Nettle burgers for dinner: Working in the garden all day…didn’t want to spend much time in the kitchen…needed some fast slow food. My helper Daina Binde had left […]
Butterflies and moths / Insects
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Poplar hawk-moth
During summer 1998 I found this poplar hawk-moth / ospesvermer (Laothoe populi) on a ragged jack kale plant in my garden…this is the one and only time I’ve […]
Stand
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Neil Young’s Global Ecovillage and Stavern
Apart from being a well known singer / songwriter over the last 40 years, Neil Young is also an environmental activist and through his 2015 album “The Monsanto Years” […]
Fjord views / Foraging
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11 pm beach forage!
A few more pictures from my beach forage with Daina Binde around 11 pm on 4th July 2016! Post Views: 150
Fjord views / Sun
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Sunset on the shore: 4th July 2016
On my garden help Daina Binde from Latvia’s last evening in Malvik, we went down to the shoreline to look at edible beach plants and to watch the […]
Birds / Pest control
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House sparrow: better late than never
While eating breakfast this morning I spotted these house sparrows (gråspurv) eating diamond back moth (kålmøll) larvae from the undersides of these ragged jack kale plants, sown as […]
alpine plants / Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Vennafjellet: 3rd July 2016
A few pictures from a late evening visit to the nearest real mountain to home, Vennafjellet with my garden helper, Daina Binde! More pictures from a visit last […]
Birds
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Black throated divers
On a late evening trip up Vennafjellet, the closest proper mountain from home and we passed a small lake with a pair of black throated divers. Heavy rain […]
Edible flowers / Garden tour / Salad
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Daina and Martina
My latest garden helper is Daina Binde from Latvia (recently: UK) and has impressed me by her plant knowledge! Like my last helper Lorna Marie O’Lynn, she was […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Pakora hasn’t met this selection of veggies before!
I gave myself a little treat this week and made Indian pakora! Pakora are basically fried vegetable fritters, often sold as a starter in Indian restaurants. The vegetables […]
Birds / Seed
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Greenfinch on Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon seed heads!
I noticed these greenfinches / grønnfink in the garden on Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon / geitskjegg (Tragopogon pratensis) eating the seed! Post Views: 143
Book / Interview / Perennial vegetables
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An interview at Holma Forest Garden in Sweden
An interview with yours truly at Holma Forest Garden in Southern Sweden during my visit in early May. Filmed and produced by Jim Nilsson who did an excellent […]
Onions
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Sherpa basil pesto
Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii) and basil pesto for tonight’s dinner! Delicious! I’ve been growing basil in my office at work since I was a student in Edinburgh in […]
Climbers / Edible flowers
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Hablizzoli
If Hablitzia, the Caucasian Spinach, had been discovered in Italy these unopen flower clusters would no doubt be known as Hablizzoli…Hablitzia broccolis or Broccoli di Hablizzias….Although small, they are […]
Beans / Perennials
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Germinating Phaseolus polystachios
Two of the perennial beans, Phaseolus polystachios, have germinated :) See my earlier blog about this exciting plant here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=3600 Post Views: 163
Fjord views / Local nature
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Malvikodden / Tynesodden
Malvikodden is a fantastic mixed woodland area on the other side of the bay (Malvikbukta) from where I live, sadly largely felled by heavy machinery… anyway, it still has […]
Sun
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Stunning 11pm double rainbow
For the second night running a rainbow developed at about 10:40 and this time developed into one of the best displays I’ve seen, lasting almost 30 minutes when […]
Book / Perennials
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Most northerly overwintered edible Gunnera?
I was surprised to see two Gunneras (both tinctoria/chilensis and manicata) outside at the Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim at the weekend. Reidun Mork told me that they […]
Birds
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The bathing season is upon us!
With air temperature forecast to rise above 20C, I noticed this beauty having a bath from the cycle path… Post Views: 137
Perennials
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Vollinger in Malvik raid
These 4 fun-loving specimens of Homo sapiens from Germany, the US, Denmark and Norway, on a secret mission, raided my garden of some giant vegetables this evening and […]
Fjord views / Sun
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Solstice skies
And a couple of views of our northern skies at the solstice itself at 12:30 am last night..it clouded over soon after, so no moon to see from […]
Fjord views
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Strawberry clouds
No strawberry moons here yet, but at 11 pm this was the view over the fjord. Happy solstice dreams everyone….!! Post Views: 118
Perennials
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Solstice sweet and sour soup greens
Somebody once said that solstice greens are the best…I’d add that solstice perennial greens are even better :) Here’s what I used in tonight’s soup: Sea kale(strandkål), Scorzonera (scorsonnerot), […]
Brassica / Perennials
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Giant Taunton Deane Perennial Kale
On 13th June 2016, I visited National Trust garden Knightshayes Court near Tiverton in Devon, 5 years after I was there last: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=2505 Many thanks to Sam Brown […]