Despite the record warm May here at 63.4N with temperatures up to 30C and drought like conditions (forest fire warnings on the news every day), my now 23 […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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The 2021 Selfies with a 20-year old Udo
This year’s udo (Aralia cordata) selfie pictures, probably the highest ever with a flowering spike way above my head. I harvested about 1/3 of the shoots in the […]
Blanching / Cellar vegetables / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Japanese Sansai in March
Almost exactly 5 years ago this week I was on a study tour to Japan to look at Sansai production. I’m doing a webinar talk about the trip […]
Harvest / Winter vegetables
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Harvesting winter vegetables before the freeze
I’ve been self-sufficient in fresh vegetables year round and have blogged and lectured about how I can do this even in winter without a greenhouse, without a freezer […]
Ferns / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Green Ostrich Pasta
I noticed yesterday that the ostrich ferns (strutseving) in the forest garden had put on a spurt despite the cold weather and were almost past the harvesting stage. […]
walks
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KVANN’s Annual Meeting Weekend: Day 4; Ostrich Fern hike along the Homla
On the 4th day of the Norwegian Seed Savers weekend (6th May 2019), the traditional spring walk along the Homla river and canyon was on the programme with […]
Onions
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Status of the Granvin victory onion location
In June 2009, I was shown the only naturalised stand of victory onion (Allium victorialis) in south western Norway (away from Lofoten Islands – Vestvågøy – and Bodø […]
Garden tour
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Dutch visitors
Nice visit on Saturday from Saskia Wanders from Århus Andelsgård (Skien) and 3 Dutch friends, on the way to Lofoten! (with ostrich fern and Zanthoxylum piperitum (Japanese pepper). […]
Forest Gardening
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Food forest at Landås in Bergen
Landås matskog (food forest) is situated under Mount Ulriken in Bergen, Norway. The area was until just a few years ago spruce forest, but when it was felled, […]
Food / Foraging / Perennial vegetables
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Belated happy birthday to me
The first veggie food I ate was macaroni cheese and chips at Edwin Jones (now Debenhams) in Southampton, a treat when we Mum took us shopping back in […]
Foraging / walks
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Homla walk May 2018
Pictures from this week’s 5 hour (botanist pace) walk along the spectacular Homla canyon, the start about 14 km from home! Post Views: 116
Article
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2002 Norwegian Article on Ostrich Fern
An article in Norwegian about my first experiences with ostrich fern (strutseving). From the magazine of the Norwegian Useful Plants Society, Våre Nyttevekster (Our Useful Plants). Link to […]
walks
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Edimentals in Stanley Park, Vancouver
I took the ferry across from Vancouver Island to the city of Vancouver. I’ve already posted a lot of pictures of the birds of fabulous Stanley Park, a […]
Talks
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Perennial vegetables and edimentals for cities
This week I gave a couple of talks for the first time on the subject of “Perennials: Attractive and climate friendly city vegetables” ….covering everywhere from roof gardens […]
Ferns
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30 point ostrich!
On the way up the mountain at Alvastien Telste I found a particularly fertile ostrich fern with 30 fertile fronds! This is the edible wild plant equivalent of […]
Forest Gardening / Fruit / Nut trees / walks / Wild Edibles
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Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling
Documentation of yet another amazing day during last week’s Perennialen III in Hardanger!! Pictures taken on a fantastic 6-7 hour round trip from Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege […]
walks
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Homla walk 2nd June 2017
Another magical walk along the Homla Canyon in Malvik in the company of wwoofer of the week :) First, a parade of Ostrich Ferns along the bank of […]
walks
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Homla ostrich fern tour; 17th May 2017
Yet another wondrous walk along the Homla canyon in Malvik , this time with Berit Børte, Marit By and Ane Mari Aakernes Post Views: 139
Food
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OstrichDandyHeartOmelette
Thanks to my visitors Berit Børte and Ane Mari Aakernes for this “lovely” omelette this evening….dandelion flower buds and fiddleheads, ramsons, chili and Heracleum persicum spice (golpar) in […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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In the forest garden on 16th May 2017
Just a few pictures of udo, ostrich fern, devil’s walking stick, giant bellflower today in the forest garden.. Post Views: 129
Book / Edimentals
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Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004
The first time my garden was featured in a book was in former Norwegian TV gardener and gardener for the King, Tor Smaaland’s 2004 book “Din drømmehage”. The […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Climate Festival garden tours!
Lovely bunch of people on the two tours of my garden today! Forgot to take any pictures during the first tour, so just a couple from the second […]
walks / wild flowers
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Alys’ Pool
Almost exactly 6 years ago (is it really that long ago?) I was delighted to have a visit from BBC gardening presenter and Guardian writer Alys Fowler. After […]