This Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde self-sowed in this olive tree pot and is now intent on taking over :)
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Tonight’s greens 24th July 2015
Siberian Hogweed en masse
When Heracleum sibiricum (siberian hiogweed / sibirbjørnekjeks) is in flower, you get a good impression of how much free food there is on the streets of Trondheim :) Both young shoots, flower shoots and broccolis can be used as a vegetable. They are cooked and/or fermented. Russian beetroot soup, borscht, was originally a hogweed soup – often fermented first; The spring shoots are quite sweet. The pictures show almost pure stands of hogweed on Lade, Trondheim.
More in my book Around the World in 80 plants!
BE CAREFUL HARVESTING AS YOU CAN BURN YOURSELF ON THE PLANT JUICES IN STRONG SUNLIGHT!
Office Chilis
My green office – 5 different chilis are now producing well despite the fact there is very little sun as the building shades for most of the day!
Hablitzia intertwined with Good King Henry
In search of the purple caraway
I’m looking for an even more purple form of caraway. This is the deepest coloured one I’ve seen a picture of so far, found in Troms.
Very long dandelion leaf!
Any longer? About 95cm…..
Incredible Vegetables Blog!
Visit Mandy Barber’s great Incredible Vegetables blog, you won’t regret it!! The last two items have been on perennial brassica, including this one:
http://www.incrediblevegetables.co.uk/daubentons-kale-giving-everlasting-greens/#more-777
Thanks for the Taunton Deane cuttings Mandy!!