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12/12/2013

perennial plant profiles

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PictureAllium tricoccum, Ramps
We can think of at least 180 great forest garden & perennial crops for cold climate Sweden.  Want to hear about them? Over the course of the next year we will profile 5 a week on the blog. Perennial plants and crops offer a low energy, oil & resource input based foundation for future-proof agricultures. By default if an agriculture is to be called regenerative the bottom line is that it must be soil building, not soil depleting. Relentless deep tillage & poor soil husbandry (wifery?!) contributes to the majority of the 24 billion tons of topsoil lost every year on planet water.  We are going to be focused on holistic polyculture grazing and perennial production at ridgedale over most of the site as this represents the most effective way to restore our degraded landscape, produce high value produce and ensure the future resource base we are managing holistically for in our decision making. 

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Genus Allium 
Species tricoccum 
Common Name ramps
Form herb
Habit clumping
Origin North America
Light part to shade
Moisture wet to mesic 
Edible greens, flowers, bulb




The name ramps (usually plural) is one of the many dialectical variants of the English word ramson, a common name of the related European (Allium ursinum) The ramp has broad, smooth, light green leaves, often with deep purple or burgundy tints on the lower stems, and a scallion-like stalk and bulb. Both the white lower leaf stalks and the broad green leaves are edible. The flower stalk only appears after the leaves have died back, unlike the similar Allium ursinum, in which leaves and flowers can be seen at the same time.

Bulb can be eaten raw or cooked and is used mainly as a flavoring in salads and savory dishes. This is one of the best N. American wild species for sweetness and flavor.  The bulb is rather small, it is up to 12mm wide and 50mm tall and is produced in clusters on a rhizome. Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.  Flowers are usually eaten raw as a garnish on salads with a hot onion flavor.

Traditionally the leaves were used in the treatment of colds and croup, and also as a spring tonic. The warm juice of the leaves and bulb was used externally in the treatment of earaches. A strong decoction of the root is emetic. The plant probably has most of the medicinal virtues of garlic, in a milder form.

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Allium tricoccum

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Pro Tree Removal Adelaide
4/2/2021 07:16:49 pm

Just beautiful! My favorites are the peonies, easy-care perennial flowers. I grow dark pink, light pink, and magenta.

Best,

Mitchell Taylor (from Pro Tree Removal Adelaide)

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Micheal link
16/9/2021 04:06:05 am

Great Article! Thank you for sharing this very informative post, and looking forward to the latest one.

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