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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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: 128
Butterflies and moths / Seed sAVING
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Parsnip moth
If you grow parsnip (pastinakk) for seed, you may have come across the parsnip moth or parsnip webworm (Depressaria radiata) as it can make an impact on seed […]
Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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19th March Veggies
Continuing my series of veggies harvested from the garden. this time used in a baccalao with parsnip (pastinakk), potato (potet), bulb onions .(kepaløk), Jerusalem artichokes (jordskokk), (bought) organic […]
Root crops
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Parsnip men!
When my kids were young I made up a now legendary (in our family at least) story that I told them at bedtime about the Potato Men….potatoes that […]
Root crops
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My biggest parsnip?
Nothing compared to the monsters that can be grown in the UK, but this is just about the largest parsnip (pastinakk) I’ve harvested here. This is both due […]
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Diagonally planted garlic and parsnip
Planted my garlic and sowed parsnip today on my 33 year old raised beds. No wooden edges, just raised using the soil where the paths are and adding […]
garlic topsets / Root crops
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Planting Garlic
I finally got the garlic planted today after a week of rain and temperatures up to +10C had melted most of the frost in the soil! Here are […]
Perennial vegetables
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Harvesting before the frost penetrates too deep
The last 3 days, I’ve been harvesting as quickly as I can as it’s very cold for the time of year (max. about -6C today) and the earth […]