Walking past the Udo (Aralia cordata) patch yesterday morning I noticed that the shoots had outgrown their bucket and, as usual, had thrown the bucket down the hill, […]
Perennial vegetables / Photography
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Hector and the Disobedient Gardener!
Héctor is from Spain.and is teaching art and photography at the folkhøgskole (folk high school) in Skogn. He is working on a photo-project about vegetable gardens featuring “disobedient […]
Talks
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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 […]
Perennial vegetables
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The annual Udo collapse
Early last week I made this little video after the annual collapse of my largest vegetable, Aralia cordata (Udo) …. the berries/ seeds were collected for sharing in […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Eirik’s Udo
Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege Iren Aasdal Wiken‘s Udo (Aralia cordata) has grown a lot since last year and has one of the best views over Fyksefjorden in the […]
Perennial vegetables
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Udo Giant!
With summer just about beginning here (well, it has just reached 20C five times this year), this is what my biggest perennial vegetable looks like today….and, yes, I’m […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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In the forest garden on 16th May 2017
Just a few pictures of udo, ostrich fern, devil’s walking stick, giant bellflower today in the forest garden.. Post Views: 147
Book / Edimentals
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Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004
The first time my garden was featured in a book was in former Norwegian TV gardener and gardener for the King, Tor Smaaland’s 2004 book “Din drømmehage”. The […]
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 […]
Fjord views / Perennial vegetables / Snow
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Winter Udo
My Udo (Aralia cordata) has crushed two blackcurrant bushes…. Post Views: 142
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Udo farm visit in Tokyo
Here’s an album of my own pictures from our visit to Tokyo’s underground Udo forcing holes… More about Udo (Aralia cordata) on my web site www.edimentals.com Thanks again […]
Perennial vegetables
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Underground Udo video
To see an underground Udo (Aralia cordata) farm has long been a dream. My dream was finally fulfilled this spring and below you can see a short video […]
Seed
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Packing and sorting seed
A few pictures of seed I cleaned and packed for trading, offering to Norwegian Seed Savers and using in the kitchen today! 131116: Added a few more that […]
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 […]
Perennial vegetables
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The Many Uses of Udo
For the first time freely available is my article in Permaculture Magazine about my largest and most exciting vegetable Udo (Aralia cordata)! See the link near the bottom of the […]
Annuals / Edimentals / Perennials
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Garden pictures 24th-25th September 2016
A collection of pictures from last weekend in the garden! Post Views: 194
Ferns / Perennials
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16 days later
The rate of growth of Udo (Aralia cordata) from Japan is phenomenal in cool spring weather, even outgrowing Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach)! The first picture was taken by […]
Edimentals / Nursery / Perennials
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Naturplanteskolen looking good!
I’ve had a couple of meetings in Copenhagen over the last couple of days and I visited Naturplanteskolen again. The nursery was looking really good and plants had […]
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 […]
Perennials
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The Wild Greens of Korea
There are still many undiscovered (in the west) perennial edibles in the Far East. I’m therefore now concentrating mainly on that area in this quest. This spring I […]
Berries
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Berries 17th October 2015
Sambucus nigra cultivars “Samyl” and “Samnor” – Ripe elderberries were impossible here until these new Danish cultivars arrived…ripe even in a bad summer! Otherwise: Aralia cordata (Udo) and […]
Dandelions / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennials / Tempura / Tubers
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Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her […]