{"id":22680,"date":"2019-06-25T13:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22680"},"modified":"2019-06-25T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T12:00:07","slug":"foraging-the-viviparous-bistort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22680","title":{"rendered":"Foraging the Viviparous Bistort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are two colour phases that almost always grow together…these bulbils are not fully grown. They are not seed, rooting themselves quickly into damp soil when they fall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s a rare event that I forage outside the garden at this time of year and almost never for leafy greens. I’m trying to find time at least once a week for a walk in the woods and at the weekend I did just that and I was surprised to find that the alpine bistort (viviparous knotweed \/ harerug) bulbils were ready to harvest. It often grows in large quantities along tracks in sunny spots on the edge of the forest.<\/p>\n

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We had a perennial veggie quiche for dinner and these were used as as a tasty nutty topping. The vegetables we used included sorrel (Rumex acetosa \/ engsyre), musk mallow (Malva moschata \/ moskuskattost), day lily flowers (Hemerocallis \/ daglilje), various onions (l\u00f8k), Hablitzia leaves and Hosta.<\/p>\n