I didn’t know if I could make a salad just with ingredients you can buy in the supermarket (but all home grown of course!), but last week I […]
Study visit
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Besøk fra (visit from) Arche Noah
Engelsk tekst nederstI løpet av 17.-19. juli var jeg glad for å kunne returnere gjestfriheten gitt av KVANNs søsterorganisasjon Arche Noah (Austrian Seed Savers) under mine 2 turer […]
Food / Salad
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A conventional salad!
I didn’t know if I could make a salad just with ingredients you can buy in the supermarket (but all home grown of course!), but last week I […]
Berries
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Glencoe-like fruit from Black raspberry seed!
During early 2019, I sowed seed of black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis Ex-Black Hawk. The seed were harvested from some plants in my garden received originally as seed from […]
Birds
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Siskin visit
The first time a siskin (grønnsisik) decided to pay me a visit, found yesterday inside the house (a young bird)! Post Views: 118
Edible flowers / Edientomental / Perennial vegetables
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Toad lilies: great edientomentals
Toad lilies (Tricyrtis sp.) are great edientomentals from the Far East; i.e. both food for us to eat (the edi bit), eye food (the mental bit ;) […]
Butterflies and moths / Insects
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Poplar Hawk Moth / Ospesvermer
The last time I saw one of these in the garden was in 1998: poplar hawk moth / ospesvermer. Today, one turned up in my light trap, and […]
Garden tour / Onions
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The Onion Garden Chicago on 3rd July 2024
The Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim, Norway contains over 100 Allium species and over 400 different accessions including a collection of old Norwegian […]
Molluscs / Parasitic
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A pulsating snail in the garden!
This must qualify as the weirdest organism I’ve found in my garden and likely to give me nightmares, so you are warned! A snail and bird parasite that […]
Birds
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Silent Spring / Den Tause Våren
Rachel Carsons Den tause våren er her i Malvik, iallefall på jordene rundt Malvik sentrum og Vikhammer, men jeg har ikke kunne lese noe om dette i avisene. […]
Food
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Sochan and Moly scrambled egg Meditteranean style
Lunch today was inspired by the Mediterranean diet – simple with masses of greens, but with an international twist: Cherokee spinach (top shoots of sochan – Rudbeckia laciniata / […]
weather
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The Balcony in the rain
Wonderful rain on the balcony (aka zone 0.5) with oca (Oxalis tuberosa), 9 varieties of lettuce (salat), tomato “42 days” , dill, coriander, toothache pant (Spilanthes), shungiku / […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Hagevandring med Malvik Hagelag
Dette var kanskje den 10. gangen Malvik Hagelag hadde vært på hagevandring hos meg, over en snart 40 års periode! Jeg meldte meg inn i hagelaget og var […]
Food
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Saint John’s Eve Felafels
Yesterday was St. John’s Eve and many Norwegians (and other Scandinavians) celebrated what is known here as Sankthans or Jonsok with communal bonfires, the big midsummer celebration. Sankt […]
Salad / Stand
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RINGVE OPEN DAY 2024
There were some 1,500 people who came along to Sunday’s Open Day at the Ringve Botanical Garden and as usual KVANN Trøndelag (Norwegian Seed Savers; kvann.no) had a […]
Food
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Perennial Pakora day
On Wednesday (12th June 2024) we made indian pakora with a diversity of perennial veg straight from the garden, served with home grown cilantro raita (yogurt). I usually […]
Salad
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Pot luck salad
On Sunday 26th May we organized a potluck party in Væres Venners Community Garden in Trondheim for the first time! It was a fantastically successful event in glorious […]
Perennial vegetables
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The first Udo photo shoot for 2024
Despite the record warm May here at 63.4N with temperatures up to 30C and drought like conditions (forest fire warnings on the news every day), my now 23 […]
Food
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St George’s Asparagus stir-fry
The St. George’s mushrooms (vårfagerhatt) come up every year under the old birch tree next to my sitting place in the garden. They weren’t really growing much more […]
Dandelions / Seed
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Encouraging dandelions
I’ve changed full circle from the days when I fought against the dandelions to nowadays actively encouraging them in my perennial beds as they will be my most […]
Biodiversity
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Batman, biodiversity and food
I love when my gardening activities attract wildlife and contributes to the biodiversity of this wonderful place!I’m once again growing wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) in addition to Chinese arrowhead […]
Dandelions / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelions in pink, white and yellow
16th May 2024: Dandelions in white, pink and (self-sowed) yellow in the Asian part of the World Garden at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim. I planted […]
Blanching / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Hosta and Seri salad
I’ve been making a little blanched Hosta salad for lunch this week. Just cover your plant before the shoots appear in spring, cut and serve with a Japanese […]
Food / Nettles / Perennial vegetables
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Soba perennial veg stir-fry
This week’s perennial veg stir-fry with soba (buckwheat noodles), Japanese style contained the following (roughly left to right in the picture):Nettles / stornesle (Urtica dioica)Burdock / storborre roots […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Snow onion salad
After yesterday’s video post about the snow onion (Allium humile) I had to make a snow onion lunchtime salad, so here it is; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mOcQ4aUQVIIngredients below the pictures. […]