On my recent quick visit to my parents in Hampshire, UK, we did a walk from St Cross to Winchester along the River Itchen with Mum (89) and […]
Community Garden
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Chance meeting with the founder of Good Neighbor Gardens in San Diego!
A chance meeting on the train from Oslo to Trondheim yesterday with Mia Vaughnes who is project coordinator and founder of Good Neighbor Gardens in San Diego ! […]
Garden tour / Permaculture
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The Teeny Weeny Farm
It’s only taken me two years to blog about the garden at Teeny Weeny Farm, a permaculture inspired market garden in the teeny village of Dyke in Morayshire […]
Birds
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Birds in the garden this week
Sitting quietly working in the garden and there’s always something new that happens…see here! Post Views: 176
Berries / Drying
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Processing blackberries and plums
Early ripe blackberries (bjørnebær) and plums (sviskeplommer)….will be overripe or rotten by the time I return from my trip to England, Ireland and Hurdal! So, I’ve dried those […]
Fjord views / Sun
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September sunrise
I don’t have to wake up in the middle of the night to see the sunrise, now at around 6 am! Post Views: 149
Onions
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More planting in the Allium garden
The last 3 days I’ve been documenting which Alliums at the Ringve Botanical Garden collection didn’t make it from last autumns plantings, finding replacements and also collecting many more […]
Drying / Fruit
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Glut of Courgettes
What to do with the present glut of courgettes (aka zucchinis / baby marrows)? Once dried, they taste slightly sweet raw! Post Views: 163
Butterflies and moths
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Painted lady on old man’s beard
Painted lady on old man’s beard this morning ! (Tistelsommerfugl på tysk klematis) Post Views: 161
Garden tour
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Climate Festival garden tour 2018
I’ll once again be inviting Trondheim Climate Festival (Klimafestivalen i Trondheim) to hear about and witness climate friendly vegetable growing in my garden this Thursday (6th September)…tickets are […]
Edimentals / Forest Gardening
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Ligularia hodgsonii
Ligularia hodgsonii is a new edimental I’m trialling in a very shady part of the garden…ornamentally speaking it complements the 4-5 other species of Ligularias I’m growing by […]
Fungi / Salad
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The tastiest time of year?
One of, my favourite culinary times of year…the last two evenings I’ve eaten fresh broad bean falafels accompanied by fresh orange milkcaps / granmatriske (Lactarius deterrimus) and a […]
Edimentals
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Edimental of the Day on twitter
Here are the first of my edimental of the day plants, both annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees and climbers! Enjoy! 0 010818 Allium caeruleum (Blue-of-the-Heavens) pic.twitter.com/VhjAxsp9pC 1 020818 Monarda […]
Birds
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Disturbing the peace!
A siberian nutcracker disturbing the peace in the woods :) Post Views: 108
Birds
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Craning their heads?
I heard cranes calling from the fields at Kvegjerdet as I started off into the woods, so went to have a look! They hear my phone at the […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Another afternoon in the forest!
More work :( There were again large numbers of perfect Lactarius deterrimus (granmatriske / false saffron milkcap or orange milkcap), which is a mycorrhizal fungus that associates with Norway […]
Birds
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Siskin on the yellow melancholy thistle
A small sacrifice (in extra weeding) is to let thistles set seed…I can then watch siskins (grønnsisik) feeding only a few metres away! Here on Cirsium erisithales (yellow […]