My Persian shallots are in flower. Here they are:
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Also in flower and even taller is Allium rosenbachianum Album (unknown edibility):
400 copies of my book Around the World in 80 plants have arrived in Trondheim! This means I’ll have very heavy suitcases for some time yet, the negative part of being a travelled author/speaker…. :(
VILL365 (Wild365) – Wild Food each day for 1 year and so beautiful too! Rita Amundsen: WOWWWW!!!
A pesto with 230 different onions, served at lunch on Saturday (Allium) (grown and collected by me and prepared by Veronica and Rita) ;)
Why? Because we could….
This morning it’s raining (again) and cold, not a very pleasant day. Whilst conventional gardeners are complaining that it’s too cold to plant out less tender summer veggies in this record cold spring, this is the best season ever for us perennial veggie gardeners! Hardy perennials love these conditions growing prolifically although taking longer to reach flowering stage, extending the harvesting season!
Today, Norway’s fermentation queen Rita Amundsen will prepare a world record ferment with the highest number of ingredients ever, with a little help from my garden! This is part of a one day food preservation course here organised by the local group of the Norwegian Useful Plants Society (Trondheim Nyttevekstforeningen).
Guess how many ingredients will be used by 1600 Norwegian time today (or whenever it’s announced here) and win a signed copy of my book Around the World in 80 plants.
On page iv of my book you will find a picture of my world record salad from 2003!
Despite the continued very cold “summer” (still not over 16C), this morning I heard the last of the common migrant birds on my bike ride, an Icterine Warbler / Gulsanger (this is usually the last to arrive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzAfmhDEHes
I’ll be in Tromsø on 22nd and 23rd June. On the 22nd at 1800… I’ll lead a tour around the botanical garden :) The focus will of course be on what food we can find amongst the garden’s impressive collections! I’m not sure if you need to be a member to join this tour.
The next day, there will be a course/talk, probably at Holt, also in Tromsø. More later about this.
Books will be for sale at kr. 200!
Jeg skal være i Tromsø 22. og 23. juni! Det blir hagevandring den 22. juni kl. 18 i Tromsøs arktisk-alpine botaniske hage. Vi skal selvsagt se hva vi finner av spiselige vekster i samlingene :) Jeg er ikke sikker på om man må være medlem av venneforeningen for å være med?
Dagen etter (23. juni) blir det et kurs/foredrag, sannsynligvis på Holt, Tromsø – mer informasjon kommer!
Bøker blir å få kjøpt til kr. 200!
I germinate seed of perennials naturally in a cold frame in the garden. They then germinate when they are ready. Due to much travelling in May, I hadn’t got round to potting on any of the seedlings that had germinated outside… Luckily it has been very cool all of April and May, so that most of the seedlings were still in good condition. However, there were more seedlings than I had bargained on and I finally finished at 10:45 last night after 10 hours potting on some 160 species in the garden!
So far so good, excellent germination outside of Persian shallot (Alium altissimum) – they had germinated some time ago and the young bulbs are already clearly visible. Planted out yesterday at different spacings to see how quickly they grow!
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With plenty of rain and a maximum temperature of only 16C so far in May with no frost, it’s been perfect growing conditions for my perennial vegetables. My Udo (Aralia cordata) is nearly as tall as me already!
