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 […]
Onions / Perennials
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Gift onions…
There’s no better gift than a few onions: Allium cernuum / Nodding onion / Chicago Onion / Prærieløk Post Views: 146
Fibre plant / Forest Gardening / Leafy greens / Perennials
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Himalayan Nettle
Girardinia diversifolia (Himalayan Nettle; Allo) is a potentially useful plant for the forest garden. The young leaves, inflorescenses and seeds (roasted) are eaten). It’s a large clump-formimg perennial […]
Fungi
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Ink caps / Blekksopp coming into season
Passed these on my bike ride to work today…will stop off to pick them for dinner on the way home…. Post Views: 119
Berries
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Drying Worcesterberries and Saskatoons
There’s been an almost complete failure of apples and plums this year (this has never happened before in my 35 years here). I can’t possibly start buying fruit […]
Legumes / Root crops
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Earthnut Pea / Lathyrus tuberosus
This is a new variety of Earthnut pea (Lathyrus tuberosus) which germinated from Danish seed I was given by NO Crossland of Danish Seed Savers (frøsamlerne). I seem […]
Dandelions / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennials / Tempura / Tubers
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Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her […]
Berries / Forest Gardening
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Watermelon berry
Streptopus amplexifolius has been used for its spring shoots that supposedly taste of cucumber and the ripe berries that give the plant one of its names, watermelon berry….A […]
Spice
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Homegrown Golpar
Saving seed for my own homegrown Golpar, a great spice made from the seed of Heracleum species (Hogweeds/bjørnekjeks) including Giant Hogweed and Tromsøpalm. Post Views: 142
Berries
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Black raspberry
Black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) perfectly complements my red raspberries here as the one finishes as the other begins! I had my first blacks today (14th September 2015), seed […]
Onions
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New Alliums
Some new Alliums in flower for the first time… The first 4 are a nice form of Allium wallichii, then an Allium flavum with large inflorescences and finally […]
GMO
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Alan Kapuler on GMOs
https://youtu.be/UIxGC5J1ofM Wonderful, must see for anyone interested in GMOs and plant breeding! What an amazing, intelligent and warm human being Kapuler is… I was so fortunate to spend […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Talks
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Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015
Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn (Summerhouse and Garden magazine) in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015….. During the talk it was decided that edimentals should be known […]