Today the position of the sunrise on the horizon passed the point at Malvikodden on the other side of the bay (81 deg., just north of west). Only 10-11 weeks ago the sun was rising in the south, so it changes by some 10 degs per week on average!
Sunrise over Malvikodden at 06:45
It’s a beautiful sunny day here and a patch of Crocus tommasianus opened up in response. Making this film, my first 2019 bumble bee emerged from one of the flowers at the back!
A tour of my garden on 2nd April 2019 talking about one of my favourite perennial vegetables, Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach). It’s extremely early yielding, productive, tasty, can be grown in complete shade, is very hardy and is nutritionally great too. I have currently about 11 different plants, 6 from old gardens in Scandinavia where people have been using Hablitzia as a spinach and salad crop for over 130 years and three wild accessions from the Caucasus. My oldest plant that you will see in this video was planted in 2002 and I’ve been harvesting since January this year, the reason the shoots are not very long! Nutritionally, Hablitzia is also definitely worth eating and contains particularly plenty of carotenoids, folates, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and zinc. Also many other nutritional components were larger in Hablitzia than in spinach and New Zealand spinach (from a Finnish study). See http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=8606
More dandelions brought up from the (dark) cellar, ready to eat! These roots were just stored in damp autumn leaves!
Hooded crows (kråke) and goat willow (selje) coming into flower!