Ground
elder, it is a very persistent weed. The roots break of quickly and the smallest
portion of root left in the soil will result in a new plant growing. In the heavy clay
soil of my garden it is a disaster. I pull of leafs to exhaust the plant. But I
probably will be exhausted much sooner than the ground elder does!
Ground elder, what to do with it? Recently I received some tips of a fellow
gardener. She told me that you could eat ground elder! She was very culinary skilled,
so I hung at her lips!
All
her tips at a glance:
Cooking
in a wok, wonderfully crisp.
Chopped
ground elder in an omelette.
Cooked
like endive.
Use
it as the main ingredient of pesto.
Used
as a vegetable in the Indonesian fried rice dish.
My
mouth was watering. I asked her whether she had enough ground elder growing in
her garden to make all these lovely dishes. But she had non-in her garden.
"Where
do you get it from then?" I asked curiously. "I pick it’, she told
me. “In the park."
I
wish she was my neighbour!
Ground elder, not just for eating..
..you can also make beautiful flower arrangements.
Lovely....
... in a vase.
If you can' beat it - eat it! Beautiful in a vase.
ReplyDeleteBut I am very anxious about the neighbor's ground elder too...