Yesterday’s harvest mostly from the garden (blanched dandelions and horseradish from the cellar):Ground elder (skvallerkål)Lesser celandine (vårkål)Perennial kale (flerårige kål)Seombadi (Dystaenia takesimana)Dandelion (løvetann)Allium x proliferum (walking onion / […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Slowly Approaching the time of Plenty: Spring!
Tonight’s sourdough pizza greens, all harvested outside after most of the snow disappeared during the day. From the top and clockwise; Ficaria verna (lesser celandine / vårkål), Allium […]
Talks
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Seacoast Permaculture in Portmouth, NH!
Many thanks to Amy Antonucci and Seacoast Permaculture for arranging the second of my two part Around the World in 80 plants talks in Portsmouth, NH on Friday […]
Nursery / Perennial vegetables / Permaculture / Talks
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Perennial Vegetables and Edimentals in Maine
A great evening at the Resilience Hub in Portland, Maine after a tour of Aaron Parker’s Edgewood Nursery where I’m staying! Possibly the best stocked edible perennial nursery […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Floriferous Hablitzia
There couldn’t be more flowers on my oldest 17 year old Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde)! Post Views: 109
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia accession overview 2019
Hablitzia accession overview 2019 The following gives an overview of the sources of Hablitzia I know of (if I’ve missed any, please let me know!) My oldest plant […]
Article / Climbers
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Artikkel om Hablitzia i Listera / 2009
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Article
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Artikkel om Hablitzia i Hagebladet / 2006
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companion plants / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Companion perennials
It always amazes me how edible plants in my garden find their own best companions andystem create together really productive microsystems, often on really marginal parts of the […]
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Habeetsia burgers
Habeetsia burgers or Bloody Habbyburgers? Cooked and ground beetroots mixed with 100% wholegrain barley and rye flour, eggs and cooked Hablitzia leaves and Johannes’ shallots (Allium x cornutum), […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Variegation
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Variegated Habby on Nesodden
A year ago, I reported on variegation on a Hablitzia in my son’s garden on Nesodden near Oslo (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=18162). I gave him this plant a few years […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Hablitzia anti-grazing strategy
I transplanted a 3 year old pot grown Hablitzia plant yesterday and this video shows the many replacement shoots ready to grow quickly if the main shoots are […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia tour
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 […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Snow harvest
It snowed all day yesterday, but it’s unfrozen underneath and spring bulbs like snowdrops (snøklokke), coltsfoot (hestehov), winter aconite (vinterblom), Crocus tommasianus and Hepatica transylvanica are in flower […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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The first garden forage of the year!
After 3-4 weeks of snow cover, the weather this week changed dramatically and we had the second warmest February day over the last 100 years with over 10C! […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Salad / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad
The Less than Extreme Salad Man has been in action with the year’s multi-species salad! A few hours before the polar low storm hit and snow covered the […]
Article / Heirlooms
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Artikler om grønnsaksarven fra Hagetidend
I 2011 skrev jeg en serie artikler om vår grønnsaksarven til Norsk Hagetidend. Etter Skog og Landskap sidene ble nedlagt er artiklene ikke lenge tilgjengelig på nettet. Derfor […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Old Growth Hablitzia today!
My oldest Hablitzia (Caucasian spinach) planted here in 2001 is the right of these two plants, the one on the left is self-sowed! Post Views: 98
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Variegated Hablitzia on Nesodden
I visited my son today on Nesodden (Oslo) and was impressed by how much growth his Hablitzia had put on and then I noticed that one of the […]
Food / Perennial vegetables / weeds
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Ragged Jack kale and Siberian onion sourdough pizza
Last night’s veggie whole grain sourdough pizza had amongst a few other things Siberian onion Allium nutans shoots, Ragged Jack kale seedlings, Hablitzia tops and French sorrel Rumex […]
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Happy Habby Pizza
Last night’s dinner was a 100% wholegrain sourdough pizza with Hablitzia, four cheese and poppy seed topping… The dough was made from a selection of whole grain organic […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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permakulturplanter.no visit!
A great visit from my old friends Irja Frydenlund and Benjamin Bro-Jørgensen from Tingvoll and permakulturplanter.no popped in this afternoon with little Asimina and Ainora (what’s that backwards?!!). […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Mass Hablitzia germination
Hablitzia’s attempt to take over the temperate world continues with this mass germination after 10 days in the fridge! Plenty of plants will be finding new homes this […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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In its 18th year
My oldest Hablitzia is finally growing after the cold winter and in response to higher daytime temperatures over +5C! Post Views: 62
Community Garden
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Verdenshage and Væres Venner
It was the first time I cycled to my office at the Ringve Botanical Garden today and I took the opportunity to see how the new Væres Venner community […]