The first vegetable crop

It is always exciting to see the perennial vegetables that look out of the ground first. This year, everyone seems to want to come at the same time, perhaps because it has been so mild throughout March that it is not only the toughest of tough guys who can do.

Harvest The amount may not be sufficient to fill a salad bowl, but the plants works as a much appreciated accessory, fullspäckat med vitaminer och mineraler, after winter storage increasingly boring- and greenhouse crops.

The largest is that so often spenatskräppan (Rumex patientia):

Even garden sorrel (Rumex rugosa) has already set the proper speed and will be the main ingredient in today's omelette:

Then it is understood that the bulbs have arrived. They are always at the earliest out. Forest onion (eller kajp, Allium scorodoprasum) reminds me of a smaller version of leeks and will also become part of the omelette today.

In this picture you can see tree onion (Allium x proliferum) foreground and Siberian kantlök (Allium nutans) in the background. Both grew through the last snow and was among the first plants to look up in the garden:

A newcomer this year is garlic oblique lacking official Swedish name, but as in fröfirma has been named slingerbladslök, which is also the botanical name suggests,. The onion comes from Siberia and Mongolia and actually has the most advanced of all the bulbs so far. It has a quite strong, but pleasant garlic flavor:

An early vegetable is spinach rank (Hablitzia tamnoides), the young shoots are a real delicacy. All shoots can be harvested once, but the plant is weakened by the. In this picture, they have not really come so far that I reap, but soon it will be steamed hablitzia shot:

Malva moschata (Malva moschata) I usually use to decorate food with this time of year, but soon it will put real momentum and become the main ingredient in vårsalladen:

Another newcomer who has passed his first winter here is löparfetblad (Sedumm sarmentosum). It grows wild in Korea and there is an important ingredient in a variation of the Korean sauerkraut kimchi. In winter, the (the low temperatures in spite) always been green under the snow. It has a fairly shallow root system and can grow as fast as the top layer of soil thaws a bit. It tastes slightly sour and in my opinion much better than his relative kärlektsört (Hylotelephium telephium):

It's always fun when the harvest season will start this early in the year!

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