After many years of trying, I managed to get a decent crop of dried runner beans / løpebønner* (Phaseolus coccineus). My own garden is a bit too cold […]
Pulses
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Northern Runner Bean Grex
Last winter I sourced 16 of the earliest varieties of runner beans / løpebønner (Phaseolus coccineus), a bean that is marginal in maturing (for seed) in my area. […]
Breeding
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Local runner bean landrace
I’ve started work on a local landrace of runner beans / blomsterbønner (Phaseolus coccineus). I sowed yesterday 15 varieties that are the earliest varieties I could find from […]
Food / Root crops
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Sweet cicely / chicory root scrambled egg
I had been asked if I had photos of the roots of chicory (sikkori) and sweet cicely (Spansk kjørvel) for a talk about wild edible roots. I therefore […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Food / Fungi / Legumes
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Runner Bean harvest
As I wrote earlier, it looks like we may have a glut of runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus) this year, the first time for many years. Runner beans are […]
Beans / Edimentals
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Edimental Runner Beans
My Dad (95) has always grown Runner Beans, so I have them in my blood. Moving to Norway, I was surprised to find that they were mostly grown […]
Beans / Berries / Climate
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Towards a record early harvest
This summer we’ve experienced a big swing in temperatures from one month to the next…from a record cold May to a record warm June followed by most of […]
Beans / Food
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Runner bean pizza
Runner beans (blomsterbønner) are always ripening at the end of september to early october here before the frost stops them. They made a delicious whole grain rye/barley/oat sourdough […]
Drying / Legumes
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Pea and broad bean diversity
I always grow many different types of peas and broad beans (favas) (erter og bondebønner). Peas (Pisum sativum) rarely if ever cross so I grow them very close […]
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 […]
Malvik / Onions
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20 Runner Beans is better than nothing!
This is about the total yield of my runner beans this cool summer, but the first garlic (Alexandra) looks promising! Post Views: 93
Fruit / Perennials / Uncategorized
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Balcony view
Looking down from the bedroom balcony on to a bed I know as “SSHB” (south side house bed, of course!). Here we see Akebia quinata attempting it’s world […]