Last night’s veggie whole grain sourdough pizza had amongst a few other things Siberian onion Allium nutans shoots, Ragged Jack kale seedlings, Hablitzia tops and French sorrel Rumex […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Hosta icicles (yuki urui)
The other day I discovered a long suffering Hosta that I’d covered with a bucket in the spring. Surprisingly the blanched shoots were in good condition despite the […]
Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve on the last day of May 2018
I spent 3-4 hours this afternoon weeding the new Allium garden at Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim! It now seems pretty certain that many plants didn’t make it […]
Seed
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Seed from Korea
Many thanks to my friend Misoni Sandvik for sending me some more seed on her recent visit to Korea…. Misoni figures in both Aster scaber and Bunias orientalis […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers
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Taraxacum atrata
Potted on seedlings of Taraxacum atrata….I thought this was a new (for me) white flowered dandelion, but it turns out this is a synonym of T. pamiricum which […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Sea kale broccoli end of May salad
Just expressing some feelings through a salad ;) With sea kale broccolis, tulip flowers, Allium zebdanense (Lebanon onion) flowers, Aster scaber, sorrel, patience dock, Mertensia paniculata, Allium schoenoprasum […]
Salad
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Bygdø Kongsgårds Mangfoldsalat
Thank you Marianne Leisner for inviting me to Gartneriet (literally, the plant nursery) to pick and tell about the ingredients in Bygdø Kongsgårds Mangfoldsalat (the Bygdøy Royal Diversity […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edibles in Bergen’s Muséhagen
I spent a couple of hours in Muséhagen (the old botanical garden) in the centre of Bergen before taking the train to Oslo on Sunday and spent the […]
Course / Foraging / Talks
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Perennial vegetable course at Landås
The main reason for my visit to Bergen was the Saturday course on perennial vegetables for the organisation Bærekraftig Liv (literally Sustainable Living). We had perfect weather for […]
Forest Gardening
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Food forest at Landås in Bergen
Landås matskog (food forest) is situated under Mount Ulriken in Bergen, Norway. The area was until just a few years ago spruce forest, but when it was felled, […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers
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White-flowered dandelion
The Japanese white-flowered dandelion, Taraxacum albidum showed its beautiful face yesterday :) Post Views: 159
Edible flowers / Food
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More Fast Slow Food
Fast Slow Food: From garden to table in 20 minutes or less… As related in my book and my talks over the years, some of the best food […]
Salad
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Enhanced udo salad
…..and adding a few other things to the one species udo and American spikenard salads (Aralia cordata and Aralia racemosa) and this was the result, the summer’s first […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Salad
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American Spikenard salad
Last night, I tried American spikenard (American Udo) or Aralia racemosa for the first time! Although Aralia cordata (Japanese Udo) had a hint of bitterness after blanching, the […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables
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Late May flowers in the Edible Garden
A selection of late May flowers in the Edible Garden: Post Views: 144
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Udo salad
Walking past the Udo (Aralia cordata) patch yesterday morning I noticed that the shoots had outgrown their bucket and, as usual, had thrown the bucket down the hill, […]
Birds / Fjord views / Sun
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Dawn on 20th May 2018
Woken at 4:15 by a newly arrived garden warbler (hagesanger) (or is it just a blackcap?) singing at full throttle in the garden (sorry about the focus, I […]
Dandelions / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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The dandy that’s pink
The first pink dandelion emerged today, always a thrill. This one is about 11 years old now and hasn’t sowed itself much…I always leave dandeliond to flower on […]
Food / Foraging / Perennial vegetables
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Belated happy birthday to me
The first veggie food I ate was macaroni cheese and chips at Edwin Jones (now Debenhams) in Southampton, a treat when we Mum took us shopping back in […]
Fjord views / Sun
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Sunbeam reflections
Sunbeam reflections last night on the fjord Post Views: 103
Foraging / walks
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Homla walk May 2018
Pictures from this week’s 5 hour (botanist pace) walk along the spectacular Homla canyon, the start about 14 km from home! Post Views: 154
Fjord views / Sun
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Sunrise 16th May
The temperature plummeted this morning as a cold front moved in, replacing the unseasonally warm summer weather. But, before it arrived there was a gorgeous summer sunrise at […]
Book / Food
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Karvekaalsuppe
One of the joys of spring is traditional Norwegian Karvekaalsuppe (caraway green soup), last night’s dinner. This was one of the first wild plants I domesticated in my […]