An edibles walk and talk to myself at Kew Gardens on 12th April 2024! Pictures of spotted edimentals and other edibles below (names with the pictures):
A mild day here in Malvik and I’ve just heard my earliest singing woodpigeon ever, 19 days earlier than the previous record from 2021. 30 years ago this was an unusual overwintering bird here but nowadays quite common. I even heard one singing at the botanical garden (Ringve) in Trondheim at the end of January…. The picture is from another occasion. There’s only one patch of old snow at the moment.
With record temperatures recorded in this area at the moment after a mild winter when all the cold spells coincided with good snow cover means that the soil was hardly frozen all winter and garlic shoots had appeared a few days ago at least two weeks earlier than I’ve recorded before and I also found the first ground elder (skvallerkål) shoots – welcome back my friend and, be warned, I will be eating you until the autumn! It’s the marbled purple stripe garlic varieties that I grow that appear first: Aleksandra, Estonian Red, German Hardneck and Valdres!
The harbinger of the season of plenty: ground elder (skvallerkål), I LOVE YOU!I noticed Aleksandra garlic shoots on 13th March!This is a group of two year old garlic which were started from bulbilsGarlic being grown on an two year cycle can potentially give bigger total yield than if harvested every year. In the second year as shown here each clove has germinated and will produce a clump of garlics by autumn!
