This is the closest I’ve got Yacon to flowering here, grown in a large container…it might just make it as warmer nights and sunny days are forecast for […]
Talks
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Organic seminar 2016 at Bjerkem
Økologisk seminar at Bjerkem, near Steinkjer has become a tradition and it was a great day together with kindred spirits with a wide range of interests and skills. […]
Fruit / Moon
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Waxing crescent moonglow salad
My lovely daughter Corylus avellana is home again and I made this salad for her with a tomato called Moonglow, grown in her old bedroom in the loft, […]
Organic gardening / Vegetarian
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Stussvik and Vidar Rune Synnevåg
On my way from Hardanger (Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Svendsen) to my walk and talk in Bergen in September 2016, I had a great evening with […]
Climbers
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Malabar spinach in my bedroom….
I have Malabar spinach (also known as Ceylon spinach or just Basella), a vigorous climbing spinach which isn’t hardy outside here, but grows very well and sets seed […]
Book
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On she who wrote Jade Balls and Alien Pearls….
Emma “the unconventional ethnobotanist” Cooper has been a favourite blogger in the realm of unusual vegetables for some time and has referenced this my little blog edimentals.com, on […]
Onions / Seed
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Allium wallichii seed harvest
Illustrating the beauty of this plant even in fruit in early October and the large differences of different accessions of the same species.. Post Views: 131
Birds / Fungi
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Long cycle forage to the shops
As I was working from home yesterday and not doing my normal bike ride, I decided to do a longer ride over the hills to the post office […]
Trees
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Clearfell / Flatehogst
In my local area, a disproportionate large area of forest has been clear-felled recently, a practice we need to stop if we are to take climate change seriously […]
Seed
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Seed of edibles from Japan
The autumn’s first seed order has arrived…new edibles from Japan to be sown soon :) Post Views: 106
Herbs / Medicinal plants
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Can Greek Mountain Tea be effective against Alzheimers?
I don’t blog often about medicinal plants, but an interesting research paper from Oslo on the treatment of Alzheimers with herbal medicine has been published, and it’s an […]
Uncategorized
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Seed
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PLANTEKLUBBENS HØSTKATALOG 2016 (NORWEGIAN SEED SAVERS AUTUMN CATALOGUE)
Planteklubbens høstkatalog versjon 3 er nå klar og medlemmene kan nå bestille herfra. Katalogen kan lastes ned her: [gview file=”http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/aarbokgronns_potet2016_høst_ver3.pdf”] Post Views: 181
Perennial vegetables
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The Many Uses of Udo
For the first time freely available is my article in Permaculture Magazine about my largest and most exciting vegetable Udo (Aralia cordata)! See the link near the bottom of the […]
Beer / Beverages / Climbers
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Report on old Norwegian Hop clones
Click the link to download this Norwegian report on a project in which old hop plants were collected from 18 locations around Norway (in Norwegian). Some of these are […]
Berries
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Apricotberries
Wanted!! I’m pretty sure I’ve lost these really tasty raspberries which I called “Apricot” and spread to various folk back in the days of Sjølbergeren (a self-sufficiency magazine […]
Fjord views / Forest Gardening / Fruit
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Perennialen II: Alvastien Telste
An album of pictures from my short Perennialen II visit with Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Svendsen at and around Alvastien Telste in Hardanger. Impressive nature, good […]
Annuals / Edimentals / Perennials
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Garden pictures 24th-25th September 2016
A collection of pictures from last weekend in the garden! Post Views: 263
Permaculture
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Alvastien Telste LAND Centre: the dramatic approach road….
Alvastien Telste is Norway’s first LAND project (LAND officially started up in Norway yesterday) located on a side arm of the Hardangerfjord in beautiful surroundings…this was my next […]
Fjord views / Malvik / Sun
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The Red Sea of Malvik
This morning, the fjord turned red… Post Views: 127
Fjord views / Sun
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Solstice sunrise in Malvik
The sun is now rising close to due East having swung round day for day from close to north over a few short weeks…the sunrise is now rushing […]
Drying / Fruit
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Prune plum harvest
Amazing how many plums you can get from one tree and this is only about 2/3 of the crop! Due to the lack of night here in May […]
Salad
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Danish masterclass mega-salad ingredients
Aiah Noack and Naturplanteskolen have come closest so far to my mega-salad world records. During the masterclass I taught there in August we collected as many edibles as […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Geir Flatabø’s forest garden: Torblålia, Ulvik, Hordaland
A visit to Geir Flatabø’s forest garden which is located high above the picturesque village of Ulvik at the end of an arm of the Hardangerfjord was an […]