I was surprised to find these Ostrich Ferns / Strutseving almost over this morning in Leangenbukta (Trondheim)! I had checked the ones in my garden last night and there was no sign of the fiddleheads yet! This is the earliest I’ve ever seen fiddleheads here!
Norway has enormous amounts of fiddleheads that only a few people harvest….they should be boiled for 15 minutes or steamed for10 minutes to kill any pathogens.
Incredible Edible Todmorden meets the Extreme Salad Man 25th May 2015
I’m really happy to have been asked to give a talk at Todmorden, a place and people who have inspired so many people around the world. All are welcome to this unique opportunity to spend a day in Todmorden with me, with the following program:
9:00 – 10:30 Visit to Incredible Farm (Permaculture inspired)
11:00 – 12:30 Incredible Edible Todmorden (guided tour)
14:00 – 17:00 Around the world in 80 plants (talk)
Information about price (it won’t be expensive) and local accomodation will follow!
For more information, contact Estelle at estelle@incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk
After 3 weeks abstinence, it’s fantastic to be back foraging my garden :)
Tonight’s greens… and browns…and reds: Heracleum sibiricum, Alliaria petiolata, Hablitzia, Allium nutans, Taraxacum officinale “Vert de Montmagny”, Urtica dioica, Allium sativum, Capsicum annuum and Craterellus tubaeformis.
A Swedish PhD thesis concludes that there is large variation in the properties of horseradish found in plant collections in the Nordic countries (old naturalised and garden accessions). The diversity is large both in chemical content, form and appearance and DNA. This is somewhat surprising for a vegetatively propagated plant!
http://www.skogoglandskap.no/nyheter/2015/stor_genetisk_variasjon_i_nordisk_pepperrot
English thesis summary
http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/11629/
The latest Nordic Permaculture Magazine, out on Friday includes an article about:
“Permakulturhave (Permaculture Garden)
Høj diversitet (High diversity)
Højt mod nord (Far to the North)”
I wonder where that might be ;-)
I still can’t get used to the amazing upsurge in interest in grow your own, particular amongst youngsters! This afternoon, members of the newly formed Kneiken Felleshage (Kneiken Communal Garden in Trondheim) visited my garden and we discussed everything from seaweed as fertiliser to Tromso Palm! You guys are so inspiring and I’m honoured to be part of it….look forward to collaborating more in the future!
Unknown to them, they automatically joined Norwegian Seed Savers (Planteklubben for Grønnsaker) as I gave them a special Jerusalem Artichoke / Jordskokk – North American Stampede, which visually is identical to our earliest variety Dagnøytral (Dayneutral).
Hablitzia is spreading in my garden and sometimes appears in plant pots, here in a large pot grown bay tree that I move inside for the winter in a cold room. It doesn’t seem bothered by lack of freezing temperatures
So far this year the temperature has been over 5 deg C above average, the highest start to the year since records began! Yesterday, 14th March I harvested these Hablitzia shoots outside for a salad!
In recent years, I’ve been experimenting with seed of perennials for winter greens, here the first time I’ve tried lovage / løpstikke sprouts. I sowed in November in a large pot left outside as they may not germinate without cold treatment. I then moved inside to an unheated room at the beginning of March and now there’s been mass germination and the taste is pretty good too :)
