Presenting this year’s 34 rhizophantastic Xmas vegetables, all roasted in the oven, served as every year in the last 40+ with veggie nut roast, bedecked with the following seeds / bulbils: alpine bistort / harerug (Polygonum viviparum ), Himalayan balsam / kjempefringfrø (Impatiens glandulifera ), evening primrose / nattlys (Oenothera biennis ) and opium poppy (Papaver sominferum ).
Poppy, Himalayan balsam and evening primrose seed and alpine bistort bulbils
Assembling the nut roast
Solanum tuberosum (potato / potet); Blå kongo, Sarpo Mira, Sharpe’s Express, Troll, Knallfiffi, TrulsDaucus carota (carrot / gulrot)Oxalis tuberosa (oca: 2 varieties)Arctium lappa (burdock / borre)Scorzonera hispanica (Scorzonera / scorsonnerot eller svartrot)Tigridia pavonia (cacomitl)Pastinaca sativa (parsnip / pastinakk)Beta vulgaris (beetroot / rødbete); 2 varietiesTropaeolum tuberosum (mashua) Anredera cordifolia (Madeira vine)Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke / jordskokk : 2 varieties)Brassica rapa (turnip / nepe); 2 varietiesDahlia “Yellow sneezy” (Dahlia / georginer)Polymnia sonchifolia (yacon)Sagittaria latifolia (wapato)Allium cepa (onion / kepaløk)Allium cepa ascalonicum “Ørskog” (shallot / sjalott) Malus domestica (apple / eple)Allium altissimum and Allium stipitatum (Persian shallots / Persisk sjalott)Apium graveolens var rapaceum “Mars” (celeriac / sellerirot)Sium sisarum (skirret / sukkerrot)Dioscorea polystachya (Chinese yam, Cinnamon vine / kinesisk yams)Allium sativum (garlic / hvitløk)Cichorium intybus “Soncino” (root chicory / rotsikori)Cirsium canum (Queen Anne’s thistle / Dronning Annes tistel)
I made this salad for lunch today (ingredients below the pictures)
Wishing my mum a very happy 95th birthday with this album of pictures!
Mum, Pat Linton on holiday in Brighton
Mum and Dad’s wedding in 1953
Mum and Dad’s wedding in 1953 (Dad’s mum 2nd left and my Aunty Margaret far right)
Mum and her mum Kate on a QE2 cruise that she had won first prize on a raffle (to Gibraltar and Lisbon)
Mum and her mum Kate on a QE2 cruise that she had won first prize on a raffle (to Gibraltar and Lisbon)
Mum with sister Margaret in 1941
Friend Nellie Barton and mum at Butlin’s Holiday Camp
Friend Dorothy Wellman with mum in snow in 1954
Postcard from Durdle Door campsite in Dorset where we spent several summer holidays (camping)
Amusing postcard (last picture) sent to mum’s mum and dad at 42, Cranbury Rd, Eastleigh.
Causton’s Printers in Eastleigh in the 1930s-40s with mum’s dad Bill Linton far left at the back.
Me and brother Trevor with our tortoises (slowcoach and ?)
Dad, mum me and Trevor in the back garden at 6, Derby Rd, Eastleigh in 1958
In the back garden at 6, Derby Rd
A superimposed picture of family and friends from two different years
Me on scooter in the back garden at 6, Derby Rd, Eastleigh
In the back garden at 6, Derby Rd, Eastleigh
4th April 1959 at Highcliffe
Me and brother Trevor in March 1959 in our conservatory
Lulworth Cove with dad
Len (top left) besides Kate (my grandmother), Ciss holding mum in ront with brother Stan Linton
Postcard of durdle door in the 1960s
This postcard (last picture) was written to mum’s mum and dad
Mum in 1963
My weight record card at 2
My 4th birthday party with brother Trevor
Me and Susan Wellman on my 4th birthday
Me, Trevor and nan (grandma) Kate Linton
Mum and dad playing cricket!
Mum, me and Dad at Skegness (we had relations there)
This was on the reverse of the last picture
Brothers in arms!
Mum lost her dad 62 years ago. Here he is, William Charles Linton (1904-1962), second from right, standing
Mum’s mum and dad in London
Me, dad and Trevor on the way up Skiddaw in the Lake District (?) in the 60s
Me and Trevor in 1961
Trevor, me and mum in the back garden at 6, Derby Rd, Eastleigh in 1961
Me and cousin Lindy (?), my Aunty Margaret’s first daughter
Xmas card to my mum’s mum, Kate from her sister Beaty in Rhodesia
Mum’s mum Kat Edith Linton nee Proudman in London
School picture of me from the 1960s
Mum, Pat Linton
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
