Tonight’s dinner was the first tempura of the year, made with Emmer wheat….delicious!
With Mustard “Giant Red”, dandelion, Hosta flower shoots, assorted lily flowers, ground elder, Daubenton and Daubenton variegated perennial kale, Rosa spp., ragged jack kale, Crambe cordifolia flowers and buds, broad bean tops, Houttuynia cordata “Chameleon”, Calendula officinalis flower, Sonchus oleraceus, giant bellflower flower buds, Allium cernuum flower, Allium senescens flowers, Allium rubens flowers, Diplotaxis (perennial rocket), grape leaf, mustard broccolis, various lettuces, Hablitzia tops, Scorzonera flower stems and buds etc.
Daily Archives: July 3, 2018
Old Growth Hablitzia today!
My oldest Hablitzia (Caucasian spinach) planted here in 2001 is the right of these two plants, the one on the left is self-sowed!

Tragopogon capitatus
A new edible in the garden in flower today is salsify relative Tragopogon capitatus from Xinjiang in China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan!
The seed were sourced from Alexander Naumenko:
Common gull threatening on the balcony!
11pm last night and I opened the bedroom door onto the balcony and a common gull (fiskemåke) decided I was a bit too close to its chick that was somewhere in the neighbourhood and started shouting at me, even landing on the balcony!! I think they had a nest on one of the houses on the hill above me for the first time this year!