{"id":33448,"date":"2025-03-01T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=33448"},"modified":"2025-03-01T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:17:25","slug":"end-of-february-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=33448","title":{"rendered":"End of February Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Growing winter vegetables is easy and sustainable without the use of plastics, fleeces, expensive greenhouses and energy by exploiting the &#8220;talents&#8221; of perennial and biennial plants that are naturally cold tolerant! End of February greens, many harvested in the garden in this very mild weather, used in a delicious green Mac and cheese! See the list of plants added below the pictures.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/P2272120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/P2272120.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/P2272120-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/P2272120-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/P2272120-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1852-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1852-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1852-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1852-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1852-1-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>The plants:<br \/><strong>Forced inside:<\/strong><br \/><em>Aralia cordata<\/em> (udo)<br \/><em>Hosta<\/em><br \/><em>Aegopodium podogaria<\/em> (ground elder \/ skvallerk\u00e5l)<br \/><em>Cichorium intybus<\/em> &#8220;Witloof V\u00e6res Venners&#8221; (chicory \/ sikori)<br \/><em>Allium senescens x nutans<br \/>Petroselinum crispum<\/em> (parsley \/ persille)<br \/><em>Brassia oleracea<\/em> (various perennial kales \/ fler\u00e5rige k\u00e5l)<br \/><em>Cirsium oleraceum<\/em> (cabbage thistle \/ k\u00e5ltistel)<br \/><strong>Outside:<br \/><\/strong><em>Allium carinatum<\/em> &#8220;Pulchellum&#8221;<br \/><em>Hablitzia tamnoides <\/em>(Caucasian spinach \/ stjernemelde)<br \/><em>Allium stipitatum<\/em> shoots (Persian shallot \/ Persisk sjalott)<br \/><em>Rumex acetosa<\/em> &#8220;Abundance&#8221; (sorrel \/engsyre)<br \/><em>Taraxacum<\/em> sp. (dandelion \/ l\u00f8vetann)<br \/><em>Alliaria petiolata<\/em> (garlic mustard \/ l\u00f8kurt)<br \/><em>Dystaenia takesimana<\/em><br \/><em>Scorzonera hispanica<\/em> (scorzonera \/ scorsonerrot)<br \/><em>Ranunculus ficaria var chrysocephalus<\/em> (lesser celandine \/ v\u00e5rk\u00e5l)<br \/><em>Cardamine raphanifolia<br \/>Hemerocallis<\/em> sp.<br \/><em>Allium cernuum<\/em> (nodding onion \/ pr\u00e6riel\u00f8k)<br \/><em>Allium oleraceum<\/em> (wild onion \/ vill\u00f8k)<br \/><em>Allium sativum<\/em> (garlic \/ hvitl\u00f8k)<br \/><em>Allium paradoxum var normale<\/em> <br \/><em>Allium paradoxum var paradoxum<\/em> (few-flowered leek)<br \/><em>Armoracia rusticana<\/em> ( horseradish \/ pepperrot)<br \/><em>Smyrnium olusatrum<\/em> (alexanders \/ sorte l\u00f8pstikke); not a very hardy species, but I&#8217;ve kept it alive for many years growing up against the house wall protected by a leaf and sacking mulch (I overwinter tender plants in pots here):<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3012144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3012144.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3012144-300x261.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3012144-768x667.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3012144-640x556.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing winter vegetables is easy and sustainable without the use of plastics, fleeces, expensive greenhouses and energy by exploiting the &#8220;talents&#8221; of perennial and biennial plants that are [&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":[17,2705,2818],"tags":[3876,44],"class_list":["post-33448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-winter-protection","category-winter-vegetables","tag-macaroni-cheese","tag-perennial-vegetables"],"views":940,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33448","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=33448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33457,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33448\/revisions\/33457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}