When I had a greenhouse, I used to grow an heirloom cucumber called Boothby’s Blonde…and one year, this “pair” appeared :) See what they normally look like here: […]
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Celebrating chili diversity at Chelsea
Mainly for my friend the Extreme Chili Guy, Chris Fowler, who reportedly maintains a collection of over 1,000 chilis in South Wales, here’s an album of pictures from […]
Drying / Food / Fruit
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First load of wood dried apples
My first (of many) loads of apples drying over the wood stove! I’m 100% self-sufficient in fruit and never buy bananas, oranges etc. and don’t use a freezer. […]
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My first fig..
I’ve unsuccessfully tried growing figs in my old unheated greenhouse, overwintered in the cellar. Now, for the first time I’ve finally succeeded! This young Bornholm fig grown all […]
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Apple Harvest 2016
Today’s main job – Apple harvest now safe in the cellar, not bad for two trees which have never had more fertiliser than nature supplies…. :) Mostly the variety […]
Fruit / Perennial vegetables / Trees
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Autumn in my forest garden
My forest garden continues to be super-productive, my udo is on its way back to the soil and is preparing for next year as are my three devil’s […]
Fruit / Moon
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Waxing crescent moonglow salad
My lovely daughter Corylus avellana is home again and I made this salad for her with a tomato called Moonglow, grown in her old bedroom in the loft, […]
Fjord views / Forest Gardening / Fruit
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Perennialen II: Alvastien Telste
An album of pictures from my short Perennialen II visit with Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Svendsen at and around Alvastien Telste in Hardanger. Impressive nature, good […]
Drying / Fruit
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Prune plum harvest
Amazing how many plums you can get from one tree and this is only about 2/3 of the crop! Due to the lack of night here in May […]
Drying / Fruit
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Sour cherry harvest!!
My favourite dried fruit is sour cherry / surkirsebær. A good yield this year, untouched by the birds! 050916: Added a picture of the dried fruit…trying hard not […]
Fruit / Nut trees
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Lars Westergaard’s legendary Danish nursery!
Most people into permaculture in Scandinavia know of Lars Westergaard’s nursery in Denmark as one of the best sources of a range of hard to get (and unique, […]
Forest Gardening / Fruit / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Homegrown watermelon berries
Streptopus amplexifolius is a shade loving woodland plant known, amongst others, as twistedstalk, wild cucumber and watermelon berry and has an extensive wild range including North America, Europe […]
Climbers / Fruit
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Olive climbing Hablitzia
A 1m pot grown olive that is now in full flower together with a clambering Hablitzia also in flower… Post Views: 116
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Knud Poulsen’s gardens
Søren Holt suggested I should visit Knud Poulsen on my latest visit to Denmark. He’d visited Knud through meeting him through the Danish seed savers Frøsamlerne.dk. Knud has […]
Berries / Drying / Fruit
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Drying berries
A bit of a glut of fruit in my garden. I’ve therefore been drying raspberries and currants :) At the bottom are the dried fruit, also bilberries and […]
Edimentals / Fruit
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Edimental apples
Apple trees in full bloom are a wonderful sight, aren’t they? I’ve seldom seen so many flowers on them as this and the rowans are also flowering well […]
Fruit / Grafting
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Bonus Day 4 Permaveggies grafting course
It wasn’t planned at all (the best things aren’t), but our Swedish guests Christian Odberger and Dante Hellstrøm stayed over until Monday evening to dig up a few […]
Fruit / Perennials
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Physalis “Indian Strain”?
This Physalis which I’ve called “Indian Strain” is now going into its 7th year. I got this from Seed Savers Exchange in the US. However, that one is […]
Fruit / Seed
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Chaenomeles cathayensis
A packet of seed arrived from a friend in a botanical garden that I trade with occasionally today. Chaenomeles cathayensis! I think there’s enough seed here to turn […]
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Balcony view
Looking down from the bedroom balcony on to a bed I know as “SSHB” (south side house bed, of course!). Here we see Akebia quinata attempting it’s world […]
Fruit / Perennials
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Akebia / Chocolate Vine
Akebia quinata has is now flowering out of my roof about 8-10m up! It’s been in flower for a month, but won’t produce fruit (if it ever does) […]