An article in Norwegian gardening magazine Norsk Hagetidend from February 2017 about my edible garden:
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I love my habby seeds
Replanting pot self-sowed Hablitzia
Replanting pot self-sowed Hablitzia
A redpoll (gråsisik) next to the front door…and once again Mr. Wren turns up (calls in the background) ;)
Thousands of thrushes, mainly fieldfares (gråtrost) were passing over this morning, a few stopping!
Whooper swans (sangsvaner) flying over the this morning!
I was invited to the opening of a new edimental bed at Incredible Edible Todmorden (West Yorkshire) in September, but sadly couldn’t make it :( It was designed by a landscape gardener from Harrogate as part of her university degree course! The task was to make a totally edimental bed!!
See the first two videos:
See my album of pictures from my visit in May 2015
…and more about the visit here:
I certainly didn’t think I would make a blog post with this name today! This is possibly my strangest post ever….
To explain, I was cleaning and packing seed in the garden today (a beautiful sunny day here) and I noticed that the seed of an Allium I’d just cleaned seemed a bit “nervous” or jumpy, jumping as soon as I touched them! They don’t have an English name, they are simply Allium ovalifolium var leucoNERVUM….. I decided to film this strange phenomenon (see the video below)…..and at about 1 minute my friend the wren decided he wanted to be part of the action and starts to call next to me (see also yesterday’s wren film)…and then at the end my neighbour can be heard calling me, unaware of the drama going on….wanting to know if I wanted some hen (not wren) manure…..let me know what you think?
Yesterday I had a walk in the steep north facing woods east of Malvikbakk only 5 minutes by bike from home. I’d found a lot of edible fungi here on my last visit a month ago when we had a mini-drought (north slopes dry up last). It’s still very dry in the fungisphere despite recent rains and there’s not much winter chanterelle (traktkantarell) in the woods… No luck this time, but good to be in the woods for 2-3 hours….
Rowan / rogn
Cirsium heterophyllum
Fomitopsis pinicola (Red banded polypore/rødrandkjuke)
Clitopilus prunulus (melsopp /the miller or sweetbread mushroom)?
Clitopilus prunulus (melsopp /the miller or sweetbread mushroom)?
Cardamine
View over Malvik and my house
View over Malvik and my house
View over Malvik and my house
Malvikbakken
Starting a new album of seed cleaned and packed for 2017
See also a large album from 2014-2017 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152657183550860.1073742196.655215859&type=1&l=5d68039f07
and http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=14005
2 31017: Added 45 more pictures!
051117: Added 5 more
081117: Added 7 more
101117: 24 more varieties added
181117: Added 4 more
201117: 8 more added
101217: 3 added
Allium stipitatum “Goliat”
Daubenton x Late Purple Sprouting Broccoli cross
Cottager’s Kale (perennial)
Sea kale (Crambe maritima)
Sanguisorba canadensis
Sanguisorba canadensis
Sugar Magnolia pea (purple sugar snap pea from Alan Kapuler)
Sugar Magnolia pea (purple sugar snap pea from Alan Kapuler)
Rumex sanguineus
Allium victorialis Ex-Røst
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
Ligularia fischeri
Ligularia fischeri
Ligularia fischeri
Agastache (Anise Hyssop)
Agastache (Anise Hyssop)
Allium wallichii
Allium wallichii
Silene vulgaris “Rosea”
Campanula cervicaria
Campanula cervicaria
Cirsium eriophorum (with larva)
Zizia aurea
Prenanthes purpurea
Oplopanax horridus
Crambe orientalis….not many seed…
Angelica gigas
Sanguisorba stipulata
Allium macranthum
Allium macranthum
Valeriana officinalis
Tricyrtis (toad lily)
Tricyrtis (toad lily)
Allium narcissiflorum
Allium narcissiflorum
Allium angulosom
Sonchus palustris
Ragged Jack Kale
Ragged Jack Kale
Clintonia borealis seed
Clintonia borealis berries
Phyteuma orbiculare
Phyteuma orbiculare
Taraxacum rubifolium (red-leaved dandelion)
Phlomis tuberosa
Polygonum divaricatum
Allium “Purple Sensation”
Allium “Purple Sensation”
Parasenecio maximowiczianum
Allium schoenoprasum “Black Isle Blush” (chives)
Dianthus deltoides “Albus”
Allium insubricum
Allium insubricum
Sonchus kirkii
Chaerophyllum bulbosum (Turnip-rooted chervil)
Allium nutans “Broad Leaved”
Seed of “invasive” Himalayan Balsam / Kjempespringfrø (Impatiens glandulifera) will be used on winter baked dishes!
