{"id":28261,"date":"2021-03-21T13:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=28261"},"modified":"2021-03-21T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T12:54:33","slug":"forced-march-perennial-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=28261","title":{"rendered":"Forced March Perennial Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 large buckets (which I have a surplus of through my Allium project, now moved to the botanical gardens). As I explain in the video, all of these can be stored outside exposed to the cold as they are very hardy (minimum about -20C here), but some get a head start by moving into my cold cellar where they start growing slowly in the dark. Welcome to my living room:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-28261-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WinterVeggies.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WinterVeggies.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WinterVeggies.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>These were the forced veggies used one day last week, from top left and across &#8211; <em>Heracleum sibiricum<\/em> (hogweed \/ bj\u00f8rnekjeks); <em>Campanula latifolia<\/em> (giant bellflower \/ storklokke); <em>Myrrhis odorata<\/em> (sweet cicely \/ spansk kj\u00f8rvel);\u00a0 <em>Taraxacum officinale<\/em> (dandelion \/ l\u00f8vetann); (bottom row): <em>Allium angulosum<\/em>; <em>Ficaria verna<\/em> (lesser celandine \/ v\u00e5rk\u00e5l); <em>Allium flavescens<\/em> and <em>Armoracia rusticana<\/em> (horseradish \/ pepperrot); (centre right): wild buckwheat \/ vill bokhvete shoots &#8211; <em>Fagopyrum tataricum<\/em>)<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P2020533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P2020533.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P2020533-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P2020533-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P2020533-768x761.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P2020533-640x634.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1355,2818],"tags":[3399,1173,201,1076,475,3765,3821,93,3534,200,180,1129,1083,1123,4302,1122,92,676,1130,3764,3763],"class_list":["post-28261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perennial-vegetables","category-winter-vegetables","tag-allium-angulosum","tag-armoracia-rusticana","tag-bjornekjeks","tag-campanula-latifolia","tag-dandelion","tag-fagopyrum-tataricum","tag-ficaria-verna","tag-giant-bellflower","tag-heracleum-sibiricum","tag-hogweed","tag-horseradish","tag-lesser-celandine","tag-myrrhis-odorata","tag-pepperrot","tag-spansk-kjolrvel","tag-storklokke","tag-sweet-cicely","tag-taraxacum-officinale","tag-varkal","tag-vill-bokhvete","tag-wild-buckwheat"],"views":3580,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=28261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28264,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261\/revisions\/28264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}