Over the last couple of years I’ve been trialling celtuce in the community garden (also known as stem or asparagus lettuce / stilksalat). I’ve decided that this is […]
Annuals / Biennial / Salad
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World Garden November Salad
14th November 2024: Although the World Garden I’ve created at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim is mostly perennials, I fill up gaps with some annuals and […]
Annuals / Seed sAVING
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Black mustard seed
Seed processing season is upon us once again and all available space on window sills is full 🙂Grow your own spice! These are seeds of black mustard /svartsennep […]
Annuals / Salad / Seed pods
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A diversity of rat’s tails
I remember years ago ordering seed of a special heirloom heritage radish “rat’s tail” (Raphanus sativus var caudatus) through the Heritage Seed Library in the UK. I remember […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Early July Veg
Here are some of the vegetables we’re currently using.From left to right: Common sow thistle / haredylle (Sonchus oleraceus) will be in most meals from now to SeptemberParsley […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennials
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Indian summer flowers
There were unusually many plants still flowering in the garden in October this year as we experienced a bit of an Indian summer. We’ve now had our first […]
Annuals / Edimentals / weeds
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White-flowered Sonchus oleraceus
I think it was Nathan Shannon who sent me seed of the white-flowered variant of common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus), now blooming for the first time!There are 10+ […]
Annuals / Edimentals
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A diversity of garden orach
I’ve grown numerous forms of garden orach (Atriplex hortensis; hagemelde) over the years as they are useful and decorative (edimental) annuals for the summer garden. Even though they […]
Annuals / Beans / weeds
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No thanks no dig
Before I go any further, I should say that 2/3 of my cultivated area is almost 100% no dig (perennials is the ultimate no dig) as I grow […]
Annuals / Dye Plants / Edible seed / Edimentals / Herbs / House plants / oil seed / wraps
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Red shiso
Perilla frutescens var crispa f. purpurascens (red or purple shiso) is looking good on the window sill in front of my desk! This is an important crop in […]
Annuals / Edimentals / House plants
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Devil’s claw as an edible house plant
Update 160121: The single plant produced many (over 20) fruits and masses of seed. I’ve added a few pictures at the bottom. I’ll be offering seed to members […]
Annuals
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Elephant Head
I trialled over 50 different amaranths here about 15-20 years ago, hoping to find one that was early enough to produce seed in our short cold summer. The […]
Annuals / Spice
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Black onion seed in Malvik
A first for my garden and something I hadn’t thought was possible until a couple of years ago. I harvested black onion seed for the first time this […]
Annuals / Edientomental / Edimentals
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Opium poppy season is here again
My annual vegetable beds are once again aglow with opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) flowers, my favourite annual edimentals. These are my favourite “weeds” that come up year after […]
Annuals / Food
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Shungiku Soba
I have a special fascination for vegetables that are superstars in one part of the world but hardly known in others and one of those is garland chrysanthemum […]
Annuals / Food / weeds
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Garlic Barley Weedotto!
The last two nights, Barley Garlic Weedotto (or Garlic Weed Barlotto) was on the meny at the Edible Garden! I have a relaxed approach to weeds and weeding […]
Annuals
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Bladder dock
Rumex vesicarius (bladder dock) is an annual relation of sorrel from southern Europe, North Africa and West Asia. I sowed the seed in the winter in a seed […]
Annuals / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial puha, Sonchus kirkii in Malvik
Sonchus kirkii is the original perennial sow thistle (puha) of the Maori which I’ve long wanted to try (see the account in my book Around the World in […]
Annuals
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Edible gutters
Not clearing out the roof gutters, this Sonchus oleraceus (common sow thistle) has found its place and a new form of edible roof gardening is founded, edible gutter […]
Annuals / Farm / Perennial vegetables
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A 2012 visit to the Århus CSA near Skien, Norway
Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of a memorable visit to the Århus CSA scheme and Tom Harald Eckell’s magical vegetables with Rita Amundsen, Margaret M. Meg Anderson and Veronica Samycia! Never have […]
Annuals / Edimentals
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Poppy “weeds”
Added a few more overview pictures of my vegetable beds intertwined with poppies! No way are these weeds….so the other so-called weeds are just plants doing their job […]
Annuals
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From Malta to Japan and back again
The article below, published in Grobladet in 2006 is the story (in Norwegian) of how one of the commonest spring flowers in the Mediterranean countries became one of […]
Annuals / Edimentals / Perennials
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Garden pictures 24th-25th September 2016
A collection of pictures from last weekend in the garden! Post Views: 170
Annuals
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A Sonchus oleraceus variety?
It would be a great project to select Sonchus oleraceus…for new improved yielding and special forms like was done with wild chicory aIt would be a great project […]