I enjoyed myself last Tuesday evening talking about onions with Marianne Meløy and Amund Storløkken Åse, surrounded by some amazing art at Atelier Ilsvika, in an eclectic acoustic […]
Plant offer
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Høsttilbud til KVANN medlemmer; Allium og Flerårige grønnsaker
TILBUDET ER AVSLUTTET!Tradisjon tro er det tilbud på flerårige løkplanter fra Løkhagen Chicago i Ringve Botaniske Hagen som sendes i posten over hele landet tidlig i oktober (standard […]
Arctic Gardening / Publication
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GARDEN in the Arctic Encyclopaedia
My latest book has been published on Monday (with 199 co-authors 😉 ). This is the 300 page Arctic Encyclopaedia and the good news is that it can […]
Seed / Seed Saving / Self Sufficiency
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025
Added a few on 8th February 2024 (search for NEW)Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2024-2522, 23, 24 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning […]
Annuals / Biennial / Salad
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World Garden November Salad
14th November 2024: Although the World Garden I’ve created at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim is mostly perennials, I fill up gaps with some annuals and […]
Onions
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Allium dispersal
Allium dispersal?Well, this week was the week when vegetatively propagated onions from the Allium Garden Chicago in Trondheim were dispersed to members of the Norwegian Seed Savers organisation […]
Pulses
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50 Garden Pea Varieties
Every year I grow 15-20 different garden pea (Lathyrus oleraceus / Pisum sativum) varieties and they’ve now all been dried, I’ve taken seed of those I want to […]
Study visit
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Besøk fra (visit from) Arche Noah
Engelsk tekst nederstI løpet av 17.-19. juli var jeg glad for å kunne returnere gjestfriheten gitt av KVANNs søsterorganisasjon Arche Noah (Austrian Seed Savers) under mine 2 turer […]
Salad / Stand
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RINGVE OPEN DAY 2024
There were some 1,500 people who came along to Sunday’s Open Day at the Ringve Botanical Garden and as usual KVANN Trøndelag (Norwegian Seed Savers; kvann.no) had a […]
Dandelions / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelions in pink, white and yellow
16th May 2024: Dandelions in white, pink and (self-sowed) yellow in the Asian part of the World Garden at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim. I planted […]
Seed sAVING
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2023-2024
Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2023-2421, 22, 23 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as I don’t have many plants of […]
Legumes
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Pea harvest 2023
The garden pea / ert (now Lathyrus oleraceus, was Pisum sativum) is an important source of vegetable protein and can be grown over most of Norway with many […]
Garden tour / Talks / Walk and talk
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Organic week in Trøndelag / Økouka i Trøndelag
Last week was National Organic Week (Økouka), a busy week for me as I had two garden tours in my Edible Garden in Malvik (the rain stopped both […]
Uncategorized
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Ringve’s 50th Biodiversity Celebrations
Fantastic day at Ringve Botaniske Hagen’s 50th anniversary garden party for the city. The theme for the day was Biodiversity and Sustainability! KVANN had a stand with a […]
Onions
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Grand opening of the Onion Garden
The long delayed (by COVID) opening of the Onion Garden Chicago took place at the Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim on Friday. Here we grow over 400 different […]
Seed sAVING
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Seed sorting for KVANN members
This weekend was my big annual seed pack for members of Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN, kvann.no). I’m offering some 360 varieties this year and I received orders from […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Root crops / Salad
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“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad
I was going to post an album of pictures showing off all the late flowers in the garden this record-breaking mild autumn still without any frost, but as […]
Onions
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Twisted-leaf garlic for lunch
I’d sent a few bulbs of twisted-leaf garlic (Allium obliquum) to members of Norwegian Seed Savers’ (KVANN) guild for Alliums and had a few left overover, so I […]
Perennial vegetables / Propagation
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Myoga shoots and propagation
I wrote about harvesting and eating myoga (Japanese ginger / Zingiber mioga) here in Malvik for the first time in 2020 here: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=26293 It was grown in a […]
Seed / Seed sAVING
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2021-2022
WELCOME TO MY NEW SEED TRADE LIST FOR WINTER 2021-22, THIS YEAR WITH 323 VARIETIES19, 20, 21 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as […]
Birds / Pollinators
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Burdock for goldfinches
I’ve written a series of articles in 3 parts “Fuglevennlige planter i hagen” (Bird friendly plants in the garden) for the magazine of our national bird society (NOF, […]
Edientomental / Root crops
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Root Chicory Trials 2021 at Være
One of the experiments this year in the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) trial gardens at Væres Venner in Trondheim has been a comparison of different root chicories. These […]
Root crops / Tubers
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A real Oca yield outside at 63.4N
Two days ago, the latest first frost date was registered in Trondheim for 130 years! This has allowed my oca (Oxalis tuberosa), one of the Lost Crops of […]
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, […]
Community Garden
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KVANN’s World Garden
At the Væres Venner community garden on the outskirts of Trondheim at Ranheim in an area we hope will remain a green belt, I have been working to […]