I’ve sowed 104 new perennial edibles , mostly Alliums… They will spend the rest of the winter outside under my cold frame and hopefully germinate in the spring! […]
Cellar vegetables / Food
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Home grown quinoa patties
A long way from home, I composed these Malvik grown quinoa patties tonight and they were pretty damned good! I boiled the quinoa, mixed with fried leek, garlic, chili, […]
Drying / Food / Fruit
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First load of wood dried apples
My first (of many) loads of apples drying over the wood stove! I’m 100% self-sufficient in fruit and never buy bananas, oranges etc. and don’t use a freezer. […]
Fjord views / Moon
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Bright night lights
Some pictures from the house of the bright moon reflections this evening 14th December… Post Views: 113
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions
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A bunch of nodding edimental onions
Two pictures from the end of June 2014 of possibly my favourite onion, the nodding onion (Allium cernuum) from North America in some of its myriad of forms…beautiful […]
Book / Edimentals
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Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004
The first time my garden was featured in a book was in former Norwegian TV gardener and gardener for the King, Tor Smaaland’s 2004 book “Din drømmehage”. The […]
Birds
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Birds in the garden
It was difficult to concentrate at the weekend as there was so much happening outside the living room window…here’s a selection of still pictures and videos of birds […]
Birds
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Greenfinch taking food from the bill of a hawfinch
Following up on yesterday’s film, here we see a greenfinch trying to take morcels of seed from a hawfinch (kjernebiter)..I saw this several times today and yesterday…it happens […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Root crops
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Pepper-root
“Pepperrot” is the Norwegian name, also known as common man’s wasabi, it’s horseradish, Armoracia rusticana, a multipurpose, perennial, high yield, very hardy vegetable used not only for the […]
Moon
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Moon rolls along horizon before taking off!
I hadn’t noticed this little detail before… :) Post Views: 121
Fjord views / Garden views / Snow
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Blinding light!
After a really dark grey day yesterday, I woke up to a blinding light! Post Views: 86
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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My first wild Hablitzia accession
10 years ago in July 2006, I received an email seed request from a Sergey Banketov in the Caucasus. I don’t usually trade seed in summer, but he […]
Birds
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Sparrowhawk
With so much food in the garden, the predators were out too! Post Views: 96
Birds
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Hawfinches and Nuthaches
A flock of 8 hawfinches, a couple of nuthatches, 20 goldfinches, chaffinches, greenfinches and blue and great Tits made for colourful views in the garden today! Post Views: […]
Climbers / Winter shoots
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Hablitzia excavation
I dug out one of my Hablitzia plants today as it had self-sowed in a place I didn’t want it….I harvested a few of the winter shoots and […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Fibre plant
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Nepal Exhibition at RBGE
When I visited the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh (RBGE) in September 2016 I was pleased to find an exhibition of portraits of Nepalese plants, many of which […]
Pulses
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Did the Carlin Pea originate in Norway?
At the weekend, I packed some seed of Carlin Pea, a very old English pea that I’ve grown here in Malvik since around 1990 when I ordered it […]
Biannuals / Perennials / Root crops
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Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon/Chorogi/Madeira vine tuber harvest
Harvested roots of Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon (Tragopogon pratensis), an introduced weed in my garden. It is related to salsify and scorzonera – I eat the roots and force a few for […]
Forcing / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots
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Udo roots for forcing
Inspired by my visit in the spring to Tokyo’s underground blanching of Udo (Aralia cordata), see link below, I dug up a couple of roots that I will […]
Drying / Food
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Broad beans, peas and quinoa
Kitchen cupboard with broad beans, peas and quinoa.. Post Views: 139
Root crops
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Greater pignut
Greater pignut or earth chestnut (Bunium bulbocastanum) is an interesting perennial hardy root vegetable in the carrot family (Apiaceae) that I had in my garden for 10-15 years. […]
Birds
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The Goldies are back!
The Goldfinches (stillits) are back. They are winter visitors here and, as far as I know, it isn’t known where these birds breed, perhaps in the Baltic states […]
Seed
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Scottish Rock Garden Cub seed catalogue no. 70!!
My most important source of vegetable seed the last 20 years is here… :) This year there are a mere 4,333 plants to choose from of which I […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Talks
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A visit to Riverton in March 2015!
At the end of March 2015, I visited the small town of Riverton (Maori: Aparima) (population 1,430) in New Zealand to give a talk at the Riverton Heritage […]
Fermentation / Food
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24 hour oat bread…
You maybe remember I posted about the real Danish rye bread I made a couple of weeks back? See here http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=835 I wondered what the bread would be […]