I’m travelling today towards Northern Ireland where Edimentals is taking part in the BBC Radio 4 Gardener’s Question Time Summer Party at Mount Stewart (one of two visits […]
Seed / stratifying seed
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Stratifying cold frame
I was asked how I stratify so many different varieties of seed every year, still around 200-300, although until recently it was over 400. I then had two […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Sweet and sour stir-fry ingredients
Last night’s ingredients for a “sweet and sour” stir fry: (from left to right) – Allium cernuum (chicago onion / prærieløk), Crambe maritima (sea kale / strandkål) broccolis, […]
Garden tour
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Dutch visitors
Nice visit on Saturday from Saskia Wanders from Århus Andelsgård (Skien) and 3 Dutch friends, on the way to Lofoten! (with ostrich fern and Zanthoxylum piperitum (Japanese pepper). […]
Food / Perennial vegetables / weeds
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Ragged Jack kale and Siberian onion sourdough pizza
Last night’s veggie whole grain sourdough pizza had amongst a few other things Siberian onion Allium nutans shoots, Ragged Jack kale seedlings, Hablitzia tops and French sorrel Rumex […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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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 […]