The last time I blogged about this Physalis it was 7 years old. It is now 13 and still going strong. The last time I wrote about it, […]
Food / Root crops
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Sweet cicely / chicory root scrambled egg
I had been asked if I had photos of the roots of chicory (sikkori) and sweet cicely (Spansk kjørvel) for a talk about wild edible roots. I therefore […]
Beans / Pulses
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Red Cheeks and Fingerprints
I harvested two of the more beautiful broad (fava) beans I’ve grown yesterday, both of which originate in Canada. Red Cheek and Fingerprint favas. The diversity of forms, […]
Uncategorized
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Dad’s potatoes – life goes on!
I harvested the last potatoes yesterday. This variety is Sharpe’s Express, an English variety from 1900 developed by a Mr. Sharpe in Lincolnshire. Although an early variety, I […]
Drying / Foraging / Fungi
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Forest bounty
Spending so much time in the 3 gardens I look after – The Edible Garden; The World and Demonstration Gardens at Væres Venner Community Garden and the Allium […]
Root crops
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20 seasons with Sarpo potatoes
(Norwegian under)This year was the 20th season of growing Sarpo potatoes here in Malvik/Trondheim and yields are as good as ever with 100% blight resistance! These were harvested […]
Sun
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View towards Hell
This was the view towards a little place called Hell which lies due east of here yesterday morning: Post Views: 164
Interview / Publication
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Mi-Sauvage
Back in April 2017 I had been invited by Jean-Martin Fortier to give a seminar on perennial vegetables to the staff of La Ferme des Quatre Temps, an […]
Beans
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Mini-glut of runner beans
The climate is such here that starting runner beans / blomsterbønner (Phaseolus coccineus) in mid-May they normally aren’t ready to harvest until September and the first frosts in […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Grape leaves
I love it when edible plants find their own place in my garden! I planted a hardy grape species Vitis coignetiae from the Far East including Japan, Korea […]
Nutrition
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The nutrition of perennial vegetables
Thanks to Eric Toensmeier in collaboration with 6 other groups including Annevi Sjöberg in Sweden and Karoline Nolsø Aaen & Tycho Holcomb in Denmark and Aaron Parker in […]
wild flowers
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Scything the meadow
There’s a small meadow area in the garden that I scythe once a year to maintain it. Yesterday I raked up the dried material. This area had clearly […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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Flowering Aster scaber
September is the month when several Asteraceae are in flower including one of my favourite perennial vegetables and edimentals Aster scaber (yes, I know it’s officially Doellingeria scabra) […]
Butterflies and moths
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Second visit by Blue Underwing!
The holy grail of the MOTHERS visited again this morning, the second time, and the size of it once again took me by complete surprise! This was the […]
Butterflies and moths / Pollinators
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Buddleja davidii
One of the few plants in my garden which isn’t edible is my large Buddleja davidii (butterfly bush / sommerfuglbusk), a wonderful entomental (loved by insects and an […]
Forest Gardening / Nut trees
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Sweet Chestnut at 63.4N!
About 20 years ago I sowed some sweet chestnuts that I found in Southern England. One germinated and surpisingly to me it survived the first few winters. I […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Sochan tops Mediterranean style
Thanks to Alan Bergo (@foragerchef) for reminding me to try sochan tops. This is Rudbeckia laciniata (cut-leafed coneflower) which in the double form is one of the most […]
Bulbils
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Alpine Bistort harvest
I have a small patch of different forms of alpine bistort / harerug (Bistorta vivipara) in the garden and this year’s harvest is now drying in the living […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Persian Shallot harvest
One of my favourite perennial onions are persian shallots, Allium stipitatum and I’ve blogged about them several times in the past: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=persian+shallotThis is one of the earliest onions to […]
Garden tour
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The wildest garden
I was away in the UK unexpectedly for two weeks in June. In my absence, there was a mini-heat wave here with plentiful rainfall too and 24 hour […]
Salad
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Salad for HGB and HvB
My dad Harald George Barstow (HGB) sadly passed away on 7th June at 97. A few days later on 11th June I’d scheduled a long-awaited visit from my […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Food / Pollinators
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Sweet Gigas stalks
Somebody asked me a few days ago if one could eat Angelica gigas (Korean Angelica) as you can Angelica archangelica (see my book Around the World in 80 […]
Insects / Pollinators
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Cuckoo wasp in the garden!
I found the cuckoo wasp / rødgjøkveps in the garden today – Vespula austriaca. It parasitizes the red wasp / rødveps (Vespula rufa) by occupying its nest. V. […]
Invertebrate
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Window worm
A weird thing happened on the morning I left for England. Not what I expected to see gliding across the window in front of my desk: an earthworm. […]