Plenty of snow still in the garden..a long time before I start digging ;)
Daily Archives: March 6, 2016
Forced ostrich wings…
The Norwegian name for ostrich fern is strutseving (ostrich wing) and fiddleheads are now appearing in my kitchen window, two months before they will be out in the garden. It’s easy to dig up some roots of this spreading species in the autumn. I left them outside in these pots until about a month ago. I’m leaving these first relatively small fiddleheads to grow, so as not to kill the roots (they will be planted back in the garden to recover). 
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, just look at the volume of salad onion I get from this pot, forced in a cool room at about 10C :)
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 made it through the colder weather afterwards. Therefore, I dug them up and transplanted into pots and have had them in my cool but frost free porch ever since. They haven’t grown much, but it seems I dug up some bulbs of Allium paradoxum with them as they are growing away well, so I will be eating them in tonight’s salad!