[Madame Cholet]

good king henry
marshmallow
sweet cicely
solomon seal
golden hop
sea kale
chinese artichoke
baldmony

all safely potted up to be planted out when containerised

[Aunt Sally]

I'll be very interested to hear how "eatable" and productive they turn out to be.

[New shoot]

Seakale is lovely, though not a massive crop.  I force it and it is a luxury veg like asparagus, I look forward to 

I did have Good King Henry in the garden, but the hens are a bit obsessed with it, so never got to try that    Sweet cicely leaves are great for cooking with fruit to reduce the amount of sugar you use and the green seeds are nice to eat.  They taste like liquorice comfit sweets 

Madame Cholet is blaming me for buying this lot anyway, so I hope they are decent crops 

[boldondig]

I had soloman seal in my flower beds - it is edible - the sawfly caterpillars love it and strip the plant bare - I wasn't aware that humans could eat it  - if you plan to - then watch out for the saw flies

[savbo]

Had to google baldmony! And I am an ecologist! I know it as signel-meu...

never ate it though

sav

[BabbyAnn]

chinese artichokes are lovely and nutty raw but do look a bit weird - you don't get a huge harvest and might need to build a stock in the first year (maybe have a couple of tasters but try and keep most of the tubers to propagate more the following year) 

[crh75]

My parents used to cut the stalks off perpetual spinach, steam it and call it sea kale.  Having never eaten sea kale I have know idea if it is at all similar!

[Madame Cholet]

thanks everyone may be a while before there is any volume to eat but the gkh leaf seamed fair.

Thanks Babbyann that's a good idea I've done the same with the oca and j artichokes.