At the Dublin Botanical Gardens, there was a superb collection of mature Yew trees – here are 3 yellow deviants… All posts from Dublin in 2011 The Vegetable […]
Fruit / Garden tour
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Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin
In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time! Here’s a series […]
Fibre plant / Fruit / Nut trees / Tea plants
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The Silk Oak: Quercus mongolica
Quercus mongolica (Mongolian oak or the Shandong silk oak)! Did you know that the Chinese not only produce silk from mulberry trees, but also from Mongolian oak trees? […]
Birds / Fruit
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Waxwings on apples
I sorted my stored apples yesterday and put out ones that had begun to rot for the waxwings and thrushes outside the kitchen window. This was the scene […]
Fruit / Onions
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This onion is also a fruit!
The onion that thinks it’s berry! Which one? The berry tastes slightly sweet and not at all oniony! Post Views: 111
Fruit / Perennial vegetables
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Cactus pads for my last lunch in Mértola
Thanks to Matthias Brück for preparing cactus pads (nopalitos) from Opuntia ficus-indicus for lunch, a long job by hand to de-spine first, but delicious! Does the old variety developed by […]
Birds / Fruit
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Blackcap on apples
At least one, maybe two blackcaps (munk in Norwegian) were foraging on my apple trees most of today. Post Views: 132
Drying / Fruit
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Glut of Courgettes
What to do with the present glut of courgettes (aka zucchinis / baby marrows)? Once dried, they taste slightly sweet raw! Post Views: 104
Fruit / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Visiting McMillion’s acres!
On Sunday I finally found the opportunity to visit my friend and fellow Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN) board member Andrew McMillion who lives on a small farm in […]
Foraging / Fruit / Fungi
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Forage in Malvikmarka
A productive afternoon in the woods yesterday on the Malvik side of Solemsvåttan with my Swiss helper Julia Albrecht with a good haul of bilberries and the year’s […]
Fruit
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KVANN at Njøs
English: pictures from Norwegian Seed Savers visit to Njøs, an old fruit research station near Leikanger in Sogn! We saw Stein Harald Hjetnes’ own developed Celina pear as […]
Fruit
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Papaws – Asimina triloba – in Norway?
I was asked if it is possible to grow papaws (Asimina triloba) in Norway. I don’t think it’s impossible, but I suspect they need warmer summers than most […]
Drying / Fruit
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Apple moon weekend
At the apple moon coring and cutting apples is a must..processed a couple of hundred apples today, now drying over the wood stove and in the oven. It’s a […]
Birds / Fruit
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Waxwings everywhere
Part of the biggest flock of waxwings (sidensvans) in the garden today, around 350 birds!….seriously distracted all day by these photogenic arctic “parrots”! Feeding on yew (barlind), hawthorn […]
Birds / Fruit
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Waxwing dribbling…
Yew / barlind fruit is rather gooey….the picture is taken from the video of a flock of waxwings / sidensvans on the neighbour’s yew tree (Taxus baccata). Post […]
Birds / Fruit
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Yew with waxwing
My first waxwings (sidensvans) of the autumn…this one feeding on a yew tree laden with berries in the neighbour’s garden! Post Views: 105
Ecohouses / Fruit / Nursery / Perennial vegetables
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Eco-sense
After our visit to the Government House garden, Solara Goldwynn took me on a visit to an amazing inspiring ecohouse, gardens and perennials nursery in the Highlands area […]
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 […]
Forest Gardening / Fruit / Nut trees / walks / Wild Edibles
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Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling
Documentation of yet another amazing day during last week’s Perennialen III in Hardanger!! Pictures taken on a fantastic 6-7 hour round trip from Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege […]
Fruit
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Raspberry Bilberry Leather
Fruit leather is a quick way to preserve a surplus of fruit. I neither use sugar nor Stevia and don’t have a freezer (by choice), so I dry […]
Fruit
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Apple blossom
Astonishing how much an apple tree can produce here year after year after year with zero input! It looks like this year will be no exception. Perennials for […]
Beverages / Fruit
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Would you like a cuppa?
One of the first plants to harvest from in my indoors forest garden this year….familiar? It’s also one of the best indoors edimentals.. See also http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=436 Post Views: 104
Fruit / Garden tour
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The Hampshire Walled Vineyard
Late April 2017 and I finally got round to visit some folks in South Hampshire who I’d met at the Walled Kitchen Garden Forum weekend at Croome in […]
Berries / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Foraging / Forcing / Fruit / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Root crops / Salad / Seed sprouts / Snow / Sprouts / Vegetarian
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Extreme winter record salad
Proof one more time that north is best for growing a diversity of tasty salad greens ;) Presenting (and claiming) my new world winter salad diversity record, a […]