Nettle-leaved bellflower (Campanula trachelium) has a more southwesterly distribution in Europe than my favourite giant bellflower C. latifolia and replaces the latter species in the south of England, […]
Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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A Taste of Myoga
After many years trying, I finally had a taste of home grown myoga or Japanese ginger (Zingiber mioga) this week!I think it was in the garden of my […]
Perennial vegetables
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Pond Bed North Upgrade
I’ve been busy planting up a bed that I’ve been renovating. It’s part of a bed I’ve called “Pond Bed North” since I constructed it in the late […]