The Less than Extreme Salad Man has been in action with the year’s multi-species salad! A few hours before the polar low storm hit and snow covered the […]
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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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Hosta icicles (yuki urui)
The other day I discovered a long suffering Hosta that I’d covered with a bucket in the spring. Surprisingly the blanched shoots were in good condition despite the […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Salad
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American Spikenard salad
Last night, I tried American spikenard (American Udo) or Aralia racemosa for the first time! Although Aralia cordata (Japanese Udo) had a hint of bitterness after blanching, the […]
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Udo salad
Walking past the Udo (Aralia cordata) patch yesterday morning I noticed that the shoots had outgrown their bucket and, as usual, had thrown the bucket down the hill, […]
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permakulturplanter.no visit!
A great visit from my old friends Irja Frydenlund and Benjamin Bro-Jørgensen from Tingvoll and permakulturplanter.no popped in this afternoon with little Asimina and Ainora (what’s that backwards?!!). […]
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Perennial veg pakora
Pakora or bhaji is a popular snack in Indian and surrounding countries. Growing up in the UK, vegetarian Indian food has always been part of my diet since […]
Garden tour / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Oslo Botanical Garden, Tøyen, spring edibles
On a break in my journey from Trondheim to Hvaler I had a few hours edible-spotting in the Oslo Botanical Garden (full of – not allowed to pick […]
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Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!
Thank you Emilia Rekestad for putting last week’s webinar on winter perennial vegetables up more permanently on youtube. Emilia first introduces the webinar and the polyculture project through […]
Food / Invasive plants / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Noxious pizza
I’m still alive and well after last night’s noxious pizza. I’ll explain. I used pea shoots from the living room, onion, Allium cernuum shoots harvested from the garden […]
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Wild “Asparagus” for the king and queen’s 80th birthdays?
I noticed in a recent number (3/2017) of the Norwegian Useful Plants excellent magazine “Sopp og Nyttevekster” a picture on page 41 (picture) accompanying a recipe for “Spring […]
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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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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 […]
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Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1
Last night (8th March 2017) was the first of two events I had been asked to take part in celebrating the diversity of vegetables that our area has […]
Brassica / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Purple-veined variegated perennial Homanics kale!
I found this beauty in my cellar at the weekend…it wasn’t variegated during the summer, but in the cool low light conditions of my cellar this is the […]
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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 […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Nutritional analysis of Hablitzia
My article “Caucasian spinach: the unknown woodlander” was published by Permaculture Magazine 9 years ago in 2007 (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=1984 and also my book Around the World in 80 […]
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Udo farm visit in Tokyo
Here’s an album of my own pictures from our visit to Tokyo’s underground Udo forcing holes… More about Udo (Aralia cordata) on my web site www.edimentals.com Thanks again […]
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Homegrown watermelon berries
Streptopus amplexifolius is a shade loving woodland plant known, amongst others, as twistedstalk, wild cucumber and watermelon berry and has an extensive wild range including North America, Europe […]
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Korean Aster on Edimentals
Two years ago, I posted this picture of Aster scaber, commonly wild foraged in Korea and nowadays cultivated for markets in Korea and exported dried to Koreans in […]
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 […]