WELCOME TO MY NEW SEED TRADE LIST FOR WINTER 2021-22, THIS YEAR WITH 323 VARIETIES19, 20, 21 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as […]
Birds
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Natural bird food is best
I garden for the birds and other wildlife as well as myself and believe that bought bird food (sunflower seeds) is not necessarily a good thing as it’s […]
Food / Root crops
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Xmas day Rhizofantastigora dinner 2021
Xmas dinner in Malvik has been nut roast and roasted roots every year since 1984! This year there were 27 different roots: parsnip, 15 different varieties of potato, […]
Farm / Garden tour / Music / walks
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Carmen Porter and Hemmingford
I’ve met some wonderful people on my journeys over the last 10 years. One of them is my friend Carmen Porter in Hemmingford, Quebec who kindly offered to […]
Birds / Pollinators
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Burdock for goldfinches
I’ve written a series of articles in 3 parts “Fuglevennlige planter i hagen” (Bird friendly plants in the garden) for the magazine of our national bird society (NOF, […]
Berries / Birds
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Second visit from Pine Grosbeaks
Two years ago there was an irruption of pine grosbeaks (konglebit) in Norway and I finally got to see this species in the garden for the first time […]
Edientomental / Root crops
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Root Chicory Trials 2021 at Være
One of the experiments this year in the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) trial gardens at Væres Venner in Trondheim has been a comparison of different root chicories. These […]
Berries
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Late Fresh Berries
I love the seasonality of fruit and berries and one group of berries that can be harvested in October and November are particularly valuable when you only […]
Root crops / Tubers
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A real Oca yield outside at 63.4N
Two days ago, the latest first frost date was registered in Trondheim for 130 years! This has allowed my oca (Oxalis tuberosa), one of the Lost Crops of […]
Birds
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Rose-ringed parakeet
Finally, having heard the bird for several months, a rose-ringed parakeet / halsbåndparakitt (blue mutation) finally turned up in the garden today and sat eating apples in good […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Extreme 66 ingredient November Salad
The Extreme Salad Man has been quiet recently. He was inspired to make this 5th November salad by a 10 year old Facebook memory of a salad he […]
Biannuals / Perennial vegetables
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Unusual October veg
A few unusual vegetables this October from the Edible Garden and House:1. I’ve been trialling around 20 different chicories this year from seed from the German seed bank […]
Food
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Beetroot harvest and “blood” burgers for dinner again
This week I harvested the beetroots and being more or less 100% self-sufficient in vegetables, seasonal food is the thing! My favourite way to use beetroot (both red, […]
Birds
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Parakeet in Malvik
For a couple of months I’ve heard a bird call locally that reminded me strongly of the rose-ringed parakeets in London. I’ve never seen the bird and finally […]
Butterflies and moths / Pollinators
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Admirals on Monarda
Monardas are autumn flowering here and one of the best plant genera for pollinating insects at this time of year, including bumble bees and butterflies. Over the last […]
Fjord views / Sun
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Red sky rainbow
An unusual combination of red skies and a rainbow over Forbordsfjellet as the sun set last night just after the last visitors on the year’s last official garden […]
Birds
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Chiffchaff flycatching indoors
Chiffchaffs (gransanger) have been flycatching around the Buddleja bush and on the veranda over the last weeks and I guess it was only a matter of time before […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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20 years of Extreme Salads
20 years ago on 19th August 2001, the Extreme Salad (Man) was born when I made my first (of two) world record salads with 363 different plants and […]
Fungi
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Porcini in abundance
At last, after the warm summer the porcinis (ceps / steinsopp; Boletus edulis) are coming up in large numbers in the woods, the best year since 2005! I’d […]
Birds
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The Heron and the Eagle
White-tailed eagle (havørn) and a grey heron (gråhegre) hunting spotted from the house this morning. Post Views: 191
Bulbils / Perennial vegetables
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Large forms of Alpine Bistort
Alpine bistort or harerug in Norwegian (Bistorta vivipara syn Persicaria vivipara or Polygonum viviparum) is a common plant here in Norway and the only wild plant apart from […]
Butterflies and moths / Pollinators
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Painted lady on teasle
The first painted lady (tistelsommerfugl) of the year in the garden (2 years since the last one during the 2019 invasion year). On teasle / kardeborre (Dipsacus). Post […]
Edientomental / Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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Dystaenia heaven
Along with many members of the Apiaceae (carrot family / umbellifers) the flowers of Dystaenia takesimana (Giant Ulleung Celery) are heaven for pollinators like hoverflies (blomsterfluer).These great edi-ento-mentals […]
Fruit
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Nanking cherry harvest
Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa) is a species native to northern and western China, Tibet, Korea and Mongolia. My two plants are seed propagated about 20 years ago, […]