Last night’s simple winter omelette with ingredients I had on hand:Wapato tubers (Sagittaria latifolia)Potato “Blue Congo”Swiss chard (mangold)Shallots “Finland” (an old Finnish / Norwegian variety of sjalott)Barberry (vill […]
Cellar vegetables
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A tour of the Edible House cellar!
I probably wasn’t aware, when we bought the house 40 years ago next year, how important the cold cellar under the house would be. It is largely unimproved […]
Birds / Magazine article
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Fuglevennlige planter
English: A series of 3 articles written for Birdlife Norway’s magazine “Vår Fuglefauna” Jeg har bestandig vært opptatt av å dyrke mat på en naturvennlig måte. Som unge […]
Talks
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Wild Hive Talk at Home in Chandlers Ford: Resonating with Hampshire!
Thank you once again to all the amazing Wild Hive Collective team for organizing my talk in Chandlers Ford, my home town, on 19th November 2023. It attracted […]
Book / Magazine article / Talks
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Free temporary access to my book and articles!
Thanks to my publishers Permanent Publications and Permaculture Magazine, free browsing access is available until Thursday to both my book Around the World in 80 plants, two articles […]
Seed / Talks
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Rare perennial veg seed on offer in Chandlers Ford
Below is a list of seeds of (mostly) perennial vegetables that will be offered at my talk at the Hilt in my home town of Chandlers Ford on […]
Pulses
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Northern Runner Bean Grex
Last winter I sourced 16 of the earliest varieties of runner beans / løpebønner (Phaseolus coccineus), a bean that is marginal in maturing (for seed) in my area. […]
Berries
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Autumn Olives
The 3 autumn olive / Japansk sølvbusk (Elaeagnus umbellata) bushes at the Væres Venner Community Garden are now producing well. This is about 2/3 of the berries and […]
Legumes
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Pea harvest 2023
The garden pea / ert (now Lathyrus oleraceus, was Pisum sativum) is an important source of vegetable protein and can be grown over most of Norway with many […]
Autumn leaves / Trees
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Norway Maple Fall
With cold nights down to -5C currently, most trees are now shedding their leaves and there’s a carpet of leaves under the Norway maple (spisslønn), a tree that […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Havesting frozen winter chantarelles
Spent yesterday afternoon harvesting winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) as much as we could carry out of the woods and almost all were frozen solid making some unusual sounds in […]
Fruit
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Worcesterberries and Cellary
With a series of -4C nights forecast, I’m harvesting and moving the last vegetables into the house and cellar. There are still many Worcesterberries (Ribes divaricatum) in perfect […]
Salad
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Gunnera-Chinese Yam salad
Delicious Gunnera-Chinese Yam salad with goldenberries (Barbadoslykt), Gunnera tinctoria, Dioscorea polystachya (Chinese yam) “Ichoimo”, carrot, turnip, various tomatoes, nodding onion (prærieløk), chicory (sikori), perennial kale (flerårig kål), Worcesterberries, […]
Fruit
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Daniil and the Apples
Having survived the wapato harvest last week (see https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=31597), our helper Daniil Titov was put to another challenging, harvesting the last apples….there are always many apples that we […]
Birds / Fruit / Harvest
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Waxwings on apples
Waxwings (sidensvans) have arrived here in numbers with about 70 in the garden today! Most of their favourite berry, rowan (rogn) had gone by the time they arrived […]
Perennial vegetables / Tubers / water plants
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Daniil and the duck potatoes
We like to give our helpers /wwoofers an experience to remember. Daniil Titov is with us for two weeks and in between the sleet showers we harvested the […]
Uncategorized
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Tim Harland RIP
I was shocked and saddened to hear the other day that Tim Harland from my publishers Permanent Publications (PP) and Permaculture Magazine died unexpectedly on 30th September. He […]
Garden tour / Talks / Walk and talk
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Organic week in Trøndelag / Økouka i Trøndelag
Last week was National Organic Week (Økouka), a busy week for me as I had two garden tours in my Edible Garden in Malvik (the rain stopped both […]
Land Race / Pulses
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Broad Bean Land Race
First and second harvest of broad beans for drying to eat and next year’s seed. This is my “Væres Venner Mix” land race selected for maximum bean diversity […]
Annuals / Seed sAVING
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Black mustard seed
Seed processing season is upon us once again and all available space on window sills is full 🙂Grow your own spice! These are seeds of black mustard /svartsennep […]
Spiders
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Beautiful garden spider
Found this beautiful coloured European garden spider / korsedderkopp (Araneus diadematus) this morning! Post Views: 186
Seminar
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Promoting Perennial Vegetables seminar
Earlier this summer (23rd May; https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=31209) I spent a great few hours together with Eva Johansson and Annevi Sjöberg from Sweden in my 3 gardens. They were on […]
Uncategorized
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Ringve’s 50th Biodiversity Celebrations
Fantastic day at Ringve Botaniske Hagen’s 50th anniversary garden party for the city. The theme for the day was Biodiversity and Sustainability! KVANN had a stand with a […]
Birds
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Robin in my indoors forest garden
The latest avian visitor to my indoors forest garden, also known as my living room (as it’s full of life!) is this young robin, maybe the same bird which […]