September is the month when several Asteraceae are in flower including one of my favourite perennial vegetables and edimentals Aster scaber (yes, I know it’s officially Doellingeria scabra) or chamchwi in Korea where it’s cultivated commercially for Korean markets around the world (often sold dried). It’s also popular with pollinating insects as can be seen … Continue reading Flowering Aster scaber
One of my favourite perennial vegetables and a fantastic edimental is Aster scaber (nowadays Doellengeria scabra), here harvested in spring in my garden: In September, in a farmer’s market in Atlanta, Georgia I found packets of dried Aster scaber leaves (I had searched unsuccessfully for chwinamul in other Korean supermarkets, but hadn’t found it before): On … Continue reading Dried Aster Scaber
Aster scaber was one of the obscure edibles in the Plants for a Future data base http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Aster+scaber Edible Parts: Leaves; Young plant[105, 177]. No more details are given. [105]Tanaka. T. Tanaka’s Cyclopaedia of Edible Plants of the World. [177]Kunkel. G. Plants for Human Consumption. Ken Fern doesn’t seem to have tried it himself. There is more information in … Continue reading Aster scaber and introducing Misoni
When giving talks I like to renew myself and talk about something different each time. For my talk in Copenhagen at the Future Heirloom event last weekend I focussed during part of my presentation on edimentals in the Asteraceae or Compositae (the aster or daisy family / kurvplantefamilien). These are tbe edible perennial vegetables that … Continue reading Asteraceae: valuable autumn flowering edientomentals!
There are many Asters that are foraged and cultivated in the Far East. This includes Aster scaber (Korean Aster) which is one of the 80 in my book Around the World in 80 plants. I’ve blogged a lot about this fantastic edimental. See http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=aster+scaber. In my book, I mention 4 other Asian species that are … Continue reading EdimAsters
There are some great autumn flowering edimentals (or edible ornamentals) in the Asteraceae, and this is my favourite of the lot, Korean Aster or Chwinamul (Aster scaber)….and it’s also very photogenic! If you don’t grow this and aren’t living in Korea, your only chance to try this is to find the dried leaf on Korean … Continue reading Octobasters
Two years ago, I posted this picture of Aster scaber, commonly wild foraged in Korea and nowadays cultivated for markets in Korea and exported dried to Koreans in North America :) The following is a collection of pages here giving more information on this great perennial vegetable, or read the account in my book Around … Continue reading Korean Aster on Edimentals
7 years ago on 27th July 2008 and the first flower on Aster scaber / Korean Aster opened in the garden :)
To celebrate that the life-timer clicked over from 69 to 70 yesterday, the Barstow household’s tradition of making an equi-age permaveggie diversity MacCheese for dinner was followed once again, except we were out of macaroni and it was therefore a 70 species FusCheese with whole grain Fusili pasta! Curious as to what was in it, … Continue reading A 70 permaveggie Fus-Cheese!
It was fun putting together my talk “A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens” today 6th March, although I’m not used to talking at 9 am! To explain, it was a climate friendly zoom talk from home with the good folks of The Herb Society of Victoria at Burnley in Melbourne, Australia. During 2014 when … Continue reading A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens