{"id":1096,"date":"2015-04-23T22:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1096"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:32:09","slug":"perennial-sprouts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=1096","title":{"rendered":"Perennial sprouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with germinating seed of perennial veggies in the winter for fresh greens. I dead head the plants anyway to stop them self-seeding too much, so why not put them to some use! Harvested a bit late today sprouts of Myrrhis odorata (Sweet cicely) and Levisticum officinale (Lovage)&#8230;.they were sowed in earth in large pots earlier in the winter, kept outside to stratify (cold treatment) and then brought into an unheated\u00a0room in the house to germinate. I was going to add them to an omelette, but discovered I had no eggs, so I made a Lovage-cicely &#8220;bubble-and-squeak&#8221; (mashed potatoes with greens)&#8230;the taste was excellent, the lovage not too strong!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1097 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390516.jpg\" alt=\"P1390516\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390516.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390516-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1098 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390518.jpg\" alt=\"P1390518\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390518.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390518-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1099 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390520.jpg\" alt=\"P1390520\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390520.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390520-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390529.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1100 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390529.jpg\" alt=\"P1390529\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390529.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/P1390529-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with germinating seed of perennial veggies in the winter for fresh greens. I dead head the plants anyway to stop them self-seeding too much, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1096","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34251,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1096\/revisions\/34251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}