Pictures from a great day last Sunday in the company of a great group of permaculture interested folks from Oikos Nord Trøndelag (Oikos = Organic Norway)
We started in my garden in Malvik at 10:30, then travelled north to Johannes Moen’s place just south of Steinkjer, stopping on the way to collect some fertility and for a swim in Leksdalsvatnet! I got home by train at 11:30 pm!
The day started with a tour around my garden
We stopped in Stiklestad on a farm which had been run organically since about 1990 to pick up horse muck for the perennial garden we were to create in the evening!
Not a plant I see often in this area, Stachys palustris was growing on the farm…it has edible tubers..I also found it growing at Hurdal Ecovillage last week and will dig some next time I visit…
On the way north, we stopped off for a swim at the north end of Leksdalsvatnet, one of the best lakes for birds in our area, including little gull (dvergmåke) and great crested grebe (toppdykker/ https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toppdykker), which I spotted from the car!
The swimming area…
I found another rare plant in this area, Alisma plantago-aquatica (vassgro / greater water plantain), when I was out swimming :) I’ve never been convinced to try eating it. This is the entry in Cornucopia II: “The bulb-like bases are eaten after being dried to rid them of their acrid properties”. According to pfaf.org, “the seed is said to promote sterility. By contrast it is also said to promote conception ” ;)
The Alisma locality was on the other side of the water
…and another rare plant, Thalictrum flavum I think, right next to where we sat
…and another rare plant, Thalictrum flavum I think, right next to where we sat
The last stop was at Johannes Moen’s strange house just south of Steinkjer..built by his dad in concrete, it had been designed to have glass sides in which plants could be grown, but it was sadly never completed…Johannes and his brother are living here now and making improvements
Johannes Moen tells us about the house
The original family home
They have been insulating the walls
Scything demonstration on the area we were to convert to a new permaveggie garden!
Participants learning the age old technique of bastard digging which I taught them (I learned this technique back in the 80s from one of John Seymour’s books and dug my own garden by hand in this way! It is surprisingly quick, this area only taking two people about an hour or so…after which we could plant straight away…with this technique, the top spit of soil ends up two spits down an upside down!
Veggie soup and blueberry pie for dinner by a bonfire of birch and “høymole/Northern Dock (Rumex longifolius)” which was also being burned at Hurdal last week ;)
Planting up the bed with plants we’d brought with us from Malvik…
The plants include Hablitizia, Malva moschata, Caraway (Karve), various onions including Allium cernuum, A. scorodoprasum, A.fistulosum, A. schoenoprasum “Major”, Cryptotaenia canadensis, Viola canadensis, Ligularia sachalinensis (by mistake, I thought it was L. fischeri) etc.
Tour to the tower on top of the house!
Views over the surrounding agricultural land
…but forest surrounds one side of the property
I took the train back home from Sparbu
…and a beautiful journey it is along the side of Trondheimsfjord!
Salicornia (marsh samphire/salturt) grow on the mudflats in this picture
Her er min bilde-dokumentasjon av plantene i Prestegårdshagen i Hurdal funnet under to besøk i juli 2017 før evt restaurering / nyplanting kommer i gang!
Se også bildene av nøttekråkene, cembrafuru (det er 4 trær i hagen!) og pinjenøtter her: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=12512
Nøttekråkene også spiser og hamstrer hasselnøtter, som var plantet (levende lysthus) og forvillet!
An album of pictures from registering plants in the garden of the Hurdal rectory.
Google Earth bilde av hagen
Aquilegia vulgaris, akeleie
Digitalis purpurea, revebjelle
Ukjent rose
parthenocissus quinquefolia
Ugressklokke
Thalictrum simplex?
Rosa rugosa, rynkerose langs kanten i øst
Rosa rugosa, rynkerose
Rosa rugosa, mørk
Rosa rugosa rotskudd
Hybridkonvall? (Polygonatum x hybridum) evt. storkonvall
En hassel lyshus er et element vi bør ta vare på; hassel er et viktig treslag i hagen for fuglene, spettmeis, spettene og nøttekråkene; vi håper også å kunne plante noen storfruktete hassel her; bør fornyes
Hasselnøtter; trær finnes også andre steder i hagen, mest sannsynlig forvillet
Firblad
Hosta “Fortunei Albomarginata” og fagerfredløs (Lysimachia punctata)
Hosta “Fortunei Albomarginata”
Telekia speciosa?
Store osp i nord øst
Ospeskudd overalt i gresset og små trær i bedene
Sibirertebusk, Caragana arborescens…et av de mest lovende flerårige ertevekster for kalde strøk; fiksere nitrogen..
