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Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden

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Adaptogen (1)

Rhodiola research in Norway

Allium cernuum (3)

Fjord views 9th February 2021

Sulfur containing winter greens

Slimax maximus

Allotment (2)

Visit to Pro Specie Rara

Stavanger and around

alpine plants (2)

The Youngs of Aberdeen

Vennafjellet: 3rd July 2016

Annuals (43)

World Garden November Salad

Black mustard seed

A diversity of rat’s tails

Early July Veg

Indian summer flowers

White-flowered Sonchus oleraceus

A diversity of garden orach

No thanks no dig

Red shiso

Devil’s claw as an edible house plant

Elephant Head

Black onion seed in Malvik

Opium poppy season is here again

Shungiku Soba

Garlic Barley Weedotto!

Bladder dock

No dig?

Perennial puha, Sonchus kirkii in Malvik

Edible gutters

A 2012 visit to the Århus CSA near Skien, Norway

Poppy “weeds”

From Malta to Japan and back again

Garden pictures 24th-25th September 2016

A Sonchus oleraceus variety?

Joke plants

Weekend garden pictures

Sonchus seed

Hailstone

Broad beans and chicory

More weedo wierdo pesto

Tonight’s veggies; 24th June 2015

Russian veggie seed

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Salad from the tunnel; 12th January 2015

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Weed art

World Record Salad Invite

The book is now shipping…and at a special price from Permanent Publications!

A little salad recipe :)

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

An Edimental salad

Anredera cordifolia (2)

3 Basellaceae for Xmas dinner

Beredskapshagen (Preparedness Garden) i Valdres

Art (2)

Artist in Residence Elin Eriksen

Korsmo’s Dandelion Print

Art Exhibition (1)

Unpacking the Edimentals Herbarium

Article (23)

EDIMENTALS REACH MAINSTREAM HORTICULTURE

Trøndersk geirlauk: tilbake etter 1000 år på Island

Giant Ulleung Celery

Artikkel om Hablitzia i Listera / 2009

Artikkel om Hablitzia i Hagebladet / 2006

Om Spiselige Norske Fremmede Arter / About edible Norwegian alien species

Svartelistet norske matplanter

Om Norrlandsløk / Norrland Onion

Mot en Norsk Spiselig Flora / Towards a Norwegian Edibles Flora

Dave du Feu still inspiring after all these years!

30 years in Norway salad

Artikler om grønnsaksarven fra Hagetidend

Edimentals reach India!

2002 Norwegian Article on Ostrich Fern

Une salade avec 537 différentes plantes

My Permaculture Design Certificate project report

On the World’s Vanishing Vegetables

Verdens mest spiselig hagen (the world’s most edible garden)!

Article in Austrian der Presse am sonntag

Around the World in Concrete

Article in Arche Noah magazine

Blomster på Matbordet i Nationen

Haredylle: gratis mat på alle kontinenter

Selecting for a local early broad bean

Red Cheeks and Fingerprints

Mini-glut of runner beans

Broad bean (fava) pakora

Broad Bean Diversity contributes to Resilience

Edimental Runner Beans

Towards a record early harvest

Broad Bean Mix

No thanks no dig

Runner bean pizza

Broad beans, falafels, new potatoes and golpar

Dandelonion bhajis

Broad bean diversity 2018

Felafel: first harvest from the KVANN garden at Væres Venner!

19th October 2014 Falafel

Perennial thicket bean update

Edible Lupins

Yam beans

Black-flowered broad bean

Germinating Phaseolus polystachios

Ianto’s Yellow Fava Bean

Black flowered broad bean

Beer (2)

Gamle Norske Humle

Report on old Norwegian Hop clones

Bees (17)

Disturbance Leg-lift Response

Two spring signs

No shortage of bumblebees

Wagtail at the North Pole

Unusual Pollinators

Red-tailed bumblebee: new species for the garden

Bumble bee in snow

Bumblebees love Allium pskemense

Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds

The bee and the crocus

Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!

KVANN’s garden at Væres Venner

Early May in Malvik

Bees and other pollinators on edimentals

Nodding onion season

Stavanger and around

Umbrellifers for the bees!

Beetles (1)

Bee beetle

Berries (62)

Autumn berries and fruit

North American Forest Garden

More fruit and berry leather

July berries

Glencoe-like fruit from Black raspberry seed!

Autumn Olives

Redwings

Second visit from Pine Grosbeaks

Late Fresh Berries

Dried fruit salad

Lemon Berberis

Blackcap on Elderberries

Illinois Everbearing Mulberries

Towards a record early harvest

Bumble bee in snow

Yew for redwing

Waxwings: soon on the way south?

Maximum waxwings

More waxwings

Female blackaps

Surrounded by waxwings

Waxwings on yew

Worcesterberries

The last blackberries

The return of the waxwings

Thrush invasion

Yew berry year and the vine

Rowans and thrushes

Black Golden Currants

Processing blackberries and plums

Dried bilberries

Fevollbergan forage

Birds love saskatoons too…

Elderberries are ripe

Worcesterleather and dried Aronia berries

Black raspberries /Svartbringebær

Walk with Bosse in the Gothenberg Botanics

Birds sharing Amelanchier alnifolia “Thiessen”

Extreme winter record salad

Worcesterberry marbles

Worcesterberries? still going strong

Elderberry harvest

Train journey from Vikhammer to Røra

Apricotberries

Black raspberries 2016

Fungi 26th August 2016

Drying berries

Cycle home forage!

Wood dried elderberries

Berries 17th October 2015

The Strawberry-Raspberry

Drying Worcesterberries and Saskatoons

Watermelon berry

Black raspberry

My first Haskap berries

Holma Forest Garden video!

70 Waxwings in the garden

Beverages (5)

Coffee Tea

Would you like a cuppa?

Dandelion Latte

Report on old Norwegian Hop clones

Daina discovers secret life of coffee

Biannuals (13)

Unusual October veg

Early July Veg

Indian summer flowers

Samaritan’s Goatsbeard: new species for The Edible Garden

Tragopogon capitatus

Cicoria Fantastica!

Late or early?

Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon/Chorogi/Madeira vine tuber harvest

The Edible Japanese Bluebell!

Weekend garden pictures

Broad beans and chicory

Alliaria capers

In search of the purple caraway

Biennial (4)

World Garden November Salad

Two new salsify relatives for the Edible Garden!

Summer Time

Karvekaalsuppe

Biodiversity (5)

A Blessing in Disguise

Insect Biodiversity in The Edible Garden

Batman, biodiversity and food

Early spring moths and sallow

Chiffchaff and Willow

Biological control (1)

Biological control

Birds (378)

Earliest woodpigeon

Goldfinches on the Veranda

Bullfinch feeding on Guelder Rose

Goldfinch on snow-covered burdock

Siskin visit

Silent Spring / Den Tause Våren

Sleepless night counting geese flocks

First Chