Our spring holiday and Banavie is beginning to feel like home, we plant some new vegetables and seeds and eat outside on deck gazing at Ben Nevis
We were in Banavie in October last year for a party aboard Ros Crana, to celebrate the end of season for Caledonia Discovery. Arriving early, we got talking to a very nice woman about her garden and in particular her damson tree. We left her garden with a huge bag of the fruit and made loads of delicious flavoured jam from the present.
This time she introduced us to an extraordinary vegetable, the walking onion / tree onion. It fruits all year by producing ‘bulblets’ at the top of a stalk instead of flowers, these weigh down the stem and when it reaches the ground, the bulblets hop off and develop into maturity themselves, thus they are a stride away from the parent plant.
We took a huge bag of the mature ones home to eat (like a really sweet leek) as well as some of the bulblets to plant aboard the boat in a pot;
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