One of many ways to use onions…here’s a garlic scape used as an armband to keep “wild” animals, trolls and mosquitos away…perhaps? Post Views: 137
Allium cernuum / Onions / Slug
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Slimax maximus
Mr. Leopard Slug (S)Limax maximus admiring my Allium cernuum “Pink Giant” Post Views: 104
Onions
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Sherpa basil pesto
Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii) and basil pesto for tonight’s dinner! Delicious! I’ve been growing basil in my office at work since I was a student in Edinburgh in […]
Onions
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Allium humile
I call Allium humile (syn A. nivale) the snowy onion, and is my favourite spring flowering Allium! I saw it flowering first in the Tromsø Botanical Garden and […]
Onions / Winter shoots
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Forced Japanese Chives
One of the perennials I’m forcing indoors this winter is Allium schoenoprasum var yezomonticola, which I call Japanese Chives / japansk-gressløk. It’s much more productive than common chives, […]
Climbers / Onions / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Hablitzia and the few-flowered leeks
In December’s very mild weather there was mass germination of Hablitzia around my oldest plant next to the house. This has happened before, but none of the seedlings […]
Onions / Perennials
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Extending the perennial veggie season with nodding onion
Allium cernuum (Nodding onion / Prærieløk) is one of the few plants that can be harvested in winter if one can find then under the snow! An important […]
Onions / Snow
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More after dark snow scenes
There was quite a heavy fall of snow again last night, so here’s a few more shots while it’s looking at its best (I’m at work when it’s […]
Onions / Perennials / Seed / Sprouts
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Hungry gap sprouts
I moved 10 buckets of roots and stratifying seeds of edible perennials for sprouting and eating before the spring greens come on tap…filling the hungry gap. These have […]
Malvik / Onions
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20 Runner Beans is better than nothing!
This is about the total yield of my runner beans this cool summer, but the first garlic (Alexandra) looks promising! Post Views: 88
Onions / Perennials
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Gift onions…
There’s no better gift than a few onions: Allium cernuum / Nodding onion / Chicago Onion / Prærieløk Post Views: 91
Dandelions / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennials / Tempura / Tubers
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Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her […]
Onions
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New Alliums
Some new Alliums in flower for the first time… The first 4 are a nice form of Allium wallichii, then an Allium flavum with large inflorescences and finally […]
Edible flowers / Onions / Perennials
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Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus (from seed sown in 2004) is a good midsummer flowering species, here together with Allium scorodoprasum, possibly the Vikings’ garlic (garlic = geirlauk which means “spear […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennials
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Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”
There are many great edimental forms of Allium cernuum / Nodding onion or Chicago onion. I call this one “Dark Scape” because of the dark flower shoot / […]
Onions / Ornamentals / Perennials / Wild Edibles
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Allium victorialis diversity
Brynhild Mørkved has over the years collected forms of Allium victorialis from over it’s range – the Alps, Caucasus, Japan and the Kola peninsula in North West Russia. […]
Annuals / Edimentals / Onions / Perennials
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Tonight’s veggies; 24th June 2015
Allium nutans xsenescens, Stellaria media, Oregano (yellow leaved), Bay leaf, Campanula latifolia, Red streaked mustard greens, Asparagus, Malva moschata, Day lily buds, Crambe maritima, Rumex patientia, Rumex acetosa […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennials
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Tall onions
My Persian shallots are in flower. Here they are: More in these links: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=357 http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=893 http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=1407 Also in flower and even taller is Allium rosenbachianum Album (unknown edibility): […]
Food / Onions / Ornamentals / Perennials / Pesto
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A 230 onion pesto :)
A pesto with 230 different onions, served at lunch on Saturday (Allium) (grown and collected by me and prepared by Veronica and Rita) ;) Why? Because we could…. […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennials / Propagation
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Persian shallot seedlings!
So far so good, excellent germination outside of Persian shallot (Alium altissimum) – they had germinated some time ago and the young bulbs are already clearly visible. Planted […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennials
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Onion in escape attempt drama
Sometimes a letter addressed to me at 418 Malvikveien, gets delivered to my closest gardening neighbour Line Cathrin Ekseth at no. 481 ;-) This happened last week and I […]