Nancy Reading wrote:
Sonja Corterier wrote:
I am also looking forward to the spring Aegopodium podagraria (ground elder is it?) we prefer it over spinach and make pastries with it and tempura works well too.
Ooh! My ground elder is just coming into leaf now, I've not used it much to date. So do you just steam it as a vegetable, and stuff that in pastry cases? I must try that this year. I've made liqueurs with it. I quite liked the result - to me it had chocolate overtones, but not everyone who tried it was keen. 'medicinal' was one of the terms used! My husband also isn't keen on celery family plants, and I've got a feeling that groundelder falls in this camp too, despite the very dissimilar growing habits.
C Murphy wrote:As a regular eater of Jerusalem artichoke, which I prefer to call sunroot, I would like to add my 2 cents. If you eat them regularly (starting small), they make a wonderful addition to your diet. So easy to grow and good for you. I harvest mine all at once (soil is heavy clay and not pleasant to dig through once it's cold and wet), and roast what I can fit in the oven low and slow. That gets made into sunroot and leek soup, with garlic, stock, coconut cream and thyme. The rest is lacto fermented and used throughout the year for more soup, adding to salads (sunroot and potato salad is so good), and a new favourite which is sunroot and potato latkes.
Otherwise I also grow nettles, hostas, and asparagus for perennial veg. I grew Turkish rocket last year but haven't harvested it yet, same for Egyptian walking onion and shallots (looking to establish a perennial patch). This year I'm sowing hablitzia, good king henry, and perennial kale. And a neighbor has offered me some Solomon's seal so I think I'll take her up on that!
Sergei Boutenko wrote: