Re: Prize Pest
Actually it's "hortopitta, " Bob, made with wild seasonal (winter) greens.
(The winter ones are "sweet" in contrast to the bitter spring ones like
dandelions, sarsparilla, wild asparagus, etc.) The oxalis is only used as a
seceasoning herb. This has inspired me to ascertain the botanical names of the
staples which I know only by their popular Greek ones. When I do I will post
the recipe.
Cali Doxiadis
Corfu, Greece
Bob Beer escribió:
> >Oxalis pes-caprae is undeniably indestructible but somehow seems too
> >humble and too benign an opponent, spreading soft tender and lemony >at our
> >feet in great swaths of winter brightness.
>
> This is how I feel - though I can see that it might be a problem with
> emerging seedlings, it's not a really destructive or pain-inflicting plant
> like some. For Seattle (which, though often referred to as a maritime
> climate, is really more of a cool mediterranean climate), I'd have to say
> the worst is Convolvulus sepium, aka "morning glory" aka "devil's guts".
> It's a perennial plant with a large white morning glory-like flower. It
> spreads by very quick-growing brittle white runners. Once it has invaded a
> bed, there really is no way to completely eradicate it short of digging up
> the bed; a tiny piece of it left among the roots of a peony will give rise
> to a whole new colony, and by the time you notice its searching shoots
> popping above the foliage, it's already taken off in a new direction. The
> problem is compounded by the fact that many non-gardeners think it's pretty
> (well, it is), and allow it to grow, run, and seed. I have incursions of it
> from three sides of my yard and have pretty much resigned myself to the idea
> that I'll never be free of it - I just keep pulling.
>
> Himalayan blackberry (Rubus discolor) is a close second in the Northwest -
> it takes over whole vacant lots (where it dukes it out with the morning
> glory and eventually wins somehow). I've seen it in immense stands in N.
> California too.
>
> >(Besides, Janet, it adds a delectable "tang" to the greens of our winter
> >pittas here in the North of Greece)
>
> "Oxalidopitta"? ;)
>
> Bob
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