Purslane

[jtammilehto]

Anybody found this in S. Finland? Purslane/Portulaca oleracea

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... side-dish/

[Rosamunda]

No. It's a bit late to grow it from seed this year.

Did you google this discussion? http://keskustelu.suomi24.fi/node/3055558

[jtammilehto]

But supposedly it is a very common weed - was asking if it has been spotted - not whether it can be grown. Would have been the next question

[Rosamunda]

Then try Henrietta's website. She is the most knowledgeable person in Finland on culinary and medicinal herbs. You need to sign in to use the search function on her pages (her website has got so huge):

http://www.henriettesherbal.com/fi/index.html
(it is possible to search in English, Finnish, Swedish, Latin, French, German etc etc)

I don't think I have spotted it in the wild. Presumably it prefers sunny locations (if, as the article says, it grows in cracks in the pavement in the USA) - OTOH it might be a good year to find some, given how warm and sunny it is. But we had a hard winter and it's an annual so.... maybe not so easy to find. I'll keep my eyes open.

This place has a biodynamic herb garden and on-line store (but they are on holiday): http://www.labby.fi/
They are on FB so maybe you could ask them where, how to find it in the wild.

And here: http://puutarha.net/index.asp?s=/suorak ... ?nro=10/08
http://puutarha.net/index.asp?s=/suorak ... ?nro=10/08

[Mangrove]

Anybody found this in S. Finland?

http://www.luomus.fi/kasviatlas/maps.ph ... &year=2009