After 3 weeks abstinence, it’s fantastic to be back foraging my garden :)
Tonight’s greens… and browns…and reds: Heracleum sibiricum, Alliaria petiolata, Hablitzia, Allium nutans, Taraxacum officinale “Vert de Montmagny”, Urtica dioica, Allium sativum, Capsicum annuum and Craterellus tubaeformis.
A Swedish PhD thesis concludes that there is large variation in the properties of horseradish found in plant collections in the Nordic countries (old naturalised and garden accessions). The diversity is large both in chemical content, form and appearance and DNA. This is somewhat surprising for a vegetatively propagated plant!
http://www.skogoglandskap.no/nyheter/2015/stor_genetisk_variasjon_i_nordisk_pepperrot
English thesis summary
http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/11629/
The latest Nordic Permaculture Magazine, out on Friday includes an article about:
“Permakulturhave (Permaculture Garden)
Høj diversitet (High diversity)
Højt mod nord (Far to the North)”
I wonder where that might be ;-)
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden