When giving talks I like to renew myself and talk about something different each time. For my talk in Copenhagen at the Future Heirloom event last weekend I […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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Flowering Aster scaber
September is the month when several Asteraceae are in flower including one of my favourite perennial vegetables and edimentals Aster scaber (yes, I know it’s officially Doellingeria scabra) […]
Drying / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Dried Aster Scaber
One of my favourite perennial vegetables and a fantastic edimental is Aster scaber (nowadays Doellengeria scabra), here harvested in spring in my garden: In September, in a farmer’s […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Sea kale broccoli end of May salad
Just expressing some feelings through a salad ;) With sea kale broccolis, tulip flowers, Allium zebdanense (Lebanon onion) flowers, Aster scaber, sorrel, patience dock, Mertensia paniculata, Allium schoenoprasum […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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EdimAsters
There are many Asters that are foraged and cultivated in the Far East. This includes Aster scaber (Korean Aster) which is one of the 80 in my book […]
Perennial vegetables
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Octobasters
There are some great autumn flowering edimentals (or edible ornamentals) in the Asteraceae, and this is my favourite of the lot, Korean Aster or Chwinamul (Aster scaber)….and it’s […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Korean Aster on Edimentals
Two years ago, I posted this picture of Aster scaber, commonly wild foraged in Korea and nowadays cultivated for markets in Korea and exported dried to Koreans in […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Pakora hasn’t met this selection of veggies before!
I gave myself a little treat this week and made Indian pakora! Pakora are basically fried vegetable fritters, often sold as a starter in Indian restaurants. The vegetables […]
Perennials
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The Wild Greens of Korea
There are still many undiscovered (in the west) perennial edibles in the Far East. I’m therefore now concentrating mainly on that area in this quest. This spring I […]
Dandelions / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennials / Tempura / Tubers
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Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her […]
Edimentals / Perennials
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My first Korean Aster flower
7 years ago on 27th July 2008 and the first flower on Aster scaber / Korean Aster opened in the garden :) Post Views: […]