I carried out the final day of planting of the new Allium garden at the Ringve (Trondheim) botanical garden this week giving a total of 265 different perennial […]
Beans / Perennials
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Perennial thicket bean update
A hardy perennial bean has been a wish amongst permaculturists for some years, and one of the most interesting species is Phaseolus polystachios. Jonathan Bates of Paradise Lot […]
Edible flowers / Foraging / Salad
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Trondheim Food Festival Renaissance Salad
Following my 2002 renaissance salad at the botanical garden in Trondheim in 2002 (see www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=14320), I followed this up at the Trondheim Food Festival (Matfestivalen) on 5th August […]
Edible flowers / Herbs / Salad
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THE 2002 RINGVE RENAISSANCE MEGASALAD
(This is a translation of a 2002 article about the salad in Norwegian, see here for the original article in Norwegian: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=5668) The renaissance garden at the Ringve […]
Potato / Tubers
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Potato diversity in Malvik; 11th September 2011
Top row (second picture): Kefermarkt Rote, Negresse, Ås, Troll, King George, Røde fra Skjåk, British Queen, King George Middle row: Blå Kongo, Rocket, Russepotet, Sava, Kampion, Yellow […]
Climbers / Tubers
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Andes in Malvik 2008
In 2008 I still had a greenhouse. After it was destroyed in the 26th December 2011 I decided not to rebuild it and to only grow hardy vegetables. […]
Edible flowers / Fruit
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Saturday in Hurdal
Good to meet Randy Gunnar Lange and Ingunn Bohmann of Eikeløkka in Hurdal on Sunday! Eikeløkka is a permaculture farm under development on the island group Hvaler in […]
Fjord views / Malvik
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Windy day in Malvik
Back in Malvik again and it’s a blustery day and really dry and still quite warm in the garden with no rain now for 2 weeks and only […]
Garden tour / Permaculture / Salad
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Annual meeting of Norwegian Permaculture Association in Trondheim
Pictures from the Norwegian Permaculture Association’s Annual Meeting in Trondheim in June 2011 including design of the new Permabed at Svartlamoen and visit to the Edible Garden in […]
Seed
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Saving seed from edible plants
An album for a “few” pictures from the wild and wonderful world of seed collecting….. Post Views: 281
Course / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables / Permaculture
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Having permafun in Porsgrunn
Back in Nesodden (family visit) after two great days celebrating økouka (national organic week) in Porsgrunn! Thanks to Gunn Marit and Anne Sofie for inviting me and for […]
Birds / Sun
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Sunrise at the breakfast table
Another unseasonally “balmy” day in Malvik! Despite a clear night, it was warm enough to breakfast in the garden at sunrise at 7:15 with a beautiful sunrise, joined […]
Birds
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Birds from the breakfast table
A brambling and chiffchaff / willow warbler joined me for breakfast as did a flock of starlings feeding in birch trees… Post Views: 179
Onions
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The Equinox Garlic Dance
….is an annual celebration of garlic, king of the tasty Alliums! First, some pictures from the 2012 event: …and a few pictures from today’s (2017) event: Post Views: […]
Herbs / Medicinal plants / Spice
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Epazote
Epazote (sitronmelde) used to be called Chenopodium ambrosioides, but has been renamed Dysphania ambrosioides… It’s a short-lived perennial which can be overwintered in a cool room, resprouting from […]
Butterflies and moths / Insects / Uncategorized
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Insects on Hemp Agrimony
Next best after Buddleja as a butterfly attractant in my garden and complementing it as it comes into flower just as Buddleja is finished: Eupatorium cannabinum (hemp agrimony […]
Fungi
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Productive morning in the woods
I was surprised to find so many chantarelle and winter chantarelle in the woods this morning. It’s pretty dry here now in this unusually warm late September weather…so […]
Onions
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The Allium Garden at Ringve #2
Just finished two and a half pretty intensive focused days working on the new Ringve (Trondheim) Botanical Garden Allium beds, digging up, cleaning, planting and documenting…..these two beds […]
Climbers
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Hog peanut
Hog peanut, Amphicarpaea bracteata, one of the varieties sent to me by Owen Smith in 2012 is still alive, although hardly thriving, mainly as it’s overcrowded by a kiwi […]
Fibre plant / Medicinal plants / Perennial vegetables
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Slender nettle
Urtica gracilis (often classified as a subspecies of stinging nettle, Urtica dioica subsp. gracilis) is a widespread nettle species in North America including Canada and Alaska. It has […]
Birds / Nut trees
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The nuthatch and the hazelnut
Breakfast in the garden and a nuthatch (spettmeis) was dealing with a wild hazelnut in the birch tree above me :) Post Views: 269
Annuals / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial puha, Sonchus kirkii in Malvik
Sonchus kirkii is the original perennial sow thistle (puha) of the Maori which I’ve long wanted to try (see the account in my book Around the World in […]
Annuals
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Edible gutters
Not clearing out the roof gutters, this Sonchus oleraceus (common sow thistle) has found its place and a new form of edible roof gardening is founded, edible gutter […]
Birds
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Fieldfare on rowan
Fieldfare (gråtrost) on rowanberries in the garden! Post Views: 107
Salad
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158 ingredient salad list
The 17th September 2017 158 ingredients salad ingredients list :) Adenophora liliifolia (flower) Aegopodium podagraria; Ground Elder / Skvallerkål Agastache foeniculum; Anise Hyssop; Anisisop Agastache foeniculum alba; […]