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Guided tour of the teaching and learning garden: "Summer vegetables - summer delights".
We invite you on a voyage of discovery of lesser-known summer vegetables such as cassel stalks, garden orchids, and edible summer flowers. With agricultural engineer and vegetable gardener Catherina Merx.
Binding registration at tropengewaechshaus[at]uni-kassel[dot]de or 05542-981231 until 6.7.22 Cost 5€.
As industrial horticulture focuses primarily on high-yielding varieties, it is obvious that many of the formerly common species and varieties are being forgotten, including often those with regional significance such as the 'Kasseler Strünkchen'. Kasseler Strünkchen is a variety of romaine or bind lettuce. Here in northern Hesse, the young leaves are harvested one by one from the bottom and eaten as a salad. After "shooting" the inflorescence, the stalk ends up with the remaining leaves as a vegetable in the cooking pot. Here in the region, the vegetable is also called summer endive, sloppy cabbage or sloppy cabbage. We will explain what this means during the tour!
The garden orchid is also almost forgotten. It is one of our oldest cultivated plants. It does not only look beautiful: Its leaves are delicious as a vegetable and as a salad. They dye or have healing properties.
Our summer flowers not only decorate gardens and vases, but can also become a healthy, tasty ingredient in many dishes. We will gladly explain how the feast for the eyes can also become a feast for the palate. In addition to their decorative and appetizing properties in dishes - "the eye eats with us" - blossoms can do much more: the pigments that give blossoms their colorful appearance and that serve, among other things, to communicate with pollinators are secondary plant compounds such as the yellow flavones and red anthocyanins, which have a variety of protective effects in the body.
Summer delights: Stop at Ringelnatz
If you work up an appetite, you can combine what you have just learned with a stop and taste the vegetables from the teaching and learning garden freshly cooked!
Starting from 12:45 o'clock there is a menu from the garden in the Bistro Ringelnatz. Separate registration under 05542-6199785.
University Kassel, stone road 19, 37213 Witzenhausen