I introduced you to a Korean woman, Misoni Sandvik, in my recent post about Aster scaber: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=3103. She helped me to order Ligularia fischeri which I found in the same on-line vegetable catalogue as Aster scaber. This species would certainly have been included in my book had I known what a great, productive perennial vegetable … Continue reading Ligularia fischeri, king of the sannamul
This was an unscheduled course day for me, my helper Lorna and Berit the camper, as it was a national holiday in Norway and Christian Odberger gave us a short course in grafting and I now have 6 or so new varieties of apples on a seed propagated apple. See also http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=4627 … Continue reading Day 4 of the Permaveggies course and Ligularia wraps!
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 started off as scrambled eggs but ended as scrambled “perennial” greens: The ingredients:Allium ursinum (ramsons /ramsløk)Allium sativum (garlic /hvitløk); shoots and bulbsHeracleum sp. (hogweed / bjørnekjeks); 2 speciesDystaenia takesimana (giant Ulleung celery; Ulleung kjempeselleri)Aegopodium podograria (ground elder / skvallerkål)Campanula latifolia (giant bellflower / storklokke)Lamium album (white dead-nettle; døvnesle)Urtica dioica (stinging nettle / brennesle)Taraxacum sp. … Continue reading Scrambled greens
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
I’ve shared my list of plants that I’ve planted in Trondheim’s World Garden to a few people who’ve asked and now it’s available to anyone who is curious (follow the link). The World Garden (Verdenshagen) is a garden I’ve created, starting in 2017, to show off the diversity of perennial vegetables, essentially my book Around … Continue reading Plant list for The World Garden
Added a few on 8th February 2024 (search for NEW)Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2024-2522, 23, 24 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as I don’t have many plants of each species, seed quantity is limited in most cases. Therefore, for some species you may only get a … Continue reading THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025
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!
To celebrate 40 years since I and my then wife Eileen bought Bergstua (literally house on the rock) and the garden that became The Edible (Forest) Garden, I endeavoured during the second of the two garden tours (as part of økouka – organics week) to talk about 40 of the plants in the garden during … Continue reading Around the garden in 40 plants
After yesterday’s video post about the snow onion (Allium humile) I had to make a snow onion lunchtime salad, so here it is; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mOcQ4aUQVIIngredients below the pictures. Allium humile (snow onion; snøløk)Crambe maritima (sea kale; strandkål)Primula veris (cowslip; marianøkleblom); 2 varietiesAllium paradoxum var paradoxum (few-flowered leek); bulbils (NB! DON’T PLANT AS IT IS VERY … Continue reading Snow onion salad