Uncleaned Quinoa “Stephe”
Good quinoa seed sinks in water whereas the chaff floats, an easy way to clean the seed, just dry the seed quickly afterwards
Cleaned Quinoa seed
…but not all the seed sank and some remained in the chaff. Afer 2 days in the damp chaff, they were germinating. Therefore I planted them in a large pot chaff and all,covering afterwards with a thin layer of sterilised soil….this will hopefully give me quinoa microgreens in a week or two!
081117: Rumex patientia (patience dock / hagesyre)
081117: Cirsium tuberosum (Tuberous thistle /knolltistel)
081117: Nepeta “Six Hills Giant”
081117: Rubus occidentalis “Black Hawk” (Black raspberry / svartbringebær)
081117: Rhodiola rosea (roseroot / rosenrot)
081117: Campanula alliarifoia
081117: Cryptotaenia canadensis (honewort / Kanadisk mitsuba)
Barbarea vulgaris “Variegata”
Barbarea vulgaris “Variegata”
Molopospermum peloponnesiacum
Sideritis syriaca, Greek mountain tea
Angelica gigas (Korean Angelica / Rødkvann)
Thlaspi arvense (pennycress / pengeurt)
Thlaspi arvense (pennycress / pengeurt)
Thlaspi arvense (pennycress / pengeurt)
Lathyrus tuberosus (Earthnut Pea; Tuberous Pea /Jordflatbelg)
Lathyrus tuberosus (Earthnut Pea; Tuberous Pea /Jordflatbelg)
Sanguisorba minor (salad burnet / pimpernell)
Cirsium canum (Queen Anne’s thistle)
Cirsium canum (Queen Anne’s thistle)
Scorzonera hispanica
Hypericum perforatum (St. John’s Wort / prikkperikum
Hypericum perforatum (St. John’s Wort / prikkperikum
Hosta “Urui”
Hosta “Urui”
Phyteuma nigra
Cornus mas (from Lund, Sweden)
Allium flavum “Blue leaf”
Allium decipiens var quercetorum
Lathyrus sativus
Prunella vulgaris “Pagoda”
Hemerocallis citrina
Hemerocallis citrina
Hemerocallis citrina
Hosta Ex- Halcyon
Hosta Ex- Halcyon
Patrinia triloba v. takeuchiana
Patrinia triloba v. takeuchiana
Calamintha grandiflora (Large-flowered calamint/ rosenmynte
Streptopus amplexifolius
181117: Podophyllum emodi (Himalayan May Apple /Himalayafotblad) – dried fruit
181117: Seeds of Podophyllum emodi (Himalayan May Apple /Himalayafotblad)
181117: Aralia californica
181117: Chervil / hagekjørvel
201117: Chrysanthemum coronarium “Double”: Shingiku; Chopsuey Greens (Kronkrage)
201117: Allium schubertii
201117: Oenothera biennis; evening primrose; vanlig nattlys
201117: Oenothera biennis; evening primrose; vanlig nattlys
201117: Serious amounts of Udo (Aralia cordata) seed!
2011117: Udo (Aralia cordata) seed!
201117: Inula helenium; Elecampane; Alantrot
101217: Lavatera arborea “Variegata”
101217: Lavatera arborea “Variegata”
101217: Allium schubertii
101217: Crataegus rotundifolius
Sambucus nigra “Samyl” is a new Danish variety of elderberry / svarthyll. It is very productive, the earliest elderberry I’ve grown (they are marginal here), hardy and it has large berries and large umbels of flowers…
I’ll be offering hardwood cuttings to members of Norwegian Seed Savers (Kvann) this winter (to be a member go to http://kvann.org and click on “Bli medlem”!
See also earlier posts on my web site here:
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Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden