(Norsk tekst finner du nederst: We spent 3 hours this afternoon weeding and starting to extend the KVANN garden at the Væres Venner Community Garden at Ranheim today!
We need more people to help, so please let me know if you’d like to be added to an email list to get a warning if we are planning to work on the garden! It was great to see how the field is now full of pollinators and other benefiicial insects like ladybirds. The pollinators (bees and hoverflies were on wild thistles and hoverflies were very interested in the quinoa which is now in flower (see the video below)
(Norsk: Vi tilbrakte 3 timer i ettermiddag med luking og jeg begynte å utvide KVANNs hage hos Væres Venner Felleshagen på Ranheim i dag!
Vi trenger flere folk til å hjelpe, så vær så snill å gi meg beskjed hvis du vil bli lagt til i en e-postliste for å få en advarsel hvis vi planlegger å jobbe i hagen!)
The KVANN garden is a nursery at the moment and many of the plants such a walnuts, Hazels etc will be planted in different parts of the garden next year!
Quinoa “Stephe” and broad beans
Too little space for all the plants….time to extend…but it was hard work with the dry soil in the heat, so this is as far as I got!
The 4th Perennialen was the shortest yet, a short visit to Eirik and Hege’s wonderful place and LAND centre at Alvastien in Hardanger after the Nordic Permaculture Festival in Jondal! This year’s participants were Eirik and Hege, Meg, Karoline from Myrrhis in Denmark, Julia Sol and LAND coordinator Helene Bøhler!
Next year will be the 5th Perennialen and we will be inviting you to a road trip around great permaculture sites of Hordaland and Hardanger in May, so watch this space!
Swim in an unusually warm Fyksesundet; in the water can be seen bark being retted for fibre extraction (Hege’s latest project)!
Eirik showed us around his Forest Garden, here with Karoline and Helene!
The forest garden with Cirsium oleraceum (cabbage thistle / kåltistel)
A few pictures from a great weekend in Jondal at the Hardanger Academy for Peace, Development and Environment
A few pictures of edibles in the garden of the flat we stayed in in Jondal!
Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)
Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)
An oriental hybrid lily
Campanula
Canna
Hosta
Begonia
Rose
…and the last set of pictures is from a trip to the Folgefonna glacier, only 35 mins to drive from sea level at Jondal to the ski lifts for summer skiing! The pictures are mostly of edible plants seen right next to the ski centre!
The commonest butterfly here in July is the Arran Brown (fløyesesringvinge), but they don’t often stay still like this one resting on Sanguisorba canadensis leaves…
Despite the fact that this species has its English name after the Scottish Island Arran, it’s uncertain if it has been found in the British Isles, a case of confusion with the Scotch Argus butterfly?
The Saskatoons (Amelanchier alnifolia “Thiessen”) ripened early this year and I was too late netting them against the birds….a young fieldfare (gråtrost) was eating the berries yesterday morning, photographed from where I was breakfasting…blue tits (blåmeis) were also joining in the party…
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
