This summer we’ve experienced a big swing in temperatures from one month to the next…from a record cold May to a record warm June followed by most of […]
Annuals / Edimentals / weeds
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White-flowered Sonchus oleraceus
I think it was Nathan Shannon who sent me seed of the white-flowered variant of common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus), now blooming for the first time!There are 10+ […]
Fjord views / Sun
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Forbordsfjellet sunrise day
The position of sunrise on the horizon changes rapidly here, perhaps 5 degs. every week. Twice a year sunrise happens close to the peak of Forbordsfjellet the mountain […]
Climbers / Root crops
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Hopniss at 63.4N
Hopniss (Apios americana), one of several plants known also as ground nut, is a clambering perennial legume and native american food plant of Eastern North America from Southern […]
Ethnobotanist
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RIP Stephen Facciola
I was very saddened to hear yesterday evening that Stephen Facciola, author of Cornucopia II: A Sourcebook of Edible Plants, the most useful reference work in my journey […]
Mammals
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Hedgehogs in the garden
2013 was sadly the last time I saw a hedgehog here (see the last picture here)…and there are only 3 reported observations since 2013 in the whole of […]
Beans / Breeding / Edientomental / Edimentals / Seed sAVING
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Broad Bean Mix
Broad beans (favas / bondebønner) will easily cross with other varieties that are growing nearby. In order to keep a variety pure, you need to isolate them physically. […]
Book / Edimentals / Garden views
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Alys meets the Modern Monk in the Edible Garden
10 years ago today I had my first celebrity visit, from the UK! On 10th April 2010 I received the following email message entitled Permaveggies:“I am a garden […]
grain / Harvest
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Henry’s Quinoa Harvest
At the Væres Venner community garden, I’ve planted 6 or 7 different Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus; stolt henrik) plants from different sources. In my book you can […]
Garden maintenance / water plants
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NEW PATH AND A VIDEO OF THE POND
I’ve been using all the time at home to carry out work in the garden that has been neglected for many years. I’ve just finished redoing the path […]
Perennial vegetables
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Pond Bed North Upgrade
I’ve been busy planting up a bed that I’ve been renovating. It’s part of a bed I’ve called “Pond Bed North” since I constructed it in the late […]
Bees / Edientomental / Edimentals / Insects / Onions
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Red-tailed bumblebee: new species for the garden
Yesterday, I registered red-tailed bee / steinhumle (Bombus lapidarius) for the first time at the community garden (Væres Venner), the first time in this part of Trondheim. This […]
Birds
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Magpie bathing
Yesterday, a magpie (a young bird I think) decided to visit our living room (aka indoor forest garden) and had to be shown the way out again….making it […]
Annuals / Edimentals
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A diversity of garden orach
I’ve grown numerous forms of garden orach (Atriplex hortensis; hagemelde) over the years as they are useful and decorative (edimental) annuals for the summer garden. Even though they […]
Edimentals / Garden tour / Garden views
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A visit from Oslo and Kirkenes
With most Norwegians holidaying in different parts of Norway this year, there are a lot of folks passing Malvik both northwards and southwards and I’ve recently had several […]
Butterflies and moths / Seed sAVING
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Parsnip moth
If you grow parsnip (pastinakk) for seed, you may have come across the parsnip moth or parsnip webworm (Depressaria radiata) as it can make an impact on seed […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Extreme salad man strikes again
The first 100 plant salad for 2020: Post Views: 141
Biological control / Birds / Brassica
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Biological control
I registered 3 great tit (kjøttmeis) territories and 1 blue tit (blåmeis) pair in the garden this year and both have raised young. One of the young great […]
Annuals / Beans / weeds
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No thanks no dig
Before I go any further, I should say that 2/3 of my cultivated area is almost 100% no dig (perennials is the ultimate no dig) as I grow […]
Annuals / Dye Plants / Edible seed / Edimentals / Herbs / House plants / oil seed / wraps
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Red shiso
Perilla frutescens var crispa f. purpurascens (red or purple shiso) is looking good on the window sill in front of my desk! This is an important crop in […]
Birds
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Siberian Nutcracker feeding young in the garden
I’ve written several times of our new breeding bird species, Siberian Nutcracker (nøttekråke), that is colonising the forests around Trondheim as a new breeding species as a result […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Ethnobotany / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic
(Note that there is a comment suggesting that this isn’t atroviolaceum and is probably rotundum, although accessions I’ve received as that species are much lower plants; will check […]