A very mild December here and my oldest now 23 year old Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) is very “habby” and has responded well with new shoots […]
Food / Winter protection / Winter vegetables
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End of February Greens
Growing winter vegetables is easy and sustainable without the use of plastics, fleeces, expensive greenhouses and energy by exploiting the “talents” of perennial and biennial plants that are […]
Winter vegetables
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Living room veggies; March 2024
Somebody asked me to show how I force veggies indoors in winter, so here you have a link to a short video showing what is available at the […]
Winter vegetables
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Indoor harvest
We’ve been eating dandelions every day this year and now the first batch that I brought up from the cellar is flowering: We ate that one yesterday, but […]
Art Exhibition / Salad / Winter vegetables
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Unpacking the Edimentals Herbarium
Being the focus of an art installation wasn’t something I ever imagined, but since February an installation has been exhibited at the Trondheim Art Museum Gråmølna based on […]
Climbers / Food / Onions / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Habby Chicago Eggs
I was showing a journalist around the winter edible garden and cellar this morning and dug up some nodding (Chicago) onions (Allium cernuum) and picked a few Hablitzia […]
Cellar vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Cellar and Garden Greens: 6th April 2022
The greens that went into last night’s wholegrain spelt quiche are listed below the picture!CELLAR: Dystaenia takesimana shoots; Forced hogweed (bjørnekjeks) shoots (Heracleum spp.); Forced Taraxacum (dandelion / […]
Dandelions / Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Dissected dandelion bud
We’ve been eating dandelions for lunch every day now for almost 3 months from the roots dug in the autumn and there’s still loads (see my post in […]
Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Forced March Perennial Greens
In order to lengthen the season for harvesting of perennial vegetables, I dig up roots of a selection in the autumn and plant them in garden soil in […]
Onions / Winter vegetables
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Still green after the freeze
Since New Year, only one day had been slightly above zero with temperatures regularly below -15C, but then a big shift in the weather happened a few days […]
Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Winter garlic shoots 2020-2021
I started this week sprouting the first garlic bulbils of the winter. Of the garlic varieties I grow, Aleksandra, Estonian Red and Valdres are all very similar (I […]
Harvest / Winter vegetables
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Harvesting winter vegetables before the freeze
I’ve been self-sufficient in fresh vegetables year round and have blogged and lectured about how I can do this even in winter without a greenhouse, without a freezer […]
Cleaning seed / Seed sAVING / Seed sprouts / Winter vegetables
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Self-sufficient in Cress
One of the easiest seed to save is cress /karse (Lepidium sativum). You can grow a lot of seed in a small space, it dries well on the […]
Article / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Giant Ulleung Celery
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 […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Winter vegetables
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Winter Tradescantia shoots
I’d potted up some Tradescantia ohiensis shoots in the autumn as I’d planned to offer a few roots to members of the Norwegian Seed Savers’ (KVANN) perennial vegetable […]
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Dennis’ veggies
As Storm Dennis brought similar temperatures to southern England to Malvik, this was today’s harvest from the garden….more like mid-April. These were used in a stew: Alliaria petiolata […]
Forcing / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Horseradish harvest
This week, I also harvested horseradish (pepperrot) roots. Some will be ground to be used fresh, usually with lunch and some will be forced in the dark later […]
Forcing / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Preparing dandelions for forcing
The weather was a bit milder over the last few days, thawing sufficiently so that I could crowbar dandelion roots from the frozen soil and pot them up […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Snow harvest
It snowed all day yesterday, but it’s unfrozen underneath and spring bulbs like snowdrops (snøklokke), coltsfoot (hestehov), winter aconite (vinterblom), Crocus tommasianus and Hepatica transylvanica are in flower […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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The first garden forage of the year!
After 3-4 weeks of snow cover, the weather this week changed dramatically and we had the second warmest February day over the last 100 years with over 10C! […]
Food / Perennial vegetable shoots / Winter vegetables
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Winter quiche
I’m often asked what I do with all my winter perennial shoots and other stored vegetables! One favourite is a vegetarian quiche (eggepai). Easy to make and it […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Salad / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad
The Less than Extreme Salad Man has been in action with the year’s multi-species salad! A few hours before the polar low storm hit and snow covered the […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Salad / Talks / Winter protection / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!
Thank you Emilia Rekestad for putting last week’s webinar on winter perennial vegetables up more permanently on youtube. Emilia first introduces the webinar and the polyculture project through […]
Sprouts / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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January vegetables from cellar and window sills
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