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 […]
Trees
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Clearfell / Flatehogst
In my local area, a disproportionate large area of forest has been clear-felled recently, a practice we need to stop if we are to take climate change seriously […]
Tempura / Trees
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Taranome and taranoki
Despite the cool weather, the leaf shoots (taranome) of the small tree Aralia elata (taranoki) are emerging…but I can’t reach them any more….I should cut it down so […]
Climbers / Perennials / Permaculture / Trees
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Perennials vs. annuals
Picture taken by journalist Heidi Løkken in my garden this week showing my straggling tree climbing Hablitzia together with a French dandelion cultivar “Vert de Montmagny Ameliore”. Before […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Trees
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Hablitzia overwhelming an olive tree
This Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde self-sowed in this olive tree pot and is now intent on taking over :) Post Views: 170
Birds / Bushes / Climbers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials / Permaculture / Shrub / Trees
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Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!
Link added to my list of talks, courses and forages (at http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=262) to a FB event for the Hardanger Perennialen at the beginning of May, what promises to be […]
Berries / Bushes / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials / Permaculture / Shrub / Trees
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Holma Forest Garden video!
Really nice video showing off the Holma Forest Garden in southern Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLEC-dtRdk Link to my post about Holma here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=138 In a special part of the garden, many […]
Book reviews / Bushes / Climbers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Herbs / Malvik / Perennials / Permaculture / Shrub / Trees
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Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian
Thank you so much Alys Fowler!!! She has apparently been “trailing round the house with my copy (of ATW), unable to put it down.” :-D http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/24/alys-fowler-norwegian-edible-garden Here’s a […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Food / Forest Gardening / Herbs / Invasive plants / Perennials / Permaculture / Trees
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Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants
The PDF version is now available through Green Shopping and you can download a free sample!! ATW from Green Shopping The Kindle and iTunes versions are also on the […]
Annuals / Bushes / Climbers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Herbs / Invasive plants / Perennials / Permaculture / Root crops / Seed / Shrub / Trees
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The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015
SEE THE NEW SEED LIST Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2014-15. 12, 13 and 14 in brackets indicates the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning […]
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Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!
An Interview with the Extreme Salad Man Stephen Barstow at www.Shoreditchradio.co.uk on Sunday 18 January at 20:00 UTC This is an interview I did in London with London Permaculture’s Stefan […]
Annuals / Bushes / Climbers / Edimentals / Food / Forest Gardening / Herbs / Invasive plants / Perennials / Root crops / Seed / Shrub / Trees
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From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!
14 years ago and my seed list had some 1,000 entries and I even added a usage code (from Plants for a Future)……… Edible and Useful Plant Seed […]
Edimentals / Food / Forest Gardening / Invasive plants / Perennials / Shrub / Trees
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#ATWselfie
The ATW selfie is going viral worldwide…. ;) Send me yours and it will be added…you will be showing support of a very good cause: the conservation and […]
Annuals / Bushes / Climbers / Edimentals / Food / Forest Gardening / Herbs / Invasive plants / Perennials / Root crops / Shrub / Trees
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Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001
The first time I made a megasalad in 2001 with 363 different plants (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=206) I approached Guinness to claim a world record. They were not interested and […]
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World Record Salad Invite
Sunday 24th August 2003, I earned my title Extreme Salad Man :) when I made a salad comprising 538 varieties of edible plant. I’m still looking for the […]
Bushes / Perennials / Trees
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Holma Forest Garden / Holma skogsträdgård June 2014
In mid-June I visited Esbjörn Wandt for a few days. He is one of the driving forces behind one of the first (the first?) and best forest gardens […]
Bushes / Edimentals / Perennials / Trees
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Alexandra Berkutenko and the Giant Edimentals of the Russian Far East
My friend Søren Holt asked the following on a Facebook thread “Did you ever think of collecting giant vegetables from kamchatska tall herb meadows?” Yes is the answer…and […]
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A little salad recipe :)
Somebody was asking if I still had the ingredients list for my record salad from 2003 with 537 varieties – it used to be on the net but […]