As we approach midsummer many of my perennial vegetables are beginning to flower and from spring leaves and shoots we are now in the flower bud, scape (flower […]
Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Hostas, scapes and broccolis
Last night’s greens included all my 16 Hostas, Allium scorodoprasum (sand leek / bendelløk) scapes; broccolis from sea kale (strandkål), ornamental sea kale (Crambe cordifolia) and Turkish rocket […]
Brassica / Perennial vegetable shoots
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An Aristocratic Vegetable
Sea kale Crambe maritima is sometimes referred to as the King of the Vegetables (Queen is perhaps more fitting!) . This is partly due to the fact that […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Earthquake proof Crambe!
An old stone wall collapsed below the house in the winter on top of one of my Crambe cordifolia (ornamental sea kale / buskstrandkål) plants….well, it bounced back […]
Food
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Emmer multispecies tempura
Tonight’s dinner was the first tempura of the year, made with Emmer wheat….delicious! With Mustard “Giant Red”, dandelion, Hosta flower shoots, assorted lily flowers, ground elder, Daubenton and […]
Perennial vegetables
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Crambe cordifolia sale
I found 4 plants of one of my favourite and most productive perennial vegetables, Crambe cordifolia (Heartleaf Crambe / buskstrandkål) for sale at 70% off the normal price […]
Food
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Slow food at last!
After 11 days of mostly fast food, it was good to get home this evening to a jungle of slow food…. Ingredients: Hablitzia, Rumex acetosa, Rumex patientia, Myrrhis […]
Birds / Perennial vegetables
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Chiffchaff enjoys diamond backs
I was taking a picture of my second Crambe cordifolia (heartleaf crambe / buskstrandkål) flowering for the first time in the garden from my bedroom balcony. I noticed […]