Last night, the wonderful folks of Ottawa had what was advertised as “A night with Stephen Barstow”. A great communicative crowd too and thanks for making my book […]
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 […]
grain / House plants / Root crops / Tubers
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Jicama-ahipa à la Henry quinoa
One of the culinary highlights of the year is the annual Jicama (hee-ka-ma) meal….if you’ve never eaten yam beans or Jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus), you haven’t lived! I grow […]
Root crops
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Supermarket Tiger Nuts
I just came across the first picture below that I took of tiger nuts on sale in Japan on my visit in spring 2016…Super Food…there are 3 types: […]
Food / Perennials / Root crops / Tubers
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Soba stir-fried cellar vegetables
Last night’s chinese stir-fried vegetables, from cellar and store, served with soba! Now using more tubers than greens… Achira carrot chicory Chili GarlicOca onionperennial kale turnip Ulluco Jerusalem artichoke and winter chantarelle Post Views: 120
Root crops / Tubers
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Yam daisy aboriginal tuber cultivation
Yam daisy or murnong (Microseris lanceolata) from Australia, harvest outside in Malvik on 12th November 2011. I’ve had lower yields of other crops! Needs a bit of selection, […]
Edimentals / Root crops / Tubers
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Rice lily
The smallest of the tubers in yesterday’s dinner (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=9577) was so-called rice lily or riceroot (Fritillaria camschatensis), small (but many) sweet tasting tubers that often lie right […]
Root crops / Tubers
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Forcing Andean root crops for winter greens
I was potting up ocas and ullucos outside this afternoon (to force for winter greens) and there was a sudden hail storm . The pots are brought inside […]
Root crops / Tubers
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..and end of the year Yacon harvest
Yacon (Polymnia edulis/Smallanthus sonchifolius) also gives higher yields when grown on inside until the end of the year in a large pot; however, it is much less day […]
Root crops / Tubers
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End of the year Andes in Malvik tuber harvest
As the psychedelic (colour not effect) Andean tubers Oca (Oxalis tuberosa), Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus) and Achira (Canna edulis) benefit from a longer season than I can give them […]
Root crops
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Harvesting thistle root!
Forgot to harvest my tuberous thistles, Cirsium tuberosum…managed to find a couple now… See also an older blog about them here http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=2461 Post Views: 289
Biannuals / Root crops
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Late or early?
Sowing carrots at Xmas…late or early? They won’t germinate until April here, good to get ahead of the spring jobs! HAPPY CARROT-TIDE (Carrotmas?) everyone and (in Norwegian) GOD […]
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: […]
Food / Root crops
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Skirret-chufa stir-fry
Tonight’s dinner, skirret-chufa stir-fry. Post Views: 87
Perennial vegetable shoots / Root crops
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Pepper-root
“Pepperrot” is the Norwegian name, also known as common man’s wasabi, it’s horseradish, Armoracia rusticana, a multipurpose, perennial, high yield, very hardy vegetable used not only for the […]
Biannuals / Perennials / Root crops
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Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon/Chorogi/Madeira vine tuber harvest
Harvested roots of Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon (Tragopogon pratensis), an introduced weed in my garden. It is related to salsify and scorzonera – I eat the roots and force a few for […]
Root crops
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Greater pignut
Greater pignut or earth chestnut (Bunium bulbocastanum) is an interesting perennial hardy root vegetable in the carrot family (Apiaceae) that I had in my garden for 10-15 years. […]
garlic topsets / Root crops
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Planting Garlic
I finally got the garlic planted today after a week of rain and temperatures up to +10C had melted most of the frost in the soil! Here are […]
Root crops / Tubers
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My first Yacon flower after 10 years of trying!
I also finally flowered a yacon here! I’ve been growing Yacon now for 10 years, my first harvest here was on 28th October 2006 and I was pleased […]
Oca / Root crops
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Indoors Oca plantation
I’m lucky that I have plenty of space in the house..so this unheated room is from now until Xmas harvest an indoor Andean root crop plantation – the […]
Anredera cordifolia / Food / Root crops / Vegetarian
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3 Basellaceae for Xmas dinner
For Xmas dinner 2007, I made nut roast with roast vegetables including two members of the Basellaceae family (known as the Madeira vine family). It contains the following […]
Oca / Root crops / Tubers
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Oca and Ulluco safely inside!
With an even heavier frost threatened, I moved all my Ocas and Ullucos inside….but, until I clear space (seeds drying everywhere) they are blocking the entrance to my […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Root crops / walkabout onion / weeds
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A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!
Mostly annuals and biannuals tonight, but still 1/3 of the 41 ingredients are perennials! Post Views: 136
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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The tallest skirret challenge
So, is this a world record, Guinness? Oh, sorry you can’t even ID a dandelion can you, so no point asking you ;) My claim is at 2.3m. […]
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Adenophora transforms into invasive bellflower
On the corner of a bed I planted Adenophora “Amethyst” over 10 years ago. I remember that creeping bellflower / ugressklokke (Campanula rapunculoides) was growing in the grass […]