The pitter patter of birch seed bracts (or scales) as you can hear at the beginning of the video can only mean one thing here, a large flock […]
Birds
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Bramblings and nettles
There are many bramblings (bjørkefink) in the garden at the moment and yesterday I noticed them eating nettle seed for the first time! I’ve previously recorded bullfinches (dompap) […]
Forcing / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Horseradish harvest
This week, I also harvested horseradish (pepperrot) roots. Some will be ground to be used fresh, usually with lunch and some will be forced in the dark later […]
Forcing / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Preparing dandelions for forcing
The weather was a bit milder over the last few days, thawing sufficiently so that I could crowbar dandelion roots from the frozen soil and pot them up […]
Drying / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Dried Aster Scaber
One of my favourite perennial vegetables and a fantastic edimental is Aster scaber (nowadays Doellengeria scabra), here harvested in spring in my garden: In September, in a farmer’s […]
Birds
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Bramblings
As two years ago, large numbers of bramblings (bjørkefink) are overwintering here. This is probably related to it being a beech mast year (bøkefrø). There’s a large copper […]
Annuals / Spice
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Black onion seed in Malvik
A first for my garden and something I hadn’t thought was possible until a couple of years ago. I harvested black onion seed for the first time this […]
Book
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5 years of Around the World in 80 plants
Thanks to everyone for supporting me on the perennial edible adventure I’ve been on since my little story was published 5 years ago today! It’s not too late […]
Drying / Edimentals / Fruit
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Cornelian Cherries and Polish Olives in Trondheim
I’ve long had a Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) in the garden without a partner. The oldest is maybe 20 years old. I’ve several times tried to propagate more […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables / woodlander
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Parasenecio hastatus
I’ve harvested seed of a distinctive tall oriental woodlander this week, Parasenecio hastatus. It’s taller than I am and reminds me of some of the tall Lactuca species I […]
Berries / Birds
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More waxwings
More waxwing (sidensvans) videos from the garden. 1) Eating elderberries 2) Displaying flycatching skills 3) A dazed bird on the ground outside the front door; presumably it collided […]
Winter protection
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Winter ready perennial kales
This week I’ve spent a lot of time preparing various less hardy plants for winter, laying down blackberry canes and covering with leaves and jute sacking to hold […]
Berries / Birds
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Female blackaps
A female blackcap (munk) was feeding on rowan berries below the house this morning. I see blackcaps a few times every winter nowadays, an increasingly common overwintering bird, […]
Sun
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Dawsk 13th November 2019
Now rising at 9:25….and we’re entering the most beautiful time of year here (in my opinion) with extended dawns and dusks merged into one, let’s call it dawsk […]
Food / Fungi / Invasive plants
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Himalayan Balsam and Albatrellus ovinus pizza
Tonight’s veggie pizza (with part of the bread dough as I’m also baking bread this evening) had some unusual for me ingredients: perennial kales, a mix of oriental […]
Birds
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Jackdaws over the bay and house
A large flock of around 800 Jackdaws (kaie) soared playfully above the bay this afternoon in the cold air (approaching a week of sub-zero C temperatures), probably put […]
Berries / Birds
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Surrounded by waxwings
I was working in the garden this afternoon when a large flock of some 400 waxwings arrived. They are quite trusting and happily fed on hawthorn berries as […]
Birds
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Pine grosbeaks in the garden
Great excitement this morning! I noticed a flock of birds from my desk that landed in a rowan tree. My first impression was fieldfares (gråtrost) and waxwings (sidensvans) […]
Seminar / Talks
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Seminar on Community Seed Banks in Oslo
On 31st October, I took part in a seminar at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo on Community Seed Banks with interesting talks and discussions with pioneers of […]
Root crops
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Grated Turkish Rocket
Turkish rocket (Bunias orientalis) is a major invasive in Southern Norway. It is believed that it was spread to Europe in a big way in horse forage that followed […]
Berries / Birds
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Waxwings on yew
Waxwings (sidensvans) are all over the garden this morning eating various berries. It gives me especial pleasure to see them on the yew tree I planted right next […]
Root crops
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My biggest parsnip?
Nothing compared to the monsters that can be grown in the UK, but this is just about the largest parsnip (pastinakk) I’ve harvested here. This is both due […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Winter chantarelles / Traktkantareller
Earlier in October, we found a place with a large amount of chantarelles (kantarell); see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=23655). We noticed that there were also a lot of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell; […]
Berries
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Worcesterberries
Recently, I’ve been eating blackberries and Worcesterberries every other day for breakfast. I love these relatively sour berries which extend the berry season right up to the first […]