A wonderful birthday dinner yesterday!As is the tradition since I left home, my birthday dinner has been Macaroni Cheese with rhubarb crumble for dessert. Mac Cheese was the […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Today’s perennial catch
23rd April 2020 perennial greens used in a delicious quiche (eggepai):Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde)Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely / spansk kjørvel)Rumex acetosa (sorrel / engsyre) Campanula latifolia (giant […]
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Forest garden companions
Here’s two favourite companions of the edible woodland garden: Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum) and the climber Caucasian spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides). The plant is for the waterleaf to gradually […]
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The paradoxical habby pesto
Last night’s Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) and Allium paradoxum pesto was of course delicious with golpar (Heracleum spice), garlic, chili, sunflower seeds, parmesan, salt and pepper. […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Uncategorized
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Habby in the snow
I think that we ate Hablitzia (fondly known as habby) shoots every day this March as the mild winter and largely unfrozen soil brought them on about a […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Floriferous Hablitzia
There couldn’t be more flowers on my oldest 17 year old Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde)! Post Views: 107
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Variegation
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Variegated Habby on Nesodden
A year ago, I reported on variegation on a Hablitzia in my son’s garden on Nesodden near Oslo (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=18162). I gave him this plant a few years […]
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Hablitzia tour
A tour of my garden on 2nd April 2019 talking about one of my favourite perennial vegetables, Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach). It’s extremely early yielding, productive, tasty, can […]
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Old Growth Hablitzia today!
My oldest Hablitzia (Caucasian spinach) planted here in 2001 is the right of these two plants, the one on the left is self-sowed! Post Views: 95
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Variegated Hablitzia on Nesodden
I visited my son today on Nesodden (Oslo) and was impressed by how much growth his Hablitzia had put on and then I noticed that one of the […]
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Happy Habby Pizza
Last night’s dinner was a 100% wholegrain sourdough pizza with Hablitzia, four cheese and poppy seed topping… The dough was made from a selection of whole grain organic […]
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Mass Hablitzia germination
Hablitzia’s attempt to take over the temperate world continues with this mass germination after 10 days in the fridge! Plenty of plants will be finding new homes this […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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In its 18th year
My oldest Hablitzia is finally growing after the cold winter and in response to higher daytime temperatures over +5C! Post Views: 61
Community Garden
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Verdenshage and Væres Venner
It was the first time I cycled to my office at the Ringve Botanical Garden today and I took the opportunity to see how the new Væres Venner community […]
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Hardy Habby
Hablitzia tamnoides (stjernemelde) is a pretty tough plant! These plants in a bucket have been like this exposed to this colder than average winter, totally frozen for probably […]
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Hablitzia forest garden
A little video of my Habitzia jungle today… I usually train the plants up into the trees , but I’ve let them do their own thing this year. […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Propagation
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Dividing 1-year old Hablitzia plants
Hablitzia roots have an astonishing number of shoots waiting to grow if you cut them down…I like to think that this is an adaptation to human grazing pressure, […]
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Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche
Tonight’s dinner was a Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche with oregano, poppy and celery seeds on top with cowslip-violet-Allium zebdanense-Arctic bramble flowers….wholegrain barley-oat-rye pastry…. not at all bad :)Anyone else have […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Old growth Hablitzia status 4th May 2017!
Most of this has now been sacrificed (last two pictures) as foragables haven’t come very far where I’m holding a course this weekend (large snow fall recently).. Post […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Prestigious prize to Ronny Staquet for his work with Hablitzia!
Congratulations to my friend Ronny Staquet who recently won a prestigious prize for his efforts in popularising Hablitzia at the Fête des Plantes de Printemps at Château de […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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My oldest Hablitzia, already vigorous in 2004!
Cleaning out my office and I found a local newspaper article about an open day in my garden almost 13 years ago (August 2004) with a picture of […]
Climbers / Winter shoots
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Hablitzia excavation
I dug out one of my Hablitzia plants today as it had self-sowed in a place I didn’t want it….I harvested a few of the winter shoots and […]
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 […]