This week’s perennial veg stir-fry with soba (buckwheat noodles), Japanese style contained the following (roughly left to right in the picture):Nettles / stornesle (Urtica dioica)Burdock / storborre roots […]
Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Bitter baccalao: roots and greens
No, I’m not vegan and have never been, I’ve been lactovegetarian with the occasional wild fish over 40 years. We always have some Norwegian dried cod (baccalao) at […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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The 2021 Selfies with a 20-year old Udo
This year’s udo (Aralia cordata) selfie pictures, probably the highest ever with a flowering spike way above my head. I harvested about 1/3 of the shoots in the […]
Perennial vegetables
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Early June Greens and Whites
Presenting some of this week’s perennial greens and, in the case of the blanched Hosta shoots, perennial whites!Hosta sieboldiana with ramsons / ramsløk (Allium ursinum) and giant bellflower […]
Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Forced March Perennial Greens
In order to lengthen the season for harvesting of perennial vegetables, I dig up roots of a selection in the autumn and plant them in garden soil in […]
Edimentals / Food / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Nettle-leaved bellflower
Nettle-leaved bellflower (Campanula trachelium) has a more southwesterly distribution in Europe than my favourite giant bellflower C. latifolia and replaces the latter species in the south of England, […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Norwegian quinoa and swamp greens medley
13th June 2020 perennial greens were stir-fried and served with quinoa and served with Allium ursinum flowers.Allium validum (swamp or Pacific onion) with flower shootSaxifraga pensylvanica (swamp saxifrage)Gunnera […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Garden wild green soup
Last night we made a green pea soup and apart from the Hablitzia (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde), I used perennial vegetables growing in a wild part of 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 […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Naturalised Giant Bellflower
No doubt introduced by the previous owners here as an ornamental and despite the fact I spent a lot of time trying to eradicate it from parts of […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Bellflower-chokes / Storklokkeskokker
I’ve previously introduced the gourmet part of the dandelion, the dandichoke! I write in my book: My favourite foraging author “(Samuel Thayer’s) favourite dandelion vegetable is what he […]
Book / Edimentals
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Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004
The first time my garden was featured in a book was in former Norwegian TV gardener and gardener for the King, Tor Smaaland’s 2004 book “Din drømmehage”. The […]
Edible flowers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Giant purple throat bellflower
Noticed this rather attractive purple throated Giant Bellflower, reminiscent of Codonopsis! This patch came from AGS (Alpine Garden Society) seed, received as a cultivar “Gloaming” although pictures of […]
Perennials
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Solstice sweet and sour soup greens
Somebody once said that solstice greens are the best…I’d add that solstice perennial greens are even better :) Here’s what I used in tonight’s soup: Sea kale(strandkål), Scorzonera (scorsonnerot), […]
Anredera cordifolia / Dandelions / garlic bulbils / Perennials
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Norwegian sansai
Good to be back from Japan to Norwegian sansai (foraged vegetables)…. From top left, left to right: Angelica archangelica “Vossakvann”, various dandelions / løvetann (Taraxacum), Rumex patientia (patience […]