Presenting the 14 permaveggies used in tonight’s Indian dal! Here are the ingredients:Around the outside: Blanched sea kale / strandkål (Crambe maritima)Stinging nettle / brennesle (Urtica dioica)Top left […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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9th April veggies
Tonight’s garden foraged perennial veggies for an oriental stir-fry! Lots of Hablitzia (stjernemelde), ground elder (skvallerkål), Svenskelauk (a form of Allium fistulosum), sweet cicely (spansk kjørvel), dandelion (løvetann), […]
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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 […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables
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Late May flowers in the Edible Garden
A selection of late May flowers in the Edible Garden: Post Views: 117
Book / Perennial vegetables
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New Norwegian Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia with Hablitzia and Hosta
Published this month is a new Norwegian Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia written by Kari Vetlesen Among its pages you will find both Hablitzia and Hosta (mentioned for the first […]
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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 […]
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2nd May Abundance
The change from winter to spring abundance happens very quickly…here’s last nights haul for a very green pasta sauce (it took about 30 mins from garden to table, […]
Breeding / Forest Gardening / Nursery / Perennials / Root crops / Salad / topset onion / Tubers / walkabout onion
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Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field
Well, not only Mandy’s plot, a group of local people in Ashburton, Devon got together to buy The Field a few years ago to grow vegetables communally! It is […]
Perennials
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Perennial veggie quiche 2014
Almost 2 years ago on 29th April 2014, this quiche features perennial vegetables, starring Hablitzia / Stjernemelde, Allium victorialis / Seiersløk, Ground Elder / Skvallerkål, Stinging Nettle / Brennesle, […]
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 […]
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Bear Spinach comes out of hibernation
Bear Spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides)? Well, my friend William Whitson in Washington State recently reported “I finally had a couple of plants withstand our typical 2.5m of rain winters. […]
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Autumn spring habby
Hablitzia, the Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde thinks it’s spring in autumn, the most optimistic plant out there…always puts me in a good mood… Post Views: 109
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Hablitzia seen from the kitchen window after heavy rain
Flowering Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde seen from the kitchen window… Post Views: 92
Climbers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials
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Hablitzia anno 2001!
I just discovered that Hablitzia was one of the ingredients in my first world record salad in 2001…. I had received both cuttings and seeds from Mona Hellberg […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Trees
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Hablitzia overwhelming an olive tree
This Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde self-sowed in this olive tree pot and is now intent on taking over :) Post Views: 185
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Hablitzia tamnoides in Oslo
Hablitzia tamnoides/stjernemelde/Caucasian Spinach in the botanical gardens in Oslo 3rd July 2015! Post Views: 96