I’ve shared my list of plants that I’ve planted in Trondheim’s World Garden to a few people who’ve asked and now it’s available to anyone who is curious […]
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Birds
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Goldfinches on the Veranda
Success!! The local flock of overwintering goldfinches (stillits) have found the food I’ve grown on the veranda! I grow burdock (borre) as a root vegetable in a large […]
Seed / Seed Saving / Self Sufficiency
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025
Added a few on 8th February 2024 (search for NEW)Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2024-2522, 23, 24 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning […]
Tubers
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XMAS 2024 RHIZODIVERSITY
Presenting this year’s 34 rhizophantastic Xmas vegetables, all roasted in the oven, served as every year in the last 40+ with veggie nut roast, bedecked with the following […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Around the garden in 40 plants
To celebrate 40 years since I and my then wife Eileen bought Bergstua (literally house on the rock) and the garden that became The Edible (Forest) Garden, I […]
Food / Nettles / Perennial vegetables
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Soba perennial veg stir-fry
This week’s perennial veg stir-fry with soba (buckwheat noodles), Japanese style contained the following (roughly left to right in the picture):Nettles / stornesle (Urtica dioica)Burdock / storborre roots […]
Perennial vegetables
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A video tour of the World Garden
A video tour on my youtube channel showing what’s emerging in The World Garden (Verdenshagen) at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Ranheim, Trondheim, Norway on 7th May […]
Root crops
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Root hairs and burdock
I used some burdock / borre root (Arctium lappa) in an oriental stir-fry the other day. They’ve been stored in autumn leaves in the cold cellar since autumn […]
Seed sAVING
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2023-2024
Welcome to my new seed trade list for 2023-2421, 22, 23 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as I don’t have many plants of […]
Food / Tubers
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Rhizo-bacalhau
We occasionally eat wild fish and bacalhau is a favourite made from Norwegian dried cod that can be found in supermarkets here. More or less anything goes in […]
Food / Root crops
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Xmas diversity from the rhizosphere
Presenting this year’s 30 rhizosphantastic Xmas vegetables, all roasted in the oven, served as every year in the last 40 with nut roast, bedecked with the following seeds […]
Root crops
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Burdock harvest
I have a large bucket on the balcony where i grow greater burdock (Arctium lappa) for the birds, Both goldfinches (stillits) and greenfinches (grønnfink) eat burdock seed in […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Food / Pollinators
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Sweet Gigas stalks
Somebody asked me a few days ago if one could eat Angelica gigas (Korean Angelica) as you can Angelica archangelica (see my book Around the World in 80 […]
Birds
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A Charm of Goldfinches
With heavy wet snow overnight weighing down all the plants in the garden together with plummeting air temperature, a flock of goldfinches (stillits) (collectively known as a Charm) […]
Seed / Seed sAVING
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2021-2022
WELCOME TO MY NEW SEED TRADE LIST FOR WINTER 2021-22, THIS YEAR WITH 323 VARIETIES19, 20, 21 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as […]
Birds / Pollinators
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Burdock for goldfinches
I’ve written a series of articles in 3 parts “Fuglevennlige planter i hagen” (Bird friendly plants in the garden) for the magazine of our national bird society (NOF, […]
Butterflies and moths
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Moths in The Edible Garden
NB! The album and information at the bottom will be added to over timeWhen I was a student in Edinburgh in the late 70s, I started in earnest […]
Seed sAVING
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2020-2021
WELCOME TO MY NEW SEED TRADE LIST FOR WINTER 2020-21, THIS YEAR WITH 334 VARIETIES18, 19, 20 indicate the harvesting year for the seed. Concerning seed quantity: as […]
Birds
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Is feeding birds a good thing?
Feeding birds in winter isn’t necessarily a good thing and at least one study has shown that birds lay lower numbers of eggs when fed well, perhaps due […]
Birds
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Goldfinches on the feeder
Two goldfinches were on the bird feeder today. So far this winter I’d only seen on natural food – burdock (Arctium seeds).
Seed / Seed sowing
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THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2019-2020
Updated 24th Feruary 2020 WELCOME TO MY NEW SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2019-20, THIS YEAR WITH 390 VARIETIES17, 18, 19 in brackets indicates the harvesting year for the […]
Walk and talk
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Walk and talk at Jøssåsen
I enjoyed my visit to Jøssåsen Landsby (Camphill Village) here in Malvik in the inland higher part of Malvik kommune. It’s too long since I visited! Inger Line […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Sweet and sour stir-fry ingredients
Last night’s ingredients for a “sweet and sour” stir fry: (from left to right) – Allium cernuum (chicago onion / prærieløk), Crambe maritima (sea kale / strandkål) broccolis, […]
Birds / Flower stalk / Food / Forest Gardening / Root crops
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The many faces of burdock
One of my favourite multi-purpose vegetables and one of my first unusual vegetables that I grew in my garden in the 80s was burdock or borre, more specifically […]