The smallest of the tubers in yesterday’s dinner (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=9577) was so-called rice lily or riceroot (Fritillaria camschatensis), small (but many) sweet tasting tubers that often lie right […]
Food
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113 veggies in the first week of January!
The ingredients list for last night’s extreme green pasta sauce ended at 57 (all collected inside in the living areas or the cellar stores), which together with Sunday’s […]
Salad
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1st January fantasy salad in Malvik!
With the fantasy salad queen from Naturplanteskolen on a visit to Malvik’s Extreme Salad Man, we just had to combine forces and created a diversity salad for dinner..and […]
Root crops / Tubers
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Forcing Andean root crops for winter greens
I was potting up ocas and ullucos outside this afternoon (to force for winter greens) and there was a sudden hail storm . The pots are brought inside […]
Fjord views / Seaweed
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Maximum fertility
There couldn’t be more fertility on the beach than now, it’s full up Post Views: 100
clouds
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Nacreous clouds (mother of pearl) over Trondheim
The last two days of 2016 were basically dull stormy days here in Malvik, but then suddenly the gaps in the clouds were illuminated by amazing rainbow-like high […]
Root crops / Tubers
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..and end of the year Yacon harvest
Yacon (Polymnia edulis/Smallanthus sonchifolius) also gives higher yields when grown on inside until the end of the year in a large pot; however, it is much less day […]
Root crops / Tubers
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End of the year Andes in Malvik tuber harvest
As the psychedelic (colour not effect) Andean tubers Oca (Oxalis tuberosa), Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus) and Achira (Canna edulis) benefit from a longer season than I can give them […]
Salad
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Salad wall
There’s now even salad ingredients on the walls of my living room ;) I bought this from Terje Visnes‘ photo exhibition at RAMM in Trondheim (http://www.trondheimramm.no); see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=7989 […]
Sweetener
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100% self-sufficient in sugar at 63.5N!
I gave up sugar poison completely over 10 years ago, apart from the once a year suck on my living room sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) :) This is a […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Wild Edibles
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Around the world with Erythroniums
As an introduction to two soon to be published blog posts concerning visits to two nature reserves in Japan during the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum) in […]
Children's games
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Interconnected
Back in the early 1990s I bought a book by leading Norwegian ethnobotanist Ove Arbo Høeg (and Helga Hjort) “Barkebåt og kongleku”, all about games children played with […]
Fruit
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A nice pair of Boothby’s Blonde Cucumber
When I had a greenhouse, I used to grow an heirloom cucumber called Boothby’s Blonde…and one year, this “pair” appeared :) See what they normally look like here: […]
Drying / Onions
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Persian shallot confusion!
I’ve also harvested onions of Allium stipitatum “Album”, one of the so-called Ornamental onions…but for those in the know also a fantastic Edimental onion. I bought this one […]
Root crops
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Harvesting thistle root!
Forgot to harvest my tuberous thistles, Cirsium tuberosum…managed to find a couple now… See also an older blog about them here http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=2461 Post Views: 310
Biannuals / Root crops
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Late or early?
Sowing carrots at Xmas…late or early? They won’t germinate until April here, good to get ahead of the spring jobs! HAPPY CARROT-TIDE (Carrotmas?) everyone and (in Norwegian) GOD […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Wild Japanese Katakuri #1
My trip to Japan in early spring 2016 was perfectly timed to witness one of the wonders of the Japanese spring, the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum; Japanese: […]
Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Katakuri at Mt. Iimoriyama
This post documents my visit with Aiah Noack of Naturplanteskolen in Denmark to the historical town of Asuke in Aichi Prefecture near to Toyota, where we’d spent the […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables / Wild Edibles
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More seed for stratifying
An early Xmas present from Alexander Naumenko! Thanks! Several new very interesting Alliums, Taraxacum lilacinum (lilac flowered dandelion…hope they will germinate!), Hyssopus tianschanicus, Tragopogon capitatus, Angelica brevicaulis and […]
Brassica
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Diversity of Brassicas in Munich
The best living displays of the diversity of Brassicas I’ve seen was in the Munich Botanical Garden in Germany in November 2015, including an apparently perennial kale I hadn’t […]
Cleaning seed / grain / Seed
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Cleaning quinoa seed
I’ve found the easiest way to clean quinoa and seed of other Chenopods is using water…the seed sinks and the chaff floats…after separating, the seed is dried… […]
Fjord views / Malvik / Moon
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Narrow moon beam
Very narrow moon beam tonight! Post Views: 121
Food / Root crops
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Skirret-chufa stir-fry
Tonight’s dinner, skirret-chufa stir-fry. Post Views: 115
Fruit
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Celebrating chili diversity at Chelsea
Mainly for my friend the Extreme Chili Guy, Chris Fowler, who reportedly maintains a collection of over 1,000 chilis in South Wales, here’s an album of pictures from […]