Skirret
Good King Henry
Alexanders
Scorzonera
Rampion
Salola soda (commonly called Agretti or Burill)
Orach (also called mountain spinach)
Anyone see this video that randomly is popping up on youtube? mediaeval vegetables that don't sell well for commerial use and went out of fashion but are easy to grow and tasty, can be harvested again and again through the seasonn, or self-seed, the video claims. But since it's got AI images the claims may be inflated. My gf grows orach and had heard of Good King Henry but not the others, they sound more my speed than fussy annuals. But on the other hand they are not native to here.
My "throw some sunchokes out" has not worked out nearly as well as I had hoped. My soil is so so so sandy. What wants to grow here: peach trees (I'll have a crop this year if the late frost doesn't crack them next week...and by late frost I mean normal time frost but after an 80 degree day in early April, @$$#$@#), and sumac trees, mulberries and chestnuts are chugging along but not amazeballs, wild carrots really love it here but cultivated carrots seem to say "you got this, I'll let you be the carrots here" and the wild ones say "I rule this joint, die mofos." So, that happens. The sunchokes are few and not deep and tiny and sad this year..trying new soil from a landscape company that he had to drop somewhere (he paid me!), and also mulching the sunchokes a bit. Raspberry PLANTS grow well but I got almost no berries. Bittersweet grows well, hazelnut shrubs do OK but again not a lot of nuts. Oaks and acorns do fine. Some shag hickory, though my trees have never produced. The apple tree at the bottom of a slope, gangbusters yield, the ones at the top almost nothing. Same with crab apples in the neighborhood. And groud cherries do OK.
Since sumac isn't really a food plant I use it like daikon radish--build soil, give some shade in spots, draw nutrients up from deep down. It's my companion plant and emotional support animal. Maybe I can coppice them?? I don't know. Chop some branches off for mulch nearby?
radishes in the imported soil beds did pretty well last fall, I had greens until December. Survived under the snow even.
dandelions do pretty well, violets do amazing and I am sick of the flavor now so i will not be eating much more, and one forage chicory germinated out of the thousands of seeds I scattered (and nowhere near where I planted it). So that happened. I hope it self-seeded there and I get some more this year...
garlic doesn't do terrible, ad walking onions don't walk. They don't die but they don't walk either. I mulched them, I helped them, they still just didn't have enough water.
Grape vines doing OK, no grapes yet. Doesn't anything want to fruit around here?? Other than the legacy (conventional, treated with black sludge on the trunk) apple tree, it seems like the answer is usually a resounding no.
And my pond died
I may try to get me some low tannin oaks. There's a black locust next door and I got some honey locusts from Hershey line, they're surviving but have remained small small. It was a super drought this last year, but this year is a water year so I think we'll be OK and things can finally get a toehold.
I may sonic bloom some things this year if I'm not too lazy or unmotivated.
Thanks for letting me process.