Sibirertebusk erter er spiselig, men det er mye arbeid…
Hosta “Fortunei Albomarginata” rundt damen og fontenen; Hosta er spiselige og gode!
Hosta “Fortunei Albomarginata” rundt damen
Hosta “Fortunei Albomarginata”
Broketbladet kornell med broketbladet skvallerkål under!
Broketbladet skvallerkål
Bringebær
Strutseving er tydeligvis plantet inn i bedet nærmest huset…vokser vilt i skogen sør vest for hagen og langs elven
Krossved?
Storkonvall og dukkehus
En musserong
Spisslønn finnes det en del av….skal være nest beste til lønnesirup etter sukkerlønn
To store bjørk i sør vest
Bjørk
Et av de tre epletrærne i den sørvestlige hjørne; bare noen få frukt
Dette området kan bli aktuelt å plante en skogshage og, bakerst, et område med tradisjonelle norske grønnsaker (Plantearven)
Geitrams har invadert sørkanten
Strutseving og mjødurt i skogen sør vest for hagen! Strutseving-skudd har blitt populær om gourmet og sanket mat de siste årene..
Forvilla rips i skogen
Bjørk
Bjørk
Matskogen kunne kanskje plantes i forgrunn
Store osp: masse ospeskudd er klar i skogsbunnen
Osp
Hagerips
Parkeringsplassen like utenfor sør grensen
Enslig rabarbra
Rosenspiraea er invasiv i sør og sør øst
Philadelphus i den sør-østlige hjørne
Solbær
Syren
Ugressklokke
Acer spp.
Lind i den nord-østlig hjørne har de beste spiselige blad…brukes i blandingssalater
Lind
Bedene foran prestegårdene bør plantes opp med kjente Edimentals for å gi en typisk prestegårdslook
Ormerot er en gammel spiselig prydvekst i Norge (Polygonum bistorta)
Bergenia og Hosta; Bergenia er en vanlig teplante i Russland
Hosta skudd selges i de fleste supermarked i Japan på våren. Disse plantene ble flyttet fra slottshagn i Oslo i år!
Stor bjørk og 4 cembrafuru, som nøttekråkene er veldig glad i; prestegårdshagen er et av bare noen få lokaliteter for nøttekråke i dette området: flere bilder kan sees her: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=12512
I’ve been observing edimentals liked by the bees over the last week…and the winners are the following genera: Allium, Cirsium, Papaver, Trifolium, Dictamnus, Knautia, Campanula, Codonopsis and Aquilegia
I only need to find the time to get out Tor Bollingmo’s (Norwegian) book and attempt to identify the bee species!
Cirsium erisithales, yellow melancholy thistle
Allium
Allium
Allium cernuum
Allium cernuum
Cirsium erisithales, yellow melancholy thistle
Allium hymenorhizum
Cirsium erisithales, yellow melancholy thistle
Opium poppy
White clover
Dictamnus albus
Dictamnus albus
Cirsium eriophorum, woolly thistle
Field scabious, Knautia arvensis (rødknapp)
Field scabious, Knautia arvensis (rødknapp)
Allium cernuum
Campanula
Allium cernuum
Ligularia fischeri and white-lipped snail
Ligularia fischeri
Opium poppy
Opium poppy
Codonopsis
Aquilegia
200718: Not so good for us is that the good weather has lead to an explosion of the wasp population…on Hylotelephium (Sedum), Autumn stonecrop
200718: Wasp on Hylotelephium (Sedum), Autumn stonecrop
200718: Bee on Hylotelephium (Sedum), Autumn stonecrop
200718: Bee on Hylotelephium (Sedum), Autumn stonecrop
My wonderful leopard slugs are feeling it….and I’m happy there will soon be even more of them!! At night, when fertile leopards meet they begin to court, circling and following each other, nibbling each other and touching …The two slugs climb up into a tree or other structure, then hang from a branch on a thick strand of mucus, intertwined with one another….lovely!!
Learn more of the wonderful world of leopard slug sex here:
I love my nodding onions (Allium cernuum) as you can read in my book and the diversity of forms increases as each year passes, both as I introduce new varieties and as they self-seed….and the bees love them too..
I finally got my Tiny pond back it into life today after 5 years trying to get rid of the Equisetum (water horsetail?) I foolishly planted many years ago…also removed the Zizania aquatica (Manchurian wild rice) which was also taking over..
Unfortunately seem to have lost my ALlium VAlidum (swamp onion), one of the 80 in my book, so if you are one of those I sent seed to, you know what to do :)
I have planted plenty of Saxifraga pensylvanica though, looking forward to trying that one!
