I’ve changed full circle from the days when I fought against the dandelions to nowadays actively encouraging them in my perennial beds as they will be my most […]
Dandelions / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelions in pink, white and yellow
16th May 2024: Dandelions in white, pink and (self-sowed) yellow in the Asian part of the World Garden at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim. I planted […]
Dandelions / Food
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Dandelion scape, bud and flower omelette
Sorry, but I ceremoniously sacrificed all the dandelion flowers, buds and scapes for a delicious omelette today…and what a wonderful view they had on their last day on […]
Dandelions / Seed
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Freedom for Palestine
The year’s first seed is as usual dandelion (løvetann), but this one is extra early as it was one of those forced indoors for the leaves.The dandelion symbolises […]
Dandelions / Music
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Doug Clifford eats dandelion
A curiosity in an occasional series “The famous eat dandelions”: From the documentary Creedence at the Royal Albert Hall where they played in 1970, drummer Doug Clifford asks […]
Dandelions
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Moss-leaved dandelion = Taraxacum tortilobum
I’ve been trying to find out what species the legendary moss-leaved dandelion (as featured in my book) and some other cultivated varieties actually are. I took the series […]
Dandelions / Salad
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Start of the 2023 Dandelion season
The first wave of dandelions ready for 2023! We will use them with lunch every day for the rest of the winter! Post Views: 218
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dandelions
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Dandelion shoots in the living room
This bucket was planted in the autumn and stored until now in the cellar. Within a few days of bringing it up into my living room there are […]
Dandelions / Oxalis tuberosa / Root crops / Tubers
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Tubers and roots; December 2020
A gallery of pictures of tubers and roots which were harvested in December when I had a blog-free month! Post Views: 126
Dandelions / Edible flowers / Edientomental / Edimentals
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Swirly Late Dandelion
“WHY IS IT SWIRLY WHEN IT’S LATE?” (MMA, 2020)Probably the last dandelion to flower in the edible garden in 2020! The temperature didn’t drop below +12C last night, […]
Dandelions / Fasciation
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Fascinating fasciated dandelions
I was working at Væres Venner Community Garden yesterday and noticed a deformed (fasciated) dandelion flower. This can be caused by a range of factors including random genetic […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables
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Japanese white dandelion
My Taraxacum albidum is looking good at the moment!The seed for this came from the Scottish Rock Gardening Club seed list 2016/17 (SRGC3660) and I planted two plants […]
Brassica / Dandelions / Edible flowers / Ferns / Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65
To celebrate my 65th we made indian pakora with 65 (or so) different perennial vegetables. Going for a new title, this time EPM (Extreme Pakora Man)! Any better? […]
Dandelions / Perennial vegetables
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The mossy dandelion
It’s 100 years since Vilmorin-Andrieux’s The Vegetable Garden: Illustrations, descriptions, and culture of the garden vegetables of cold and temperate climates was published! The plant I most associate […]
Blanching / Dandelions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Winter shoots
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Sprouts in the cellar
A much warmer winter than normal and I returned home to well developed blanched dandelion shoots in the cellar together with horseradish shoots and the sweet cicely shoots […]
Dandelions / Natural Rubber
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The Dandelion Cycle Tyre: Cycling on Dandelions!
At last, it’s a reality!! Since I heard that Continental were testing the world’s first car tyre with Taraxagum two years ago, I’ve included a picture of the […]
Dandelions
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White flowered dandelion #2
I got this one as Taraxacum albidum from the Swedish gardening organisation’s seed list, but it’s very different from Taraxacum albidum (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=22302). Notice that the flower petals are […]
Dandelions
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Taraxacum albidum: Japanese White Dandelion
Taraxacum albidum from Japan is flowering! The leaves are more bitter than Taraxacum pseudoroseum, but pleasantly bitter! Post Views: 205
Bees / Birds / Dandelions / Edible flowers / Insects / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds
Before my D.A. (Dandelion Awakening) I would religiously remove and cut down as many dandelions as I could, but nowadays my garden perennial beds are full of them. […]
Dandelions / Foraging / Forcing / Perennial vegetables
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More blanched dandelions
More dandelions brought up from the (dark) cellar, ready to eat! These roots were just stored in damp autumn leaves! Post Views: 95
Blanching / Dandelions / Foraging / Forcing / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelion harvest
Dandelions are one of my favourite winter perennial vegetables. During the summer, wild dandelions sow themselves on my cultivated beds….one of the advantages of having too much open […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers
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Taraxacum atrata
Potted on seedlings of Taraxacum atrata….I thought this was a new (for me) white flowered dandelion, but it turns out this is a synonym of T. pamiricum which […]