(Norwegian offer below)
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 PLANTS CELEBRATES ITS 10th BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK!
19th November 2014: I wrote here on FB “I’m proud to announce that on Wednesday 19th November my book arrived at the publishers in the UK who began sending out pre-orders straight away” and “Looking for a Xmas present? IT’S FINALLY OUT: My book, 7 years in the making, Around the World in 80 plants”
The book, which describes my 80 favourite perennial vegetables and edimentals, is selling better than ever and I recently bought more from the publisher (picture). To celebrate, I am selling signed copies of the book in Norway for 10% off plus postage (20% for two or more) until 23rd November and can then be delivered in time for Xmas (kr 270 or kr 240). Please send me your address, mobile number and email and any instructions for a dedication in the book.
I will be able to send a few signed copies in time for Xmas in the UK (orders by 1st December) or direct from the publishers (not signed) at https://shop.permaculture.co.uk
In North America it can be bought from Chelsea Green (https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/around-the-world-in-80-plants)
Norwegian
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 PLANTS FEIRER 10-ÅRSDAGEN DENNE UKEN!
19. november 2014 skrev jeg her på FB “Jeg er stolt over å kunngjøre at onsdag 19. november kom boken min til forlaget i Storbritannia som begynte å sende ut forhåndsbestillinger med en gang” og “Leter du etter en julegave? DEN ER ENDELIG UTE: Boken min, 7 år på vei, Around the World in 80 plants»
Boken, som beskriver mine 80 favoritt flerårige grønnsaker og edimentals, selger bedre enn noen gang, og jeg har nylig kjøpt mer fra forlaget (bilde). For å feire selger jeg signerte eksemplarer av boken i Norge til 10 % rabatt pluss porto (20 % for to eller flere) frem til 23. november og kan da leveres i tide til jul (kr 270 eller 240 kr for boken). Vennligst send meg din adresse, mobilnummer og e-post og eventuelle instruksjoner for en dedikasjon i boken.
Monthly Archives: November 2024
World Garden November Salad
14th November 2024: Although the World Garden I’ve created at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim is mostly perennials, I fill up gaps with some annuals and biennials and some of them continue right up to the first frosts when they become mush. Most of next week is forecast to be sub-zero day and night, so this was the last chance to harvest. See below the pictures for the ingredients list. 
All the following were used in the salad and all were harvested in the World Garden!
Perennials:
Rumex acetosa subsp vinealis (wine sorrel / vinsyre)
Rumex acetosa “Abundance” (sorrel / engsyre)
Taraxacum tortilobum (Moss-leaved Dandelion / mosebladet løvetann)
Allium sativum (garlic / hvitløk)
Cirsium canum (Queen Anne’s thistle / Dronning Annes tistel); tubers
Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke / jordskokk); tubers
Annuals/Biennial:
Anthriscus cerefolium (chervil / hagekjørvel)
Petroselinum crispum (parsley / persille)
Fedia cornucopiae (horn of plenty)
Glebionis coronaria (chopsuey greens / kronkrage
Daucus carota (carrot / gulrot)
Brassica rapa “Målselvnepe” (turnip / nepe)
Flowers:
Calendula officinalis (pot marigold / ringblomst)
Malva moschata “Alba” (musk mallow / moskuskattost)
Fedia cornucopiae (horn of plenty)
Raphanus sativus (radish / reddik)
Allium dispersal
Allium dispersal?
Well, this week was the week when vegetatively propagated onions from the Allium Garden Chicago in Trondheim were dispersed to members of the Norwegian Seed Savers organisation (KVANN; kvann.no) across the country for safekeeping (backup) and, hopefully spreading onwards in a year or two to other members! It’s been a very busy week digging up, sorting and packing altogether 271 portions of 62 varieties to 54 members! In case you were curious, below is the list of Alliums and a few other things I had promised folks. There were sent many land races of Allium x proliferum (luftløk / walking onion) and also many sand leek land races (Allium scorodorprasum)
It’s too late to order now, but seed will be offered in the new year.
1 Allium “Wietses onion”
2 Allium brevistylum
3 Allium caeruleum (bulbils)
4 Allium carolianum
5 Allium cernuum «Alan Kapuler»
6 Allium cernuum «Dwarf White»
7 Allium cernuum “Tall White”
8 Allium cernuum x stellatum “Hammers Planteskole”
9 Allium douglasii
10 Allium fistulosum «Ex-Salatnyj 35»
11 Allium flavum “Blue Leaf”
12 Allium flavum var minus
13 Allium hookeri var muliense
14 Allium hymenorhizum
15 Allium ledebourianum
16 Allium moly
17 Allium angulosum x nutans “Norrlandsløk fra Lund”
18 Allium nutans
19 Allium nutans “Isabelle”
20 Allium ochotense “Tei, Japan”
21 Allium schoenoprasum subsp boreale Stonglandseidet, Senja (Siberian chioves)
22 Allium scorodoprasum unknown variety
23 Allium scorodoprasum Abrahamsplassen
24 Allium scorodoprasum Bornholm, Danmark
25 Allium scorodoprasum Grums, Sverige
26 Allium scorodoprasum Homborsund Fyr
27 Allium scorodoprasum Kvinnherad /Uppsala
28 Allium scorodoprasum Møvik, Kristiansand
29 Allium scorodoprasum Slovakia
30 Allium scorodoprasum Tjörn i Bohuslän, Sverige
31 Allium tuberosum “Sibbo” (Swedish heirloom)
32 Allium victorialis
33 Allium victorialis “Røst”
34 Allium wallichii
35 Tulbaghia “Cosmic”
36 Luftløk unknown
37 Luftløk 5-story
38 Luftløk Amish Spreading
39 Luftløk Beito
40 Luftløk Borøya, Tvedestrand
41 Luftløk Egyptian USA
42 Luftløk Grandma Pfeifer USA
43 Luftløk Labråten, Asker
44 Luftløk Lachmanns vei, Oslo
45 Luftløk Landeskogen Tuberkulose Sanatorium, Agder
46 Luftløk Lindesnes Fyr
47 Luftløk Malvik
48 Luftløk Ottawa Canada
49 Luftløk Sandholmen, Dønna
50 Luftløk Sola
51 Luftløk Sunnfjord
52 Luftløk Øyer, Innlandet
53 Luftløk Udøy, Mandal
54 Luftløk Forsand i Lysefjorden, Sandnes
55 Luftløk Varaldsøy, Kvinnherad
56 Luftløk Volga German
57 Luftløk Vollsveien på Jar, Bærum
58 Luftløk Tungenes Fyr, Randaberg
59 Luftløk Øyvind Erland
60 Tricyrtis sp. (toad lily)
61 Aralia cordata
62 Allium x cornutum “St Jansuien, Nederland”
63 Elaeagnus umbellatus
64 Sagittaria latfolia
65 Papaver somniferum Miks
50 Garden Pea Varieties
Every year I grow 15-20 different garden pea (Lathyrus oleraceus / Pisum sativum) varieties and they’ve now all been dried, I’ve taken seed of those I want to continue with or share with members of KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) and the remainder will become delicious multivariety pea soup in winter:
It turns out that I altogether have exactly 50 varieties in my seed vault (i.e, the cellar), some of which are only grown every 3rd year. Some are modern varieties, others Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish and UK heirlooms. Today I was sorting the packets and peas in old packets (more than 4 years old) were added to the soup mix! I recycle seed packets, so not many of these packets were originally for peas!