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 […]
Food / Tubers
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Rhizo-bacalhau
We occasionally eat wild fish and bacalhau is a favourite made from Norwegian dried cod that can be found in supermarkets here. More or less anything goes in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 126
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: 111
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 […]
Oca / Root crops / Tubers
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Oca and Ulluco safely inside!
With an even heavier frost threatened, I moved all my Ocas and Ullucos inside….but, until I clear space (seeds drying everywhere) they are blocking the entrance to my […]
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: 90