If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again! This plant, Caucasian spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides) caught my eye as one that is worth adding to a food forest. Like many others, it has “leaves that can be used as spinach”. The two properties that make it more attractive to me are that it grows
Perennial vegetables are plants which, once planted and established, will usually keep growing year after year. But why bother with them? Why not stick to tomatoes, beans, carrots etc? Why not plant up a bed or two in your garden this coming year and give it a go? You can intersperse the perennial vegetables with
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Egyptian walking onions do not come from Egypt. It is not clear where they do originate from, but they can be found all around the world. They get the name “walking” because of the way they spread themselves across the garden. During the summer, the stalks form bulbils which are like tiny onion sets on
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Introducing Yacon Yacon is a root vegetable that originates in the Andes but grows well here in the UK too. You start the plant off by planting a growing tip in a pot in the spring. Then plant it out in the garden after the last frosts (about second week of May). While it may
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