On 17th June 2024 I had a visit from Mihaela Tsarchinsk and Philip Varionov from the Green School Village and Permaculture Association of Bulgaria. We’d met previously at […]
Salad
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The year’s first salad photo shoot!
The year’s first multispecies salad made earlier this week on 12th April! The list of plants is below the pictures. The ingredients:Rumex patientia (patience dock / hagesyre)Rumex acetosa […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Little Garden Fish: A New Unexpected Edimental
Those that have read my book and follow my blog will know how much I love the stories that follow edible plants around the world and discovering those […]
Family
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Protected: 1st and 2nd April on Nesodden
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Biodiversity / Butterflies and moths / Insects
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A Blessing in Disguise
During a powerful wind storm earlier in the year one of my oldest sallow / selje trees on the edge of the wild part of the garden was […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Magazine article
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Edimentals and Perennial Veg in the RHS The Garden magazine
I have some great news to share! My word edimentals, “invented” some 17 years ago to describe those amazing plants that are both edible and ornamental – has […]
Walk and talk
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Edimentals at Kew Gardens; April 2024
An edibles walk and talk to myself at Kew Gardens on 12th April 2024!Pictures of spotted edimentals and other edibles below (names with the pictures): Post Views: 188
Talks / Walk and talk
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Video of A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens
My zoom talk “A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens” in Melbourne, Australia was recorded and is now available https://youtu.be/rHX3q3Dng4kI based the talk on Edimentals that can be […]
Uncategorized
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A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens
It was fun putting together my talk “A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens” today 6th March, although I’m not used to talking at 9 am! To explain, […]
Nut trees
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Female hazel
You have to search for the small red tassels that are the female wild hazel (Corylus avellana) flowers that will be the nuts. They’ve probably been there for […]
Food / Winter protection / Winter vegetables
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End of February Greens
Growing winter vegetables is easy and sustainable without the use of plastics, fleeces, expensive greenhouses and energy by exploiting the “talents” of perennial and biennial plants that are […]
Salad
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February Hosta-Udo salad
The year’s first taste of Hosta and Udo shoots (dug in the autumn, stored in the cellar and forced in the living room in the dark), used in […]
Biodiversity / Butterflies and moths / Insects
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Insect Biodiversity in The Edible Garden
When Covid limited my travelling, I decided to spend my time investigating what other creatures I was sharing my “habitat” (edible forest garden) with. I knew quite a […]
Birds
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Earliest woodpigeon
A mild day here in Malvik and I’ve just heard my earliest singing woodpigeon ever, 19 days earlier than the previous record from 2021. 30 years ago this […]
Garden tour
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Plant list for The World Garden
I’ve shared my list of plants that I’ve planted in Trondheim’s World Garden to a few people who’ve asked and now it’s available to anyone who is curious […]
Birds
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Goldfinches on the Veranda
Success!! The local flock of overwintering goldfinches (stillits) have found the food I’ve grown on the veranda! I grow burdock (borre) as a root vegetable in a large […]
Birds
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Bullfinch feeding on Guelder Rose
Bullfinches (dompap) feed on a wide range of natural foods in winter from the seeds of berries like rowan to maple and nettle seeds and shoots and buds […]
Salad
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Mid-January Salad
In connection with Cathrine Kramer’s (Centre for Genomic Gastronomy) third visit to Malvik from her base in Amsterdam to make an around the year artistic film of The […]
Trees
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Goat willow “rotvelt”
In the wild part of the garden, one of my goat willow (selje) trees, important for the garden’s biodiversity, is halfway down after yesterday’s storm 🙁 This is […]
Sun
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Yearbreak? Break of Year? Crack of Year?
Not sure what to call the first sunrise of the year, but as long as there are no clouds it happens on 11th January every year here. I’m […]
Seed / Seed Saving / Self Sufficiency
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025
Added a few on 8th February 2024 (search for NEW)Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2024-2522, 23, 24 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning […]
Birds
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Goldfinch on snow-covered burdock
Goldfinches are experts at neither getting burrs attached to them nor a face full of snow when feeding as here on burdock (borre) in the garden (filmed from […]
Snow
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Snow, snow and more snow
It’s good to be a pensioner when the weather is like it’s been recently with three in a row heavy snowfalls and probably the most snow I’ve experienced […]
Food
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Dandy Lion Quiche
Happy Dandy Lions forced in the living room, glad to have been invited into the warmth. Little do they know though that I had a cruel plan to […]
Tubers
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XMAS 2024 RHIZODIVERSITY
Presenting this year’s 34 rhizophantastic Xmas vegetables, all roasted in the oven, served as every year in the last 40+ with veggie nut roast, bedecked with the following […]