Thanks to Guren Efferus (Efferus Veksthus) for the box of plants which have arrived in good condition….and the box can also be recycled! As the temperature dropped yesterday evening, after […]
Fruit
Posted on:
KVANN at Njøs
English: pictures from Norwegian Seed Savers visit to Njøs, an old fruit research station near Leikanger in Sogn! We saw Stein Harald Hjetnes’ own developed Celina pear as […]
Community Garden
Posted on:
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 […]
Berries
Posted on:
Elderberries are ripe
Sambucus nigra “Samyl” is a new Danish variety of elderberry / svarthyll. It is very productive, the earliest elderberry I’ve grown (they are marginal here), hardy and it […]
Seed
Posted on:
Current offers in Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN) autumn seed and vegetable catalogue
I’m often asked if I sell seed of my perennial vegetables and other plants I blog about. The answer is that unless you have something I’m interested in […]
Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
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 […]
Heirlooms / Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
Kvannsafari to Olde in Bordalen
On 7th August, I went on my first “Kvannsafari” near the mountain village Voss in south western Norway Kvann is Norwegian Mountain Angelica, Angelica archangelica ssp. archangelica, one […]
Plant sale
Posted on:
Plant sale at the botanical garden in Oslo
KVANN/ Norwegian Seed Savers will have a stand and be selling plants at this year’s “Vårtreff” on 28th May at Oslo’s Botanical Garden (Tøyen) (see http://foreninger.uio.no/botaniskhagesvenner/arrangementer/2017/vartreff-2016.html) Steering committee […]
Seed
Posted on:
THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2016-2017
21st January 2017 Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2016-17. 14, 15 and 16 in brackets indicates the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: […]
Seed
Posted on:
Seed sorting
I’m working on this year’s seed trade list and seed to be offered to Norwegian Seed Savers through our yearbook that will be […]
Stand
Posted on:
Neil Young’s Global Ecovillage and Stavern
Apart from being a well known singer / songwriter over the last 40 years, Neil Young is also an environmental activist and through his 2015 album “The Monsanto Years” […]