Photos: Charleston Food Forest Part 2 Left Side

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These pictures are from the left side of the Charleston Food Forest.  See Part 1 Right Side.


This sign marks the perennial leeks.




The perennial leeks are beginning to emerge amongst the wild violets (which are also edible).




This sign marks the Egyptian walking onions.




The Egyptian walking onions are well up, already hand-high and growing fast.




This sign marks the garlic chives.




Garlic chives are already well up. However, they need someone to clear away the dead stems from last year.




This sign marks a black currant bush.




It's already leafing out.




Here is a closeup of the black currant leaves.




This sign describes both the hardneck garlic and the softneck garlic.




The hardneck garlic seems to have spread itself all over to hell and gone. It's in other beds, it's in the path, it's everywhere. For that matter so are the wild strawberries and the creeping thyme. This is good since most garlics have lost the ability to reproduce fertile seeds so getting seeds from them is tricky.  But when I see little shoots coming up far from the patch, I suspect seeds rather than vegetative cloning (which garlic normally does).




The scarlet goumi is just starting to wake up. Its buds are swelling but haven't opened yet.




The French sorrel is already big enough to harvest. It can be used pretty much anywhere you'd use lettuce -- on a sandwich, in a salad, as a wrap, etc. You can cook fish or chicken in it too.




The softneck garlic seems to be staying where it's put.




This sign marks where the creeping thyme was planted. It is now all over everywhere. Despite the text, all thymes are edible -- creeping thyme just not as tasty or convenient as the culinary cultivars.




The creeping thyme is leafing out.




Winter savory is leafing out.




This sign marks the lavender, which lines the sidewalk at the entrance / exit of the food forest.




Lavender is putting out new leaves.