We like to give our helpers /wwoofers an experience to remember. Daniil Titov is with us for two weeks and in between the sleet showers we harvested the […]
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Sam Thayer and Mississippi wapato
As I mentioned in my post about harvesting wapato in my garden a couple of days ago, I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September […]
Tubers / water plants
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Freezing Wapato and Chinese Arrowhead harvest
When I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September 2019, I was lucky to be able to attend Sam Thayer’s Wetland Plant Hike along the […]
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The mini-pond and marginal areas
My house was given the name Bergstua by the previous owners, literally meaning house on the rock, a rocky hillside overlooking the fjord. Not a natural place for […]
Garden maintenance / water plants
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NEW PATH AND A VIDEO OF THE POND
I’ve been using all the time at home to carry out work in the garden that has been neglected for many years. I’ve just finished redoing the path […]
Perennial vegetables / water plants
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Swamp saxifrage salad
The swamp saxifrage (Micranthes pensylvanica, earlier Saxifraga pensylvanica) is a very interesting perennial edible for a damp place in the garden. I grow it in damp soil next […]
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Jorge’s edible water garden
I’ll always be grateful to my friend Jorge Carona as without him I would never have been invited to Portugal. The story of how we met is told […]
Tubers / water plants
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Chinese arrowhead: chestnut and artichoke in one vegetable!
Nothing like the promised “giant” 5-10 cm tubers, I was nevertheless surprised to get maybe 3 times the yield of what I planted of chinese arrowhead tubers – […]
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Brown Cress is Back
BROWN CRESS IS BACK! I received a tip via permies.com that hybrid brown watercress is again available in Europe! In my book I wrote (in the piece about […]
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My pond is back
I finally got my Tiny pond back it into life today after 5 years trying to get rid of the Equisetum (water horsetail?) I foolishly planted many years […]