Wonderful, must see for anyone interested in GMOs and plant breeding! What an amazing, intelligent and warm human being Kapuler is… I was so fortunate to spend a day with Kapuler in his gardens and home on my recent visit to Oregon….I was blown away by the guy…such a warm human being too..
Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015
Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn (Summerhouse and Garden magazine) in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015…..
During the talk it was decided that edimentals should be known as skrúðmeti in Iceland!!
https://www.facebook.com/sumarhusidoggardurinn/posts/1042595959106488
Workshops with the extreme salad man in Iceland in early September!
Two workshops in Iceland on my way back from the US…!!
5th September – 1pm to 5pm Sal Garðyrkjufélags Íslands, Síðumúla 1, Reykjvaík “Ætar plöntur með Stephen Barstow – Námskeið Sumarhússins og garðsins (Edible plants with Stephen Barstow)” See https://www.facebook.com/events/1479525102347465/
7th September – 10:00am to 4pm – Hlíðardalsskóli, Iceland. Workshop on “Plants worthy of trying out in Iceland” https://www.facebook.com/events/1524505947835548 and https://www.facebook.com/events/499988026842767/
Japanese woodlanders
I love these weird and wonderful hard to get woodlanders from Japan and elsewhere in the Far East, many of which are edible. Here are three that are currently flowering! I have yet to try them though…
Perennials vs. annuals
Picture taken by journalist Heidi Løkken in my garden this week showing my straggling tree climbing Hablitzia together with a French dandelion cultivar “Vert de Montmagny Ameliore”. Before I really discovered perennials, this was a part of my vegetable garden I struggled with as it was so dry under the birch tree during summer. Using perennials, the same area is one of the most productive parts of the garden as it’s damp enough when the perennials are growing strongest to the end of June!
Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend talks in October
I’m talking on both days at the Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend at the National Trust Property Croome Court in Worcestershire, England on 3rd-4th October. See the link for details (it’s open to all!)
https://wkgn.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/forum-update
What makes me qualified to talk to walled gardeners? I do have a walled garden you know (where my greenhouse once stood!) :) 
Even Fred Blogs loves my book
I’m now expecting mega-sales ;)
This is from a Facebook exchange :)
Announcing two Around the World events in Seattle
Allium korolokovii
Flowering for the first time!
More edible companions
Hosta sieboldiana “Mira” (the leaves are wavy edged) and an unknown Lilium
