This is what I had for dinner last night: a Mediterranean-diet style green (wholegrain spelt) pasta dish with wild fungi, annual greens, broad beans, weeds, golpar, chili and […]
Food / Salad
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50 and 20 year celebrations
To celebrate our good friends’ Jurgen Wegter and Ingvild Haga’s 50th birthdays together with Meg’s 50-year anniversary of arriving in Europe for the first time (in Southampton near […]
Onions
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Tall Swamp Onion
Years ago, I was at a work meeting in San Francisco with my colleague Harald Krogstad who sadly died in 2020. It’s very easy to put a date […]
Perennial vegetables
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Perennial puha, Sonchus kirkii in Malvik #2
In 2017, I was able to grow Sonchus kirkii, the original perennial sow thistle (puha or rauriki), an important traditional vegetable of the Maori which I’d long wanted […]
Annuals / Edimentals / weeds
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White-flowered Sonchus oleraceus
I think it was Nathan Shannon who sent me seed of the white-flowered variant of common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus), now blooming for the first time!There are 10+ […]
Annuals / Beans / weeds
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No thanks no dig
Before I go any further, I should say that 2/3 of my cultivated area is almost 100% no dig (perennials is the ultimate no dig) as I grow […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Pizza Hemerocallis
Tonight’s pizza ingredients found on a random forage in the garden: 3 different day lily species flower buds, including the first yellow Hemerocallis altissima, H. citrina (in the […]
Food / Herbs / Onions / weeds
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Sonchus and Basil Pesto
Common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is now in season in my garden another plant categorised by most as a weed, but for me one of the most important […]
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 […]
Annuals / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial puha, Sonchus kirkii in Malvik
Sonchus kirkii is the original perennial sow thistle (puha) of the Maori which I’ve long wanted to try (see the account in my book Around the World in […]
Annuals
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Edible gutters
Not clearing out the roof gutters, this Sonchus oleraceus (common sow thistle) has found its place and a new form of edible roof gardening is founded, edible gutter […]
Salad / weeds
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Sonchus “Custard in Greens”
Those that follow this blog will know that I consider common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) to be a super weed in the sense of its importance as a […]
Article / weeds
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Haredylle: gratis mat på alle kontinenter
An article published 10 years ago in the Norwegian magazine Sopp og Nyttevekster…the title means – Common sow thistle: free food on all continents [gview file=”http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Dylle_Sonchus_Sopp_og_Nyttevekster.pdf”] Post […]
Annuals
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A Sonchus oleraceus variety?
It would be a great project to select Sonchus oleraceus…for new improved yielding and special forms like was done with wild chicory aIt would be a great project […]
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 […]
Annuals / Perennials / Seed
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Sonchus seed
I couldn’t resist these two packets in a Chinese seed catalogue someone tipped me about. Never seen common sow thistle seed for sale (first picture), perhaps a cultivar?…and […]
Annuals / Dandelions / Perennials
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Weed art
LOVE THIS!! How many edible weeds can you spot? Two of them are in my book – Taraxacum officinale and Sonchus oleraceus… http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/12/mona-carons-murals-of-weeds-slowly-overtake-walls-buildings/ Post Views: 170