So - what is this?Not hard really - it is down in the kitchen garden and its roots, grated, are great with beef - yes it is a variegated horseradish.
The herbs and veg are doing well - the asparagus is now seven feet tall, parsley (unfortunately) (so you know who wears the pants at The Nook) is thriving.
And we have thyme, rosemary, sage - purple, green and variegated, mint of three types (I include the watermint in the stream), chives, marjoram - both culinary and golden, and the giant of them all - lovage.
The squat grey shrub in front of the lovage is a grey thyme.
We have yet to try lovage soup but the chicken is now stuffed with a few leaves and it is good with fish - lemony.
Also we have a few wild plants like watercress - don't eat it raw as there are sheep and cattle in the water source (liver flukes), sweet cicely and, because I live here - Spignel Meu (Meum athamaticum).
You will have to wait for the Spignel saga - another blog.
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