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 […]
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 […]
Salad
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Salad wall
There’s now even salad ingredients on the walls of my living room ;) I bought this from Terje Visnes‘ photo exhibition at RAMM in Trondheim (http://www.trondheimramm.no); see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=7989 […]
Sweetener
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100% self-sufficient in sugar at 63.5N!
I gave up sugar poison completely over 10 years ago, apart from the once a year suck on my living room sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) :) This is a […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Wild Edibles
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Around the world with Erythroniums
As an introduction to two soon to be published blog posts concerning visits to two nature reserves in Japan during the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum) in […]
Children's games
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Interconnected
Back in the early 1990s I bought a book by leading Norwegian ethnobotanist Ove Arbo Høeg (and Helga Hjort) “Barkebåt og kongleku”, all about games children played with […]
Fruit
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A nice pair of Boothby’s Blonde Cucumber
When I had a greenhouse, I used to grow an heirloom cucumber called Boothby’s Blonde…and one year, this “pair” appeared :) See what they normally look like here: […]
Drying / Onions
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Persian shallot confusion!
I’ve also harvested onions of Allium stipitatum “Album”, one of the so-called Ornamental onions…but for those in the know also a fantastic Edimental onion. I bought this one […]
Root crops
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Harvesting thistle root!
Forgot to harvest my tuberous thistles, Cirsium tuberosum…managed to find a couple now… See also an older blog about them here http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=2461 Post Views: 334
Biannuals / Root crops
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Late or early?
Sowing carrots at Xmas…late or early? They won’t germinate until April here, good to get ahead of the spring jobs! HAPPY CARROT-TIDE (Carrotmas?) everyone and (in Norwegian) GOD […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Wild Japanese Katakuri #1
My trip to Japan in early spring 2016 was perfectly timed to witness one of the wonders of the Japanese spring, the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum; Japanese: […]
Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Katakuri at Mt. Iimoriyama
This post documents my visit with Aiah Noack of Naturplanteskolen in Denmark to the historical town of Asuke in Aichi Prefecture near to Toyota, where we’d spent the […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables / Wild Edibles
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More seed for stratifying
An early Xmas present from Alexander Naumenko! Thanks! Several new very interesting Alliums, Taraxacum lilacinum (lilac flowered dandelion…hope they will germinate!), Hyssopus tianschanicus, Tragopogon capitatus, Angelica brevicaulis and […]
Brassica
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Diversity of Brassicas in Munich
The best living displays of the diversity of Brassicas I’ve seen was in the Munich Botanical Garden in Germany in November 2015, including an apparently perennial kale I hadn’t […]
Cleaning seed / grain / Seed
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Cleaning quinoa seed
I’ve found the easiest way to clean quinoa and seed of other Chenopods is using water…the seed sinks and the chaff floats…after separating, the seed is dried… […]
Fjord views / Malvik / Moon
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Narrow moon beam
Very narrow moon beam tonight! Post Views: 147
Food / Root crops
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Skirret-chufa stir-fry
Tonight’s dinner, skirret-chufa stir-fry. Post Views: 163
Fruit
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Celebrating chili diversity at Chelsea
Mainly for my friend the Extreme Chili Guy, Chris Fowler, who reportedly maintains a collection of over 1,000 chilis in South Wales, here’s an album of pictures from […]
Salad / stratifying seed
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Winter sowing
I’ve sowed 104 new perennial edibles , mostly Alliums… They will spend the rest of the winter outside under my cold frame and hopefully germinate in the spring! […]
Cellar vegetables / Food
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Home grown quinoa patties
A long way from home, I composed these Malvik grown quinoa patties tonight and they were pretty damned good! I boiled the quinoa, mixed with fried leek, garlic, chili, […]
Drying / Food / Fruit
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First load of wood dried apples
My first (of many) loads of apples drying over the wood stove! I’m 100% self-sufficient in fruit and never buy bananas, oranges etc. and don’t use a freezer. […]
Fjord views / Moon
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Bright night lights
Some pictures from the house of the bright moon reflections this evening 14th December… Post Views: 142
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions
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A bunch of nodding edimental onions
Two pictures from the end of June 2014 of possibly my favourite onion, the nodding onion (Allium cernuum) from North America in some of its myriad of forms…beautiful […]
Book / Edimentals
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Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004
The first time my garden was featured in a book was in former Norwegian TV gardener and gardener for the King, Tor Smaaland’s 2004 book “Din drømmehage”. The […]