We’ve been eating dandelions every day this year and now the first batch that I brought up from the cellar is flowering: We ate that one yesterday, but there are several more stretching upwards, and the background today is much brighter after a heavy snow fall:…and a bucket of chives can also now be harvested from:
A little secret I’ve had since last autumn (apart from a select few) when I was told that I would get my very own Allium bed at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim :)
Yesterday, 18th August 2017, I finally got the time to start the planting. I will be planting both the collection of old Norwegian perennial onions that I have collected from all over the country over the last 10 years and a selection of species Alliums to show off their incredible diversity!
The first phase was mainly the planting of my old Norwegian onion collection, Allium schoenoprasum (chives / gressløk), Allium fistulosum (Welsh onion / pipeløk including old Norwegian roof onions from Gudbrandsdalen) and Allium x proliferum (walking onions, tree onions, Egyptian onions / luftløk, etasjeløk). I also planted about 22 accessions of Allium cernuum (nodding onion, Chicago onion / prærieløk) plus a few others like Allium carinatum pulchellum and Norrlands onion (Norrlandsløk).
It was a long day starting at home at 8 am with packing, sorting and documentation, returning home after 10 pm – it was worth it for the sunset from the garden over Trondheimsfjord!! Looking forward to phase 2 which will probably be in September!
Thanks to the Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre and particularly Morten Rasmussen for funding the bed preparation and Vibekke Vange and the staff at Ringve for making me feel so welcome!
Before!
The first Alliums in the ground were two accession of Norrlands Onion (Norrlandsløk) from Lund and Harstad (from Magnar Aspaker)
Norrlands Onion (Norrlandsløk)
Spacing out the chives (gressløk)
Chives and Allium cernuum finished planting
Finished planting 93 different onions!!
This sunset from the garden I take as a good sign! It was a beautiful evening in the garden and several people stopped by to ask what was (finally) happening!
Preparing Allium cernuum accessions for Ringve at home:
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After 11 days of mostly fast food, it was good to get home this evening to a jungle of slow food….
Ingredients: Hablitzia, Rumex acetosa, Rumex patientia, Myrrhis (young seeds), Hemerocallis middendorfii and H. lilioasphodelus (daylily buds), Crambe maritima (broccolis), Crambe cordifolia (broccolis), Nettle, 2* Origanum, Tragopogon pratensis (flower stems and buds), Allium senescens, Campanula latifolia, Asparagus trichophyllus, Chives (flower buds), Peltaria alliacea, garlic, chili and chicory (2 types)
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Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
We ate that one yesterday, but there are several more stretching upwards, and the background today is much brighter after a heavy snow fall:
…and a bucket of chives can also now be harvested from:
