{"id":1681,"date":"2013-05-31T03:16:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T03:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T08:26:51","slug":"skirret-sium-sisarum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/skirret-sium-sisarum\/","title":{"rendered":"Skirret – Sium sisarum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skirret – Sium sisarum –\u00a0is an interesting ‘old’ vegetable that was apparently\u00a0grown and eaten\u00a0throughout europe before the potato took over as a staple in the 1500-1600’s. Pliny the Elder even mentions it in writings as ‘Siser’.<\/p>\n

It’s in the Apia (carrot & parsnip etc) family and a perennial.\u00a0It is similar to Salsify and Scorzornera in soil requirements and is better if it’s grown in a loose tilth but kept moist.<\/p>\n

It is a hardy reliable crop if grown with plenty of moisture and a fairly deep soil. They will even grow ok in a large pot if it’s deep enough. If it’s given a year or more it’s root system will get quite complex in shape so for root harvesting it’s better to have a dedicated plot and treat it as an annual.<\/p>\n

I usually keep a pot going that is handy just for leaf. This what it looks like in summer at its growth peak just before flowering.<\/p>\n

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The leaves can be eaten as well as the roots. The roots when cooked taste like a sweet potato with a hint of parsnip, celery or parsley depending on the cultivar\/variety. They can be eaten either raw or cooked. I think they taste best in Autumn just as the the shoots start to regrow in my climate. Older roots will start to develop a hard core.<\/p>\n

They tend to die back in late summer after flowering and then taper back to the ground with no leaf until new growth starts in late autumn.<\/p>\n

They go to seed easily in summer and the flowers are hermaphrodite and self fertile.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pfaf.org\/user\/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Sium+sisarum<\/a><\/p>\n

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Skirret – Sium sisarum –\u00a0is an interesting ‘old’ vegetable that was apparently\u00a0grown and eaten\u00a0throughout europe before the potato took over as a staple in the 1500-1600’s. Pliny the Elder even mentions it in writings as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/skirret.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ccXI-r7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}