permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <rmwj@soonernet.com>]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I think most of them would grow here
except for maybe the wild strawberries.  I've been growing borage and
several kinds of chives. My chives, however, have tended to be back
behind other things and thus not really visible, your post makes me
think I should move them around a bit, which I've been meaning to do.

I wonder if the nodding onion is what we call an egyptian or walking
onion, makes tall fleshy stalks which I pick for green onions, then a
cluster of little bulblets forms at the top, as it ripens it falls
over and voila, a new cluster of plants.  I don't know what tree
onions are, however.

And how do you eat the hollyhocks?

Robert Waldrop, OKc


-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Finigan <kfinigan@telus.net>
>hollyhock & other mallows - big showy, various colors; edible
>runner beans - bright red flowers on climber
>violets & pansies - mostly purple and yellows; edible leaves and
flowers
>chives, garlic chives, nodding onion, tree onions etc - all edible
with
>interesting flower heads;
>
>I also think asparagus and rhubarb are pretty plants...but maybe
that's just
>me! And then there's comfrey - donkey ear leaves with tall flower
>spikes...but once you plant it, its yours forever...
>
>ciao,
>Kelly
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