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I saw this stuff for sale the year before last at a local garden centre. It
really was lesser celandine I was not getting confused with all the other
look alikes.

Good. I like to see celandines, and they're fairly easily contained.
I've got my eye on a couple of plants I saw last year growing under a
hedge and forgot to ask the owner whether I could have some seed (until
it was too late) - they're Ranunculacae, celandine-like, but much larger
- however, I don't think they are kingcups.

I have not visited that garden centre this year but it would not surprise me
if they are selling ground elder :-)


I'm about to cram a couple of planters with ground elder. I use it quite
a lot in cooking, but where it is ATM I could well do without.

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Rusty
Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
(Alice Thomas Ellis)

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Incidentally it rained here (BH22) this evening. Briefly.


Update. Went to the allotment this morning and the rain gauge had 1.5mm.
Total for the year so far - 37.5mm.

We have had a respectable amount of rain over the last two or three
days. I understand some areas have had a bit more.

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Rusty
Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
(Alice Thomas Ellis)

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from "Rupert" contains these words:

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I saw this stuff for sale the year before last at a local garden centre.
It
really was lesser celandine I was not getting confused with all the other
look alikes.

Good. I like to see celandines, and they're fairly easily contained.
I've got my eye on a couple of plants I saw last year growing under a
hedge and forgot to ask the owner whether I could have some seed (until
it was too late) - they're Ranunculacae, celandine-like, but much larger
- however, I don't think they are kingcups.

I have not visited that garden centre this year but it would not surprise
me
if they are selling ground elder :-)


I'm about to cram a couple of planters with ground elder. I use it quite
a lot in cooking, but where it is ATM I could well do without.


How is it used in cooking?

Maybe if I treated it as a crop I would get rid of it.Well it worked with
the asparagus :-((

Steve

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How is it used in cooking?

You pick the young leaves and stems and cook them like you would
spinach. Or chop them and add them to stews, casseroles, etc.

If you have something wather bland and you want to add some flavour -
like greengrocer's' parsnip's (sorry, could'nt re'sist it!), you can
cook the leaves with the 'snips.

The flavour is said to be a bit rank after flowering, but I don't let
them flower...

Maybe if I treated it as a crop I would get rid of it.Well it worked with
the asparagus :-((


I have to go out in the nearby fields looking for Chenopodia. Or if the
weather is a bit off, I look in the deep-freeze instead.

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Rusty
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