Edible & ornamental
To celebrate my 65th we made indian pakora with 65 (or so) different perennial vegetables. Going for a new title, this time EPM (Extreme Pakora Man)! Any better? […]
Tonight’s omelette had more or less only wild edible perennial plants from my area in it, although all grow in my garden, managed in some way…with one exception […]
Presenting yesterdays greens used on a veggie 100% whole grain barley/spelt/rye sourdough pizza were:Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach /stjernemelde) (eaten now every day since the beginning of March and […]
A wonderful birthday dinner yesterday!As is the tradition since I left home, my birthday dinner has been Macaroni Cheese with rhubarb crumble for dessert. Mac Cheese was the […]
23rd April 2020 perennial greens used in a delicious quiche (eggepai):Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde)Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely / spansk kjørvel)Rumex acetosa (sorrel / engsyre) Campanula latifolia (giant […]
Falafels can be home grown over most of Norway and if we are serious about climate change should become standar fare in kitchens, restaurants and supermarkets throughout the […]
Victory onion or seiersløk (Allium victorialis) in Norwegian has one of the most widespread geographic distributions in the Allium genus from the Pyrenees to the Far East. In […]
Here’s two favourite companions of the edible woodland garden: Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum) and the climber Caucasian spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides). The plant is for the waterleaf to gradually […]
Mass germination around one of my victory onions /seiersløk (Allium victorialis). I’m not sure where this accession originates. Post Views: 135
Last night’s Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) and Allium paradoxum pesto was of course delicious with golpar (Heracleum spice), garlic, chili, sunflower seeds, parmesan, salt and pepper. […]
It’s 100 years since Vilmorin-Andrieux’s The Vegetable Garden: Illustrations, descriptions, and culture of the garden vegetables of cold and temperate climates was published! The plant I most associate […]
No doubt introduced by the previous owners here as an ornamental and despite the fact I spent a lot of time trying to eradicate it from parts of […]
7th April 2020 perennial greens used in a quinoa stir-fry:Taraxacum officinale (dandelion / løvetann)Allium scorodoprasum (sand leeks / bendelløk) (these grow semi-wild in seaweed on my sea kale […]
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) ia an important root crop in tropical and subtropical climates, but is also surprisingly hardy so that I can have it out in the garden […]
Several Alliums are extremely hardy and can stand green all winter even when exposed to temperatures under -20C. Similarly, young leaves of species that start to sprout in […]
I think that we ate Hablitzia (fondly known as habby) shoots every day this March as the mild winter and largely unfrozen soil brought them on about a […]
(English: Short Norwegian video of a few things I’m harvesting from the garden now)En kort norsk video om litt av det jeg høster i hagen for tiden. Dette […]
Tonight we made a quiche (eggepai) with these vegetables:Allium nutans (Siberian nodding onion)Allium cernuum (nodding onion / prærieløk)Dystaenia takesimana (Giant Ulleung Celery)Brassica oleracea (Perennial kale / flerårige kål)Allium […]
These delicious fresh perennial vegetables were added tonight’s dal towards the endAegopodium podograria (ground elder; skvallerkål)Allium cernuum (nodding onion; prærieløk)Brassica oleracea (perennial kale; flerårige kål)Ficaria verna (lesser celandine; […]
In my world, plants that are both perennial, edible, ornamental and popular with pollinating insects are the most valuable (I term this class of plants edi-ento-mentals) and the […]
We seem to be at least a month ahead of normal this year. I don’t normally see new shoots of ground elder (Aegopodium) until the middle of April […]
Tonight’s sourdough pizza greens, all harvested outside after most of the snow disappeared during the day. From the top and clockwise; Ficaria verna (lesser celandine / vårkål), Allium […]
Norsk: Se lengre ned på siden English: This is the course for you who want to learn more about perennial vegetables and forest gardening in a course held […]
The recording of webinar last week on perennial vegetables is now up on Youtube:https://youtu.be/DO_BdCXqaE0 The webinar was part of the course “Ett år i Omställning” (one year in […]
Sweet cicely (spansk kjørvel) is considered to be one of the worst invasive plants here and is now banned for sale and we don’t offer it through the […]