Wonderful rain on the balcony (aka zone 0.5) with oca (Oxalis tuberosa), 9 varieties of lettuce (salat), tomato “42 days” , dill, coriander, toothache pant (Spilanthes), shungiku / […]
Seed sAVING / Talks
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Seed saving talk weekend
Thanks to KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) colleague Andrew McMillion for coming up to Trondheim to give his seed saving course for local KVANN and Væres Venner Community Garden […]
Food / Fungi / Perennial vegetables
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Wild Enoki, Oca and Hablitzia scrambled eggs
Wild Enoki, Oca, Hablitzia, wild buckwheat sprouts, Allium nutans with dandelion, garlic chilis mixed with scrambled eggs for a delicious home grown and foraged lunch!Enoki is one of […]
Climbers / Food / Onions / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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Habby Chicago Eggs
I was showing a journalist around the winter edible garden and cellar this morning and dug up some nodding (Chicago) onions (Allium cernuum) and picked a few Hablitzia […]
Food / Root crops
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Xmas diversity from the rhizosphere
Presenting this year’s 30 rhizosphantastic Xmas vegetables, all roasted in the oven, served as every year in the last 40 with nut roast, bedecked with the following seeds […]
Root crops
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Oca harvest 2022
Xmas isn’t Xmas without Oca and a hoard of other tubers, served with the traditional nut roast. Pre-xmas preparations includes the annual oca harvest. Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) is […]
Food / Root crops
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Xmas day Rhizofantastigora dinner 2021
Xmas dinner in Malvik has been nut roast and roasted roots every year since 1984! This year there were 27 different roots: parsnip, 15 different varieties of potato, […]
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 […]
Food
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Winter stir-fry
People are always asking me for recipes. I rarely follow recipes as my ingredients vary so much and I just use what I have available. However, I do […]
Dandelions / Oxalis tuberosa / Root crops / Tubers
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Tubers and roots; December 2020
A gallery of pictures of tubers and roots which were harvested in December when I had a blog-free month! Post Views: 125
Perennial vegetable shoots / Salad / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad
The Less than Extreme Salad Man has been in action with the year’s multi-species salad! A few hours before the polar low storm hit and snow covered the […]
Tubers
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Happy Edimentalmas
Merry St.Stephen’s Day (aka Edimentalmas!) to all edimentalists :) This year’s Xmas dinner had the following tubers: Lathyrus tuberosus, Dioscorea polystachya (tuber and tubercules aka mukago), Madeira vine […]
Sprouts / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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January vegetables from cellar and window sills
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Tubers / Uncategorized
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Last harvest of 2017 and the most colourful!
I harvested Ulluco and Oca tubers which I grow on indoors from the first frost to the end of the year!This is probably the last time I grow […]
Tubers / Uncategorized
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Happy New Edimental Year
Wishing all my friends, family and all the amazing folk I’ve met live and online this year a very happy green year in which things WILL begin to […]
Root crops
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Oca on the move!
My oca (Oxalis tuberosa) plants (grown in large pots) have now been moved inside to be finished off for Xmas. A couple were still in flower!! It should […]
Edible flowers / Tubers
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Oca still in full flower
Two or three of my oca (Oxalis tuberosa) cultivars were still in flower this week! Post Views: 109
Climbers / Tubers
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Andes in Malvik 2008
In 2008 I still had a greenhouse. After it was destroyed in the 26th December 2011 I decided not to rebuild it and to only grow hardy vegetables. […]
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 […]
Food / Perennials / Root crops / Tubers
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Soba stir-fried cellar vegetables
Last night’s chinese stir-fried vegetables, from cellar and store, served with soba! Now using more tubers than greens… Achira carrot chicory Chili GarlicOca onionperennial kale turnip Ulluco Jerusalem artichoke and winter chantarelle Post Views: 104
Root crops / Tubers
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Forcing Andean root crops for winter greens
I was potting up ocas and ullucos outside this afternoon (to force for winter greens) and there was a sudden hail storm . The pots are brought inside […]
Root crops / Tubers
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End of the year Andes in Malvik tuber harvest
As the psychedelic (colour not effect) Andean tubers Oca (Oxalis tuberosa), Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus) and Achira (Canna edulis) benefit from a longer season than I can give them […]
Winter shoots
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Indoor edible shoots: my living room is alive!!
A collection of pictures of greens now available in my house (15th February 2016), mainly shoots of perennial vegetables! Post Views: 89
Dandelions / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennials / Tempura / Tubers
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Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her […]