(Norsk forklaring nedenfor)Mauka (Mirabilis expansa) is a root vegetable grown, amongst others by the Maukallajta Indians in the Andes and I cultivated it for the first and only […]
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Parsnip men!
When my kids were young I made up a now legendary (in our family at least) story that I told them at bedtime about the Potato Men….potatoes that […]
Blanching / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots / Root crops / Salad
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The winter’s first salad shoot salad
The first winter shoots were harvested from the cellar today. It is almost totally dark in the cellar and currently about +6C. The blanched shoots in the picture […]
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Yacon and sunchoke harvest
This week, I harvested both yacon (grown in large pots and brought inside before the first frosts to grow on) and its close relative Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke), one […]
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Grated Turkish Rocket
Turkish rocket (Bunias orientalis) is a major invasive in Southern Norway. It is believed that it was spread to Europe in a big way in horse forage that followed […]
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My biggest parsnip?
Nothing compared to the monsters that can be grown in the UK, but this is just about the largest parsnip (pastinakk) I’ve harvested here. This is both due […]
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Habeetsia burgers
Habeetsia burgers or Bloody Habbyburgers? Cooked and ground beetroots mixed with 100% wholegrain barley and rye flour, eggs and cooked Hablitzia leaves and Johannes’ shallots (Allium x cornutum), […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / House plants / Root crops / Tubers
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Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant
I used to grow Oxalis triangularis, also known as the False Shamrock for the leaves and flowers. It’s also a perfect edimental house plant here as it likes […]
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Spring beauty time in the garden!
My spring beauties are flowering in the garden, appearing a little before wood anemones (hvitveis). The one I grow is Claytonia virginica and last summer I found this […]
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A visit to a Wasabi farm on the Izu peninsular in Japan
On 3rd April 2016 I was on an amazing study tour in Japan to witness first hand the cultivation of perennial vegetables. These are wild native species which […]
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Om Scorzonera: en hardfør helårs grønnsak
English speakers: See the summary at the bottom! Skorsonerrot, svartrot, jordskonnerot eller bondeasparges Scorzonera hispanica er en av de nye rotgrønnsakene som har kommet til Norge de siste årene. […]
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The perennial Rampions: shade tolerant edientomentals!
This is my third article published here this week, written as part of a 3-year project funded Landbruksdirektoratet (Norwegian Agriculture Agency), this time in English! As the last […]
Root crops / Winter shoots
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Long Horseradish root
We’re nearing the end of a very mild period with no frost in the ground, so I’ve been doing a lot of unseasonal work in the garden. Yesterday, […]
Blanching / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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The last roots
The last roots I harvest in the autumn are perennial vegetables for eating in the winter. I usually do this as late as possible and some years harvestng […]
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Queen Anne’s Thistle tubers
I accidentally pulled up one of my Queen Anne’s Thistles (Cirsium canum) and I discovered the tubers were quite like the tuberous thistle (Cirsium tuberosum) Post Views: 136
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Balloon flower
Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower), an important vegetable in the Far East, is just starting to flower in the garden. In Korea, it is called doraji. Its root, either dried […]
Bees / Edible flowers / Edientomental / Edimentals / Root crops / Uncategorized
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Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!
The most successful of the half dozen Phyteuma species I’ve tried in my garden has been a plant received as Phyteuma nigrum (syn. Phyteuma spicatum ssp nigrum), black […]
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Pursuing the Giant Root Chervil
I’ve had the turnip-rooted chervil, Chaerophyllum bulbosum, in my garden for maybe 20 years. It’s grown well, self-seeds, but the tubers rarely get bigger than a thumb nail. […]
Birds / Flower stalk / Food / Forest Gardening / Root crops
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The many faces of burdock
One of my favourite multi-purpose vegetables and one of my first unusual vegetables that I grew in my garden in the 80s was burdock or borre, more specifically […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Skirret harvest 2017
A good skirret (sukkerrot) harvest again…I don’t grow much as this perennial root and shoot vegetable is not totally hardy here. I have a few plants along the […]
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Oca on the move!
My oca (Oxalis tuberosa) plants (grown in large pots) have now been moved inside to be finished off for Xmas. A couple were still in flower!! It should […]
Edimentals / House plants / Root crops
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Tarua
Many years ago, I visited a Polynesian market in New Zealand and bought some tubers that were called Tarua in the South Pacific Islands…similar but different (and larger) […]
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Rapunsel
Phyteuma spicatum is the most popular bee plant in my garden at the moment and a great edimental….a very old root vegetable in Europe, mentioned already by Gerard’s […]
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Burdock in Japanese Supermarkets
I’ve grown burdock in my garden, originally mainly as a root vegetable, since the 80s when Japanese varieties such as Takinogawa Long and Watanabe Early began to appear […]