Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of a memorable visit to the Århus CSA scheme and Tom Harald Eckell’s magical vegetables with Rita Amundsen, Margaret M. Meg Anderson and Veronica Samycia!
Never have I been so impressed by a field of vegetables (organic too), the astonishing diversity, many of which I’d never seen before…..and above all Tom Harald’s gentle modest manner in the midst of brilliance….my life changed that day…
We all sensed that we’d passed into a parallel universe for the duration of the visit and we all sensed simultaneously on the journey home our return! My life changed that day
Tom Harald Eckell and Veronica Samycia in front of the salad trailer
Sunflower sprouts
Rita Amundsen and Meg Anderson Hagen in front of the salad trailer
Veronica Samycia makes a B-line for favourite berry, one of the white Rowans
A large berried Cornus mas (Vårkornell)
Inspecting the Sea Buckthorn / Tindved (Hippophae) collection
Sea Buckthorn / Tindved (Hippophae)
Århus Andelsgård
Squash and pickling cucumbers
Tom Harald Eckell and (WOW WOW WOW) a long row of welsh onions!/pipeløk. Fantastic! My mind is truly blown by what this man does!
Welsh onions!/pipeløk (Allium fistulosum); you might have noticed I’m religious about onions and this row was simply onionasmic…
Margaret M. Meg Anderson spots the only cabbage white caterpillars of the day!. I suspect that Tom Harald had put them there himself!
Radish for pods
Radishes grown for the pods. We agreed that this was an underestimated food. The pods produce considerably more than the “radishes”
A Pak Choy
Amazing diversity of colours and leaf forms of the asiatic vegetables, growing perfectly here! Stunning!
More asiatic leaf vegetables
Flowering Pak Choy
More asiatics
…and even more
Grown for the succulent flowering stems
Veronica Samycia shows off the diversity of carrots including Dragon (‘s tooth) from Seeds of Change
Saltagurk
Rita Amundsen and Tom Harald in front of the Broad Beans!
Parsnip
Nero di Toscana kale
Giant cabbages
Kales and Broccolis (Grønnkål og brokolli)
A very interesting kale from either Baker Creek (Frank Morton) or Seeds of Change (Frank Navazio) – open pollinated, there was quite a large diversity
Rita Amundsen: What a waste – they don’t use the tops, the best bit!
Leek “Belgian Breeders Mix” from Frank Morton. He mentioned Lieven David
Leek “Belgian Breeders Mix” from Frank Morton. He mentioned Lieven David
At this point I passed out (besvimt) at the sight of this row of flowering Allium tuberosum (Kinagressløk). WOW WOW WOW again. An asiatic form of Allium fistulosum in front
Asiatisk pipeløk/Asiatic Allium fistulosum
Margaret M. Meg Anderson , Veronica Samycia, Tom Harald Eckell and Rita Amundsen
Just feel the weight of these
Tomato peppers
Watermelon
Carp pond overgrown with a Petasites spp
Hosta!
Flettverkshuset / Trellis Work House
Veronica Samycia levitating
Veronica Samycia levitating
The lunch spread
Allium tea…
Earth Oven /Jordovn
Margaret M. Meg Anderson elsker kål / starting a new trend of veggie hugging…
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
