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Edible flowers / Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables / Polyculture / Salad
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Extreme salad film
On 19th May 2017, filmakers Ane Mari Aakernes and Berit Børte of Grow UP City filmed me in the garden collecting ingredients for an extreme salad, made with […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Eirik’s Udo
Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Aasdal Wiken‘s Udo (Aralia cordata) has grown a lot since last year and has one of the best views over Fyksefjorden in the […]
Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Grow UP city salad
Part 1 and 2 of Grow UP city’s film of collecting and making a multispecies salad in my garden in mid-May 2017! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvSB5cb_FXI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUiS0cOhASA Thanks to Berit Børte […]
Heirlooms / Perennial vegetables
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Kvannsafari to Olde in Bordalen
On 7th August, I went on my first “Kvannsafari” near the mountain village Voss in south western Norway Kvann is Norwegian Mountain Angelica, Angelica archangelica ssp. archangelica, one […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia forest garden
A little video of my Habitzia jungle today… I usually train the plants up into the trees , but I’ve let them do their own thing this year. […]
Edimentals / Malvik / Perennial vegetables
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Edimentals in the garden; early August 2017
Here’s the first batch of Edimentals pictures from the garden this week :) More to come! 030817: More added 040817: More added 050817: …and even more added! Post […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Propagation
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Dividing 1-year old Hablitzia plants
Hablitzia roots have an astonishing number of shoots waiting to grow if you cut them down…I like to think that this is an adaptation to human grazing pressure, […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Scorzonera in full flower
Scorzonera hispanica in full flower at the moment!! The flowers are good in salads… Post Views: 74
Farm / Perennial vegetables / Permaculture
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La Ferme des Quatre Temps
The reason for my trip to Canada in March / April 2017 was because I was invited by Jean-Martin Fortier to visit and give a talk and discuss […]
Garden tour / Perennial vegetables / Polyculture
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Kerstin’s polyculture gardens!
I was blown away by Kerstin Lye’s garden in the Hurdal Ecovillage….a great example of a naturalistic polycultural mix of perennials and annuals and a great inspiration for […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Mallow Sorrel Fish Soup
I eat wild fish now and again, but there’s always masses of veggies….and today musk mallow (Malva moschata) is at its most productive, with various Russians sorrels, day […]
Food / Perennial vegetables / Tubers
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Today’s greens
Including Allium wallichii (Sherpa onion), Tradescantia, Ulluco (sprouted tubers surplus to my needs), Allium hymennorhizum scapes, Day lily buds, Campanula latifolia, Campanula trachelium, Allium scorodoprasum scapes, Rumex acetosa […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Food abundance in the Utrecht Botanical Garden
Just look at the abundance of food in the Utrecht Botanical Garden :) Post Views: 231
Perennial vegetables
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Udo Giant!
With summer just about beginning here (well, it has just reached 20C five times this year), this is what my biggest perennial vegetable looks like today….and, yes, I’m […]
Perennial vegetables
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Vert de Montmagny Ameliore
A French Dandelion cultivar, early and productive with very long leaves! Post Views: 101
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Hosta Superstar and Host in Vienna
The genus Hosta is just about my favourite vegetable as you can read in my book Around the World in 80 plants, productive, tasty and perfect for a […]
Perennial vegetables
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Monster ground elder
My ground elder breeding efforts are paying off…. ;) …just kidding…I’m really not trying to breed a monster ground elder, but this one was growing next to my […]
Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche
Tonight’s dinner was a Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche with oregano, poppy and celery seeds on top with cowslip-violet-Allium zebdanense-Arctic bramble flowers….wholegrain barley-oat-rye pastry…. not at all bad :)Anyone else have […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Geirlauk
Sand leek (rocambole) or Allium scorodoprasum gives bigger yields here than leeks, so it’s not surprising to learn that this perennial onion was probably cultivated by the Vikings […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Extreme May salad
Yesterday, 19th May 2017, I spent several hours being filmed in the garden collecting and preparing a multi-species salad, predominantly perennials…and this was the result! How many? The […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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In the forest garden on 16th May 2017
Just a few pictures of udo, ostrich fern, devil’s walking stick, giant bellflower today in the forest garden.. Post Views: 156
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Old growth Hablitzia status 4th May 2017!
Most of this has now been sacrificed (last two pictures) as foragables haven’t come very far where I’m holding a course this weekend (large snow fall recently).. Post […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Tradescantia ohiensis
Attractive young and edible leaves of Tradescantia ohiensis… Post Views: 163
Food / Perennial vegetables
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2nd May Abundance
The change from winter to spring abundance happens very quickly…here’s last nights haul for a very green pasta sauce (it took about 30 mins from garden to table, […]