It was actually bilberries that were the evening’s objective, but when you see several ceps / steinsopp in the woods and hedgehogs/piggsopp and saffron milk caps / matriske […]
Berries / Drying / Fruit
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Drying berries
A bit of a glut of fruit in my garden. I’ve therefore been drying raspberries and currants :) At the bottom are the dried fruit, also bilberries and […]
Berries / Foraging / Fungi
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Cycle home forage!
Pictures from my cycle home from work with a large detour up into the woods to pick bilberries and fungi! The video that comes first is the magical […]
Berries / Drying
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Wood dried elderberries
Elderberries dried over my wood stove! Post Views: 87
Berries
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Berries 17th October 2015
Sambucus nigra cultivars “Samyl” and “Samnor” – Ripe elderberries were impossible here until these new Danish cultivars arrived…ripe even in a bad summer! Otherwise: Aralia cordata (Udo) and […]
Berries / Edimentals
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The Strawberry-Raspberry
Rubus illecebrosus Eng: Strawberry-Raspberry Norw: Jordbærhindbær This late maturing berry is rather bland tasting until it is absolutely ripe! The size of the flowers and the berries puts […]
Berries
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Drying Worcesterberries and Saskatoons
There’s been an almost complete failure of apples and plums this year (this has never happened before in my 35 years here). I can’t possibly start buying fruit […]
Berries / Forest Gardening
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Watermelon berry
Streptopus amplexifolius has been used for its spring shoots that supposedly taste of cucumber and the ripe berries that give the plant one of its names, watermelon berry….A […]
Berries
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Black raspberry
Black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) perfectly complements my red raspberries here as the one finishes as the other begins! I had my first blacks today (14th September 2015), seed […]
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My first Haskap berries
I’m excited by my first crop of Haskaps (Honeyberries or Blue Honeysuckle / Blåleddved). Even though the plants are only about 25-30 cm tall, all my five neglected […]
Berries / Bushes / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials / Permaculture / Shrub / Trees
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Holma Forest Garden video!
Really nice video showing off the Holma Forest Garden in southern Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLEC-dtRdk Link to my post about Holma here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=138 In a special part of the garden, many […]
Berries / Birds
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70 Waxwings in the garden
70 Waxwings / Sidensvans in the garden!!! I’ve never seen that many this late in the winter here…normally they arrive in autumn and stay around a month or […]