1st June 2025: The view is beautified this week by the amazing floriferousness of my two Aroma apple trees. Every year I say I’ve never seen so many […]
Salad
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The year’s first salad photo shoot!
The year’s first multispecies salad made earlier this week on 12th April! The list of plants is below the pictures. The ingredients:Rumex patientia (patience dock / hagesyre)Rumex acetosa […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Magazine article
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Edimentals and Perennial Veg in the RHS The Garden magazine
I have some great news to share! My word edimentals, “invented” some 17 years ago to describe those amazing plants that are both edible and ornamental – has […]
Walk and talk
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Edimentals at Kew Gardens; April 2024
An edibles walk and talk to myself at Kew Gardens on 12th April 2024!Pictures of spotted edimentals and other edibles below (names with the pictures): Post Views: 147
Talks / Walk and talk
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Video of A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens
My zoom talk “A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens” in Melbourne, Australia was recorded and is now available https://youtu.be/rHX3q3Dng4kI based the talk on Edimentals that can be […]
Garden tour
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Plant list for The World Garden
I’ve shared my list of plants that I’ve planted in Trondheim’s World Garden to a few people who’ve asked and now it’s available to anyone who is curious […]
Salad
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Mid-January Salad
In connection with Cathrine Kramer’s (Centre for Genomic Gastronomy) third visit to Malvik from her base in Amsterdam to make an around the year artistic film of The […]
Berries
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North American Forest Garden
On the Eastern boundary at the Væres Venner community garden in Trondheim, I wanted to develop a small forest garden devoted to edible plants of the first peoples […]
Walk and talk
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EDIMENTALS VISITS RHS WISLEY
On a short visit to England to visit my mum, I visited RHS Wisley yesterday to do a 2 hour walk and talk for the Edibles Team (and […]
Edible flowers / Edientomental / Perennial vegetables
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Toad lilies: great edientomentals
Toad lilies (Tricyrtis sp.) are great edientomentals from the Far East; i.e. both food for us to eat (the edi bit), eye food (the mental bit ;) […]
Salad
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Pot luck salad
On Sunday 26th May we organized a potluck party in Væres Venners Community Garden in Trondheim for the first time! It was a fantastically successful event in glorious […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Snow onion salad
After yesterday’s video post about the snow onion (Allium humile) I had to make a snow onion lunchtime salad, so here it is; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mOcQ4aUQVIIngredients below the pictures. […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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The Full Gap
I used to call it the Hungry Gap (Vårknipen), but transitioning to a large proportion of perennials this is the time I now call the Full Gap! The […]
Garden tour
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Edibles at RHS Wisley
Since my last visit to RHS Wisley 5 years ago there have been large changes, notably the RHS Hilltop building and adjacent World Food Garden. Last Thursday I […]
Food / Pulses
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Runner Bean Falafels
After many years of trying, I managed to get a decent crop of dried runner beans / løpebønner* (Phaseolus coccineus). My own garden is a bit too cold […]
Dandelions / Seed
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Freedom for Palestine
The year’s first seed is as usual dandelion (løvetann), but this one is extra early as it was one of those forced indoors for the leaves.The dandelion symbolises […]
Talks
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Wild Hive Talk at Home in Chandlers Ford: Resonating with Hampshire!
Thank you once again to all the amazing Wild Hive Collective team for organizing my talk in Chandlers Ford, my home town, on 19th November 2023. It attracted […]
Seed
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2022-2023
WELCOME TO MY NEW SEED TRADE LIST FOR WINTER 2022-23, THIS YEAR WITH 338 CHOICES20, 21, 22 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Sochan tops Mediterranean style
Thanks to Alan Bergo (@foragerchef) for reminding me to try sochan tops. This is Rudbeckia laciniata (cut-leafed coneflower) which in the double form is one of the most […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Persian Shallot harvest
One of my favourite perennial onions are persian shallots, Allium stipitatum and I’ve blogged about them several times in the past: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=persian+shallotThis is one of the earliest onions to […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Extreme 66 ingredient November Salad
The Extreme Salad Man has been quiet recently. He was inspired to make this 5th November salad by a 10 year old Facebook memory of a salad he […]
Fruit
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Nanking cherry harvest
Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa) is a species native to northern and western China, Tibet, Korea and Mongolia. My two plants are seed propagated about 20 years ago, […]
Bees / Pollinators
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No shortage of bumblebees
Several species of bumblebee were queuing up for a turn on the Allium pskemense x cepa hybrid in the garden this afternoon: Post Views: 132
Talks
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Edimentals Goes Mainstream
On the 12th June, I gave my first webinar at a mainstream gardening conference in the US, the Southeastern Plant Symposium, hosted by the JC Raulston Arboretum and […]