Hello, growers!
In the temperate West-European climate where I reside, trees are no longer used for vegetables. This is a pity.
I want to introduce "vegetable trees" from other temperate regions.
Today, we have plantings of the "lettuce tree" - Tilia cordata - which is an excellent salad green. (recommendation: coppice/pollard to get fresh leaves from april to august)
We also have the "lentil tree" a.k.a. Siberian pea shrub, Caragana arborescens, which is still young, but seems to bear prolific. (Does anyone know of a selected cultivar with extra-large seeds?)
Some European chestnuts trees take the role of "potatoe trees".
We enjoy the stir fry and soup of the "onion tree" - Toona sinensis.
Now the question is to you:
Which other "vegetable trees" do you grow and recommend?
Which varieties work well for you, and where do you source them?
(We have only selected varieties of chestnut, the rest are all seedlings - and I suspect there is a lot of opportunity for improved varieties!)
(- and as an aside: What do you think about the name "vegetable tree" to explain to "normal people" the possibility of tree crops/carbon farming?
I do have the excellent books of Eric Toensmeier, Martin Crawford and J. Russel Smith. Other pointers are welcome!)
