Things in my garden that are not dead.

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Six raspberries of three different type. A number of strawberries (elsanta). One blackcurrant, two redcurrant, a jostaberry and two blueberry bushes. Angelica, lemon thyme and a few mystery plants that are probably from the edible flowers I planted last year. One of last year's onions has reappeared. Shoots of Jerusalem artichoke and radishes. Lots of weeds.

The rhubarb appears to be dead. The ginger died, and the other herbs (except the rosemary, which was stolen). The mirabelle is in uncertain health, I'm neither giving up nor hoping. I might try again with rhubarb, and may even eventually turn the front garden into permanent stuff only rather than the crop rotation I'm sort of trying.


The most exciting of those is the angelica. I've had candied, and am keen to do that myself, but the BBC say I can also use the uncandied peel as a sweetener, and recommend it for rhubarb or apple in particular, and the leaves apparently work as a herb with fish or salad.

Comments

[gerald_duck]

Well, I'd never even heard of jostaberries before!

This reminds me, though: ISTR once managing to offload a bunch of jamjars on you. You're not after any more, are you? (He asks, eyeing the worktop space he can reclaim once he's rid of them…)

[badriya.livejournal.com]

The herbs died in the winter and I got mor mint and parseley to plant a month or so ago, but the old mint has come back strongly too. The parseley's not too good. Our trees in pots, pear, apple, plum are in blossom. This is their third year. We've only had a few tiny sour apples so far.