A few months ago, I found an Excel file with a complete list of ingredients in my 537 plant species (including varieties) unofficial world record salad from 2003. […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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7th August multisalad
A little composition put together last night together with my daughter and artist friend from UK and wwoofer Kristina from Czech…including Allium macranthum (centerpiece), Allium carinatum pulchellum “Album”, […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Chicory flower season
I let chicories self-sow in the garden and after introducing many vegetble cultivars and ornamentals I have a bit of a mix of flower colours and forms! Here […]
Bees / Edible flowers / Edientomental / Edimentals / Root crops / Uncategorized
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Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!
The most successful of the half dozen Phyteuma species I’ve tried in my garden has been a plant received as Phyteuma nigrum (syn. Phyteuma spicatum ssp nigrum), black […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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Half my age party!
I “noticed” a few days ago that my little girl Hazel had reached half my age (in number of days)! It was noticed that Hazel would be half […]
Bulbs / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Oriental and asiatic hybrid lilies
This is an asiatic hybrid lily growing in the garden of the flat I stayed in in Jondal during the Nordic Permaculture Festival! According to wikipedia, asiatic hybrids […]
Bulbs / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Edimentalilies
I’ve been enjoying my edimental lilies this week and eating the flowers, both as salad and in last night’s tempura! More about edible lily bulbs in the following […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Beschorneria yuccoides
One of the world’s most spectacular edimentals was in flower at Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland where I was doing an edimentals walk and talk at the weekend! […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers
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Taraxacum atrata
Potted on seedlings of Taraxacum atrata….I thought this was a new (for me) white flowered dandelion, but it turns out this is a synonym of T. pamiricum which […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Sea kale broccoli end of May salad
Just expressing some feelings through a salad ;) With sea kale broccolis, tulip flowers, Allium zebdanense (Lebanon onion) flowers, Aster scaber, sorrel, patience dock, Mertensia paniculata, Allium schoenoprasum […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers
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White-flowered dandelion
The Japanese white-flowered dandelion, Taraxacum albidum showed its beautiful face yesterday :) Post Views: 119
Edible flowers / Food
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More Fast Slow Food
Fast Slow Food: From garden to table in 20 minutes or less… As related in my book and my talks over the years, some of the best food […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables
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Late May flowers in the Edible Garden
A selection of late May flowers in the Edible Garden: Post Views: 112
Edible flowers
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Begonia still flowering
One edible flower still going strong in my living room on 13th February! A Begonia, but unknown species! Post Views: 112
Edible flowers / House plants
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Edimental Begonia
Begonia flowers are edible and taste sour. The leaf stalks of some species have also been eaten. This Begonia was given to me by Grennessminde nursery just outside […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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The Last PDC salad
The last salad of this year’s PDC course here in Malvik…there’s still a lot of colour in the garden and house! Post Views: 113
Edible flowers / Tubers
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Oca still in full flower
Two or three of my oca (Oxalis tuberosa) cultivars were still in flower this week! Post Views: 113
Edible flowers / Foraging / Salad
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Trondheim Food Festival Renaissance Salad
Following my 2002 renaissance salad at the botanical garden in Trondheim in 2002 (see www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=14320), I followed this up at the Trondheim Food Festival (Matfestivalen) on 5th August […]
Edible flowers / Herbs / Salad
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THE 2002 RINGVE RENAISSANCE MEGASALAD
(This is a translation of a 2002 article about the salad in Norwegian, see here for the original article in Norwegian: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=5668) The renaissance garden at the Ringve […]
Edible flowers / Fruit
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Saturday in Hurdal
Good to meet Randy Gunnar Lange and Ingunn Bohmann of Eikeløkka in Hurdal on Sunday! Eikeløkka is a permaculture farm under development on the island group Hvaler in […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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The last PDC #2 Supper
Another great long PDC weekend here in Malvik lead by Norway’s Mr. Permaculture, Jan Bang! Some pictures from the last meal for this time….before we all meet again […]
Drying / Edible flowers / Edimentals / Nursery / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Talks
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Around the world in 80 Alliums
Yesterday, I gave my first talk about my (second) love of onions (alternative title All you wanted to know about Alliums but were afraid to ask!)….fittingly in the […]
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 […]
Edible flowers / Food
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Tonight’s slow quiche
100% coarse organic rye and emmer pie crust (flour and butter) kneeded into the pie dish (not rolled out), then a layer of blue cheese, then mixed vegetables […]