Hablitzia tamnoides (stjernemelde) is a pretty tough plant! These plants in a bucket have been like this exposed to this colder than average winter, totally frozen for probably […]
Perennial vegetables / Photography
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Hector and the Disobedient Gardener!
Héctor is from Spain.and is teaching art and photography at the folkhøgskole (folk high school) in Skogn. He is working on a photo-project about vegetable gardens featuring “disobedient […]
Food / Invasive plants / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Noxious pizza
I’m still alive and well after last night’s noxious pizza. I’ll explain. I used pea shoots from the living room, onion, Allium cernuum shoots harvested from the garden […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia forest garden
A little video of my Habitzia jungle today… I usually train the plants up into the trees , but I’ve let them do their own thing this year. […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Propagation
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Dividing 1-year old Hablitzia plants
Hablitzia roots have an astonishing number of shoots waiting to grow if you cut them down…I like to think that this is an adaptation to human grazing pressure, […]
Food
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Slow food at last!
After 11 days of mostly fast food, it was good to get home this evening to a jungle of slow food…. Ingredients: Hablitzia, Rumex acetosa, Rumex patientia, Myrrhis […]
Plant sale
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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 […]
Salad
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Incredible Edible Jevnaker
What an amazing group of people who had assembled in Jevnaker at the weekend to learn more about perennial vegetables, edible weeds and edimentals! It was sad to […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Prestigious prize to Ronny Staquet for his work with Hablitzia!
Congratulations to my friend Ronny Staquet who recently won a prestigious prize for his efforts in popularising Hablitzia at the Fête des Plantes de Printemps at Château de […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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My oldest Hablitzia, already vigorous in 2004!
Cleaning out my office and I found a local newspaper article about an open day in my garden almost 13 years ago (August 2004) with a picture of […]
Blanching / Dandelions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Seed sprouts / Sprouts / Winter shoots
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Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1
Last night (8th March 2017) was the first of two events I had been asked to take part in celebrating the diversity of vegetables that our area has […]
Snow / Winter shoots
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Today in the garden
A few pictures of life returning to the garden… Post Views: 131
Article
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Blomster på Matbordet i Nationen
Here is an article in Nationen, a Norwegian daily newspaper with a particular focus on agriculture, from my garden in 2011 by journalist Bente Haarstad. “Blomster på Matbordet” means literally […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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My first wild Hablitzia accession
10 years ago in July 2006, I received an email seed request from a Sergey Banketov in the Caucasus. I don’t usually trade seed in summer, but he […]
Climbers / Winter shoots
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Hablitzia excavation
I dug out one of my Hablitzia plants today as it had self-sowed in a place I didn’t want it….I harvested a few of the winter shoots and […]
Climbers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Nutritional analysis of Hablitzia
My article “Caucasian spinach: the unknown woodlander” was published by Permaculture Magazine 9 years ago in 2007 (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=1984 and also my book Around the World in 80 […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables / Regenerative culture
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Findhorn’s Edible Woodland Garden
I arrived at Findhorn by bike – http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=8060 – from Dyke on 14th September 2016, where I had been staying at Teeny Weeny Farm! Ariane Burgess had attended my talk […]
Seed
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Packing and sorting seed
A few pictures of seed I cleaned and packed for trading, offering to Norwegian Seed Savers and using in the kitchen today! 131116: Added a few more that […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Climate Festival garden tours!
Lovely bunch of people on the two tours of my garden today! Forgot to take any pictures during the first tour, so just a couple from the second […]
Climbers / Fruit
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Olive climbing Hablitzia
A 1m pot grown olive that is now in full flower together with a clambering Hablitzia also in flower… Post Views: 116
Perennial vegetables / Pot plants
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Plant backlog…
The backlog of plants waiting for their space in the garden is getting longer by the minute…where will it all end? …and yes, that’s my oldest Hablitzia on […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Pakora hasn’t met this selection of veggies before!
I gave myself a little treat this week and made Indian pakora! Pakora are basically fried vegetable fritters, often sold as a starter in Indian restaurants. The vegetables […]
Book / Interview / Perennial vegetables
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An interview at Holma Forest Garden in Sweden
An interview with yours truly at Holma Forest Garden in Southern Sweden during my visit in early May. Filmed and produced by Jim Nilsson who did an excellent […]