This time, a treecreeper (trekryper) on the bird feeder looking for tidbits, bird diversity under the feeder, my resident pair of great spotted woodpeckers (flaggspett) and the last video taken from my home office shows a white-tailed eagle flying across the bay and landing in a tree on Malvikodden (I hadn’t noticed when I was filming that there was a second bird in that tree and the first bird looks like he lands on her back and flaps his wings….more than that I can’t see…. ;) Eagles start the breeding season early!
Noxious pizza
I’m still alive and well after last night’s noxious pizza. I’ll explain. I used pea shoots from the living room, onion, Allium cernuum shoots harvested from the garden (I forgot to include Hablitzia shoots), garlic and chili…on top of the pizza, I added seed of Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera), one of the “worst” noxious (invasive) species…
Treecreeper foraging on the ground
The Potential of Perennials for Food Resilience symposium
Happy to announce that I’ll be in Switzerland the week after Easter to attend and talk at a symposium on “The Potential of Perennials for Food Resilience” 
Here’s the symposium announcement: https://www.perennials-resilience.org (more later!).
Excited that I’ll get to meet Mr. Mountain Gardens himself, Joe Hollis, who is also attending. Many of you will know Joe from his youtube videos, like this one on Udo (Aralia cordata): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNzCpfSQWks
Joe has spent 25 years developing Paradise Gardens, a botanical garden of edible plants in the mountains of western N. Carolina!
I will also visit Pro Specie Rara (KVANN – Norwegian Seed Savers’ counterpart in Switzerland!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProSpecieRara
Thanks to Matthias Brück and Katharina Serafimova for doing most of the organising!
Hell is cold this morning
In the video I zoom into Hell where the fjord smoke is drifting this morning, a sure sign that the temperature is under -10C!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway
Drumming in the garden at -10C
This morning it was -10C, but that didn’t stop this great spotted woodpecker from thinking of spring, drumming from this pine tree in the neighbour’s garden!
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North East Gale
There’s an unusual wind direction, blowing a gale from the north east today, a sign of cold weather on the way as a low pressure system currently centred over southern Norway moves eastwards allowing high pressure to descend on us. The forecast is for cold stable weather for the next week with temperatures dropping to -15C at night, the coldest this winter..
Edimentals.com reaches 1,000 posts!!
I’ve just noticed that in the 3-4 years since I started this Edimentals web site / blog I’ve now (this week) reached 1,000 posts!
Below is a screen shot of the most viewed posts! Let me know if its not readable!
The most viewed is my crazy seed trade list from 2000 when I offered over 1,000 different seeds (by no means not all collected in my garden). This has had almost 15,000 views. It is followed by the recipe for my 2001 Megasalad with 382 ingredients, with 11,700 views! Yes, I wrote down how you at home could make this, in detail :) I’ve no idea why the 3rd most viewed post comes up so high, but it’s from my June 2014 visit at Holma Forest Garden when work got underway for Barstows Lund (copse)..
From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant seed list from 2000: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=524
A little salad recipe: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=206
Holma Forest Garden: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=138
Almost as bright as midwinter
It looks as though it will be cloudy tomorrow night, so here’s a few pictures of the almost full moon. Itwas almost as bright as midwinter here at 6pm tonight as the almost full moon shone on the fjord!
More “northern” lights
Some more pretty lights seen from the garden yesterday…
The moon had on some make-up last night, preparing for the super blue blood moon in two days time!
When I saw this light on the fjord, I thought that somebody was being beamed down to earth and would be in for a wet surprise…
…there were two of them…