When giving talks I like to renew myself and talk about something different each time. For my talk in Copenhagen at the Future Heirloom event last weekend I […]
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 […]
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
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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 […]
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Last or First?
A few days ago I harvested my yacon (Polymnia edulis). My season outside is a bit too short to get good yields outside, so I grow in large […]
Tubers
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Yacon and Madeira Vine flowering outside
To my surprise, I noticed today that both yacon (Polymnia sonchifolia) and Madeira Vine (Anredera cordifolia) have managed to flower outside in the garden before I bring them […]
Root crops
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Yacon and sunchoke harvest
This week, I harvested both yacon (grown in large pots and brought inside before the first frosts to grow on) and its close relative Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke), one […]
Edimentals / Tubers
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Jack-on
My friend Jack-on (Polymnia edulis) enjoys a bit of company and you can see he’s happy! Post Views: 76
Cellar vegetables / Food
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Tonight’s barlotto
Tonight’s mix of veg for a barlotto (Norw: byggotto) in which you can put what you want. Post Views: 108
Root crops / Tubers
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..and end of the year Yacon harvest
Yacon (Polymnia edulis/Smallanthus sonchifolius) also gives higher yields when grown on inside until the end of the year in a large pot; however, it is much less day […]
Fjord views / Moon
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Partly obscured by clouds
The moon just peeping over the top of the mountain Forbordsfjellet this evening, but partly obscured by clouds ..and my Yacon […]
Root crops / Tubers
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My first Yacon flower after 10 years of trying!
I also finally flowered a yacon here! I’ve been growing Yacon now for 10 years, my first harvest here was on 28th October 2006 and I was pleased […]
Tubers
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Yacon at 63.5N
This is the closest I’ve got Yacon to flowering here, grown in a large container…it might just make it as warmer nights and sunny days are forecast for […]