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Article, Heirlooms

Artikler om grønnsaksarven fra Hagetidend

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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 dette innlegget hvor alle artiklene kan igjen bli lastet ned! Artikelene blir også etter hvert lagt ut hos kvann.org (Norwegian Seed Savers/KVANNs webside).

English: In 2011, I wrote a series of one page articles about Norwegian heirloom vegetables in Norsk Hagetidend (the magazine of the Norwegian Horticultural Society) in Norwegian. The complete series can be found below.

  1. Fjellmandel og takløk (Mandel potato and the roof onions of Gudbrandsdal)

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2. Aleksandra hvitløk (Garlic Aleksandra)

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3. Hagemelde “Backlund-Bly” fra USA (Garden orach Backlund-Bly from Seed Savers Exchange i USA)

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4. Stjernemelde (Caucasian spinach, Hablitzia tamnoides)

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5. Vossakvann (Voss Angelica)

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6. Seiersløk fra Lofoten (Victory onion, Allium victorialis from Lofoten)

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7. Luftløk fra  Udøy  (Walking onion, Allium x proliferum from the island Udøy and Catawissa onion)

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8. Jordskokk fra Ontario (Jerusalem artichoke from Ontario that travelled the world)

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9. Maries høje ært (Marie’s pea…from Norway to Denmark and back)

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10. Tante Cis tomat (Tante Cis or Ansofs Gule tomat)

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Climbers, Edimentals, Perennial vegetables

Variegated Hablitzia on Nesodden

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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 stems had variegated leaves…I’m not sure if this is the same plant as the stems with normal leaves…will try to check on my next visit!

Climbers, Food, Perennial vegetables, Salad

Happy Habby Pizza

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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 flours including: coarse rye, emmer, barley, coarse spelt, svedjerug and a few barley and svedjerug grains added.
It was accompanied by a blanched salad – sea kale, dandelion “Vert de Montmagny Ameliore” and Allium tuberosum!
Sooooo tasty….

The Hablitzia once again impresses with its incredible productivity and early growth in one of the driest, shadiest places in the garden!

Perennial vegetable shoots, Perennial vegetables

permakulturplanter.no visit!

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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?!!). Great names and, apart from trying to fill in a hole I’d just dug, lovely kids!

Thanks for the Asimina (pawpaw) plants :)

Community Garden

Verdenshage and Væres Venner

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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 garden was looking (starting this year east of Ranheim at Være) . The snow had gone! At the entrance to the garden (Væres Venner) we will plant our World Edible Garden (Verdenshage) – large circular bed with the centre representing the north pole and mainly edible perennials distributed according to where they grow or are used in the Northern Hemisphere (see the first video below, where you can see an inner circle where we planted temporarily some 60 different plants in the autumn…and some are still ALIVE)!!
We have also purchased a couple of hardy walnuts and various hazel cultivars which will be planted along with many other fruit and berry bushes! I’m helping to design and develop the garden with a great group of enthusiasts and I hope that it will be formally adopted as one of KVANNs Vegetable Sanctuaries (KVANN=Norwegian Seed Savers)

Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasus!) has survived!

Moon garden?

Perennial vegetables

Hardy Habby

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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 3 months and exposed to the swings in temperature as not buried in the insulating soil. Now waterlogged as the temperature has increased, frozen still lower down. I’m impressed that it has still managed to sprout.

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