Presenting this year’s 34 rhizophantastic Xmas vegetables, all roasted in the oven, served as every year in the last 40+ with veggie nut roast, bedecked with the following […]
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Traditional Wapato Harvest
Last year a garden helper, Daniil, helped me to harvest the wapato or duck potatoes (Sagittaria latifolia) which originate from the Mississippi River in Wisconsin. I grow them […]
Perennial vegetables / Tubers / water plants
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Daniil and the duck potatoes
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 […]
Food / Tubers
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Rhizo-bacalhau
We occasionally eat wild fish and bacalhau is a favourite made from Norwegian dried cod that can be found in supermarkets here. More or less anything goes in […]
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 […]
Root crops / Tubers
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A real Oca yield outside at 63.4N
Two days ago, the latest first frost date was registered in Trondheim for 130 years! This has allowed my oca (Oxalis tuberosa), one of the Lost Crops of […]
Dandelions / Oxalis tuberosa / Root crops / Tubers
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Tubers and roots; December 2020
A gallery of pictures of tubers and roots which were harvested in December when I had a blog-free month! Post Views: 126
Heirlooms / Potato / Tubers
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2020 Potato Harvest
Here’s 24 of the 26 potato varieties I grew this year. Many are from the national potato preservation project administered by the Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN). 10 different […]
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Yacon and Madeira Vine flowering outside
To my surprise, I noticed today that both yacon (Polymnia sonchifolia) and Madeira Vine (Anredera cordifolia) have managed to flower outside in the garden before I bring them […]
Potato / Tubers
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Sarpo Tominia: the 17th harvest
I’ve been growing the blight resistent potato Sarpo Tominia every year since 2004 and it’s still going strong, showing no sign of lack of vigour, continuing in full […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Tubers
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Queen Anne’s Thistle: a multi-purpose ediavientomental*
Two years ago I accidentally dug up one of my Queen Anne’s Thistles (Cirsium canum) and I discovered the tubers were quite like the tuberous thistle (Cirsium tuberosum). […]
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Rice lily
Rice lily or riceroot (Fritillaria camschatensis) is a great hardy edimental, and exclusive root vegetable, although don’t expect large yields. The small (but many) sweet tasting tubers often […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / House plants / Root crops / Tubers
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Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant
I used to grow Oxalis triangularis, also known as the False Shamrock for the leaves and flowers. It’s also a perfect edimental house plant here as it likes […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Tubers
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February barl-emm-otto
A multispecies barlemmotto for dinner last night. Barlemmotto? Think risotto made instead with wholegrain BARley and EMMer wheat grains :) The ingredients are shown with the pictures! Post […]
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Happy Edimentalmas
Merry St.Stephen’s Day (aka Edimentalmas!) to all edimentalists :) This year’s Xmas dinner had the following tubers: Lathyrus tuberosus, Dioscorea polystachya (tuber and tubercules aka mukago), Madeira vine […]
Edimentals / Tubers
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Jack-on
My friend Jack-on (Polymnia edulis) enjoys a bit of company and you can see he’s happy! Post Views: 76
Tubers
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Long circular Yam
Two years after receiving bulbils of Chinese yam or cinnamon vine (Dioscorea polystachya) from my friend Søren Holt, I was able to harvest this curious tuber! I grew […]
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 – […]
Potato / Tubers
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Potato harvest at Væres Venner
The first small potato harvest in KVANN’s (Norwegian Seed Savers) vegetable sanctuary at Væres Venner Community garden. I planted 10 varieties of potatoes in the spring…these were virus-free […]
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Potato holiday
This week is Norwegian potetferie or potato holiday. This was originally to give kids time off school to help on the home farm to harvest potatoes! Good to […]
House plants / Nut trees / Trees / Tubers
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Kurrajong: a house tree with edible roots!
Kurrajong is an Australian tree, Brachychiton populneus, which along with other species of the genus make interesting house plants due to their interesting leaves. Kurrajong leaves resemble poplar […]
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Monster spring beauty tuber!
I was transplanting some Allium canadense bulbs today and disturbed this large spring beauty (Claytonia virginica) tuber only just below the surface! I’ve tried growing this species from […]
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Harerug bread
Harerug? Literally meaning “Hare rye” is a plant found in Norway from the outermost coast to the high mountains and is also one of the few edible plants […]
Tubers / Uncategorized
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Last harvest of 2017 and the most colourful!
I harvested Ulluco and Oca tubers which I grow on indoors from the first frost to the end of the year!This is probably the last time I grow […]
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Happy New Edimental Year
Wishing all my friends, family and all the amazing folk I’ve met live and online this year a very happy green year in which things WILL begin to […]