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 […]
Dandelions / Macrogreens / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots
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Macrogreens and the first Dandelion Flowers
MACROGREENSI harvested dandelion roots in November and stored them in the cellar until mid-January when we moved it into the living room and the first leaves were harvested […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bulbs / Garden tour / Winter shoots
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Edibles in the January Bulb Garden at the Gothenburg Botanics
On my way north from Vienna to Oslo, I found myself unexpectedly with a 4 hour wait in Gothenburg in Sweden, and there was no hesitation to visit […]
Blanching / Dandelions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Winter shoots
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Sprouts in the cellar
A much warmer winter than normal and I returned home to well developed blanched dandelion shoots in the cellar together with horseradish shoots and the sweet cicely shoots […]
Winter shoots
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The first winter shoots
A nice contrast between the winter’s first shoots on the window sill (sown about 1 week ago) as the storm rages outside :) These are shoots of bulbils […]
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 […]
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 […]
Root crops / Winter shoots
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Long Horseradish root
We’re nearing the end of a very mild period with no frost in the ground, so I’ve been doing a lot of unseasonal work in the garden. Yesterday, […]
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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Blanching / Dandelions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Seed sprouts / Sprouts / Winter shoots
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Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1
Last night (8th March 2017) was the first of two events I had been asked to take part in celebrating the diversity of vegetables that our area has […]
Snow / Winter shoots
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Today in the garden
A few pictures of life returning to the garden… Post Views: 126
Food / Winter shoots
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Food diversity events in Trondheim next week!
I was very pleased earlier in the winter to be asked to take part in the Trondheim Kosmorama Film Festival’s culinary programme, set up around the showing of […]
Climbers / Winter shoots
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Hablitzia excavation
I dug out one of my Hablitzia plants today as it had self-sowed in a place I didn’t want it….I harvested a few of the winter shoots and […]
Forcing / Perennial vegetables / Winter shoots
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Udo roots for forcing
Inspired by my visit in the spring to Tokyo’s underground blanching of Udo (Aralia cordata), see link below, I dug up a couple of roots that I will […]
Allium cernuum / Winter shoots
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Sulfur containing winter greens
The most hardy winter greens in my garden are mostly rich in sulfur compounds including various onions (Allium) and onion-tasting brassica, Garlic mustard (løkurt), Alliaria petiolata or is […]
Ferns / Winter shoots
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Forced ostrich wings…
The Norwegian name for ostrich fern is strutseving (ostrich wing) and fiddleheads are now appearing in my kitchen window, two months before they will be out in the […]
Onions / Winter shoots
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Forced Japanese Chives
One of the perennials I’m forcing indoors this winter is Allium schoenoprasum var yezomonticola, which I call Japanese Chives / japansk-gressløk. It’s much more productive than common chives, […]
Winter shoots
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Indoor edible shoots: my living room is alive!!
A collection of pictures of greens now available in my house (15th February 2016), mainly shoots of perennial vegetables! Post Views: 93