There’s no better gift than a few onions:
Allium cernuum / Nodding onion / Chicago Onion / Prærieløk
Category Archives: Onions
Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her own story of the wonderful diverse tempura we made together on that day using perennial veggies!
See also https://saladdy.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/tempura-day
..includes ostrich fern, blanched lovage, Udo, perennial kale, moss-leaved dandelion, Allium victorialis, nettles, Aster scaber, scorzonera shoots, Campanula latifolia, Oca, Myrrhis, Allium scorodoprasum, garlic, Allium ursinum, Ligularia fischeri (first time), sea kale, Primula veris “Red Strain”, Rumex acetosa, Alliaria petiolata and a few others…
New Alliums
Some new Alliums in flower for the first time…
The first 4 are a nice form of Allium wallichii, then an Allium flavum with large inflorescences and finally the rare Allium regelianum from Russia
Allium korolokovii
Flowering for the first time!
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus (from seed sown in 2004) is a good midsummer flowering species, here together with Allium scorodoprasum, possibly the Vikings’ garlic (garlic = geirlauk which means “spear onion”)
Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”
There are many great edimental forms of Allium cernuum / Nodding onion or Chicago onion. I call this one “Dark Scape” because of the dark flower shoot / scape. Bees love it too…
Allium victorialis diversity
Brynhild Mørkved has over the years collected forms of Allium victorialis from over it’s range – the Alps, Caucasus, Japan and the Kola peninsula in North West Russia. The main reason has been to try and determine where the naturalised populations in the Lofoten Islands originate as this isn’t a native plant in Norway. I tell the story of the Lofoten victory onions in full in my book Around the World in 80 plants: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=30
Tonight’s veggies; 24th June 2015
Allium nutans xsenescens, Stellaria media, Oregano (yellow leaved), Bay leaf, Campanula latifolia, Red streaked mustard greens, Asparagus, Malva moschata, Day lily buds, Crambe maritima, Rumex patientia, Rumex acetosa (non flowering), Atriplex hortensis (two cultivars)
Tall onions
My Persian shallots are in flower. Here they are:
More in these links:
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=357
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=893
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=1407
Also in flower and even taller is Allium rosenbachianum Album (unknown edibility):
A 230 onion pesto :)
A pesto with 230 different onions, served at lunch on Saturday (Allium) (grown and collected by me and prepared by Veronica and Rita) ;)
Why? Because we could….
