Plant Fact Sheets This page includes all of BalconyContainerGardening.com's Plant Fact Sheets of popular container plants that you can grow in your balcony garden. Each page includes an illustration or photo, a short intro on the container plant, its scientific name, the plant type, how much light it needs, how to propagate it and any other information that you may need to succeed. Enjoy your container garden! Click here to search by scientific name instead. Aeonium African Lily Aloe Vera Angel's Tears Angel's WingsAnthurium Arrowhead Plant Azalea Baby's TearsBambooBasil Beans (Snap, Pinto) BeetsBell Pepper Bird of Paradise Bleeding HeartBoston Fern BougainvilleaBoxwood BroccoliBromeliadBush Lily CabbageCalla Lily Canary Islande Date Palm TreeCanna HybridsCarrot CatnipCelosia FlowerChamomile FlowerChrysanthemum FlowerCilantroCockscomb FlowerColeus Common DaisyCrassula 'Morgan's Beauty'Creeping ThymeCrocus CucumberCyclamen Daffodil Dahlia FlowerDaisyDianthus FlowersDillDracaena 'Janet Craig'Dwarf Orange Tree
Wild Food School - Urban Foraging Guide & eBooks Urban Foraging & Cornwall Forager Guides - FREE Foraging for food - even in a city - can be fun. But where do you start? This Foraging Guide is in PDF format and is designed to allow you to print out the pictures on standard 10 x 15 cm. photo paper and then bind them together (laminate the pages if you want). Correctly printed out you will find plant picture and text side by side like the example below. Click wfsURBFORAGER.pdf to downloador right click and Save. ** If you're more interested in dealing with food and water in disaster and emergency survival situations (also in urban areas) you might like to take a look at the new book Armageddon Kitchen and Doomsday Kitchen over on this page >>> ... There are also a 98 page TROPICAL FORAGING GUIDE [approx. 8Mb] plus the Cornish Foraging and a Riverside Foraging guide. See also the exciting range of Wild Food WISDOM Cooking with Weeds™ eBooks at wildfoodwisdom.co.uk Wild Food School Homepage
Home — The Plant List Urban Foraging: Wild Edibles In Cities -- Collect And Eat Fruit, Greens, Snails And More! (PHOTOS) Eating locally is a big deal these days -- but few people know about all the edible treats growing wild in cities across America. Here at HuffPost Green, we think the most adventurous way to eat local is to throw on your wellies and go foraging for urban goodies. From delicious fruits to weeds you would never think to eat, clams and snails, cities are full of hand-picked eating opportunities! We hope this slideshow gives you some great urban gathering ideas, but be sure to check with local experts for help identifying plants before stuffin' your face. Have some photos of found edible treats growing in urban areas? Foraged Food Find a picture, click the participate button, add a title and upload your picture Steve Brill leads urban foraging tours of Central Park. Now Make Your Own Top 5 And Share with Your Friends Average rating: 6.9 out of 10 Plus, if you live in San Francisco, New York or Portland, check out these awesome urban foraging tours and communities.
How to grow the herb shiso perilla | Life and style Shiso perilla, better known as shiso in Japanese, tai to in Vietnamese and kkaennip or ggaenip in Korean, is one of those herbs that, if you know of it, you rave about and have myriads of recipes, including one for mojitos. I am experimenting with shiso soda as we speak. To everyone else it’s the herb that looks like nettles you’ll have tasted perhaps as tempura or wrapped around a fancy bit of sushi. But it is far more than a garnish and once you get a taste for it, you may find you want a ready supply, so it makes sense to grow your own. There are two main types of perilla: Perilla frutescens, the standard red and green forms, and P. frutescens var. crispa, which is the curly purple-leaved form often used in bedding displays (the Victorians were very fond of it). The green form is more flavoursome and the one most widely used in cooking. Soaking the seed for four to eight hours before sowing speeds up germination.
Urban Edibles :: a community database of wild foods Hugelkultur - una fertile collina coltivata 1) Per prima cosa dovremo decidere le dimensioni e la posizione della nostra aiuola. La posizione più adatta è quella con le estremità orientate a Nord-Sud, questo per garantire la massima insolazione possibile durante la giornata (i due pendii dovrebbero essere rivolti rispettivamente a Est e a Ovest). Per quanto riguarda le dimensioni, non c'è una ricetta fissa. Esistono Hugelkultur di piccole, medie e grandi dimensioni. La lunghezza dell'aiuola è sempre a piacimento, mentre varia a seconda delle esigenze l'altezza del cumulo e la larghezza dello stesso. In genere un cumulo finito dovrebbe essere di larghezza inferiore o pari a 180 cm, questo al fine di agevolare l'accesso ad ogni sua parte senza sporgersi troppo in avanti. 2) Una volta decise tutte le caratteristiche che dovrà avere il nostro cumulo si può passare alla preparazione dell'aiuola. 3) Una volta terminato lo scavo, si può procedere a riempire la fossa con tutto il materiale legnoso di cui disponiamo.
Growing Elderberries: How To Grow Elderberry Plants Elderberry (Sambucus) is a large bush or shrub that is native to the U.S. and Europe. The bush produces bluish-black fruit in bunches that are used in wines, juices, jellies, and jams. The berries themselves are quite bitter, so they are rarely eaten by themselves. Interested in growing your own elderberries? Read on for more information. How to Grow Elderberry Plants Growing elderberries is not all that difficult. When planting elderberry bushes, you should note that the berries will grow on the bushes the first year you plant them. Elderberry planting is done best in well-draining, loamy soil. When elderberry planting, make sure to allow for cross-pollination. Make sure you do your elderberry planting early in the spring. Care of Elderberries After you have done your elderberry planting, you should weed once in a while, but do so carefully. When growing elderberries, remember that the bushes require about an inch or two (2.5 to 5 cm.) of water each week.
Liste de plantes comestibles Cueillette feuilles : mars-mai Il est préférable de ramasser les feuilles lorsqu'elles sont jeunes et forment une touffe partant de la base de la plante. Avec l'âge, elles se chargent en tanins et ont tendance à devenir amères et astringentes contrairement aux feuilles d'oseilles, à l'acidité caractéristique, les feuilles de la patience sauvage sont amères et astringentes ; la patience (Rumex patientia) était autrefois cultivée pour ses feuilles dans les potagers sous le nom d'oseille-épinard jeunes feuilles, encore enroulées : crues en salades, elles sont très mucilagineuses feuilles un peu plus âgées : cuites en légumes, bouillies à 1 ou 2 eaux si leur astringence et leur amertume sont devenues trop prononcées Dangereuse à forte dose en raison des oxalates contenus dans la plante, ne pas utiliser en cas de gastrite, rhumatisme ou goutte en raison de sa propriété diurétique.