All posts by Stephen Barstow
Taraxacum leucanthum flowering for the first time
Walled Kitchen Gardens Network talk in October
I hadn’t planned any more talks this year, but I was tempted and have accepted to give a talk at the Walled Kitchen Gardens Network 2015 Forum at the Mansion and Kitchen Garden at Croome Court in Worcestershire, UK on Saturday 3rd October! The participants will be walled kitchen garden gardeners!
I will be among kindred spirits, having my own walled garden (my ex- greenhouse) ;)
My hardiest perennial kale
I don’t know what this perennial kale is, but it’s the only one that has survived the last 3 winters outside here, so worth keeping. It is coming into flower….
Edit: It seems that this is a Helgoland Wild Kale. I received seed from a German seed catalogue a few years ago!
Soup greens
Tonights perennial greens. I sometimes eat wild fish, so these greens were added to a fish soup, spiced with ground Hogweed seeds!
From left to right: Scorzonera greens, Allium x proliferum “Amish Topset Onion”, Allium scorodoprasum, Heracleum spp. and Rumex patientia (patience dock)
Sorrel “Schavel” * 7
Seven varieties of Schavel / щавель (Russian for sorrel / Rumex acetosa), just arrived from an Estonian vegetable catalogue!
Rita Amundsen on the radio with dandinoodles/løvenudler!
Engelsk: Yesterday morning my good friend, fellow forager and Norway’s fermentation queen Rita Amundsen had an appearance on Norwegian radio. She cooks dandinoodles with blue cheese from Hitra which are served up for the leader of the Norwegian Green Party, Rasmus Hansson. I wish we could have seen it as eating the same dandinoodle it almost ends in a kiss! The main part starts at about 1hr 28 mins in! The picture is from my talk in Oslo on Monday and I mentioned that Rita was on the radio in the morning!
http://radio.nrk.no/serie/nitimen/MUHR01011315/12-05-2015#t=54m45s
Norsk: I går morges hadde min gode venn, sanker og Norges fermenterings-dronning, Rita Amundsen, en opptreden på norsk radio. Hun kokkelkerer det jeg kaller løvenudler med blåmuggost fra Hitra og det hele nesten ender opp i en kyss med Rasmus Hansson, leder av de Grønne! Jeg skulle ønske vi kunne ha sett bilder! Hovedinnslaget starter på ca 1t 28 min i! Dette bildet er fra mitt foredrag i Oslo mandag kveld!
Green birthday party
Well, no one turned up to my birthday party at the weekend :(
We had fun anyway, me, myself and……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEIU2RHtGQ :)
Garden fertility and minerals!
The annual seaweed collection complete!
The Perennial Bed
I have always called this bed in my garden the Perennial Bed (for probably 20 years or more) as this was the first bed I made for perennials, mostly edibles…now, this is one of many perennial beds..
