I’ve been growing Hablitzia tamnoides, affectionately known as Habbies, for over 20 years and this is the first registered mortality. On a shallow bed under a birch tree, […]
Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Forced March Perennial Greens
In order to lengthen the season for harvesting of perennial vegetables, I dig up roots of a selection in the autumn and plant them in garden soil in […]
Spice
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Golpar ready to use
Cleaned this year’s golpar harvest, my favourite spice…used in a range of dishes, see here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=golpar Real golpar is the ground seed of Heracleum persicum (Tromsøpalme), an important […]
Beans / Potato / Spice
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Broad beans, falafels, new potatoes and golpar
Today I harvested the year’s first broad beans at the Væres Venner Community Garden where KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) are developing a garden: I also harvested the first […]
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 […]
Book / Foraging
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Holmboe’s Gratis mat av ville planter
To buy, see the bottom of this page (for å kjøpe, se nederst på denne siden). Jens Holmboe’s book “Gratis mat av ville planter” (Free food from wild […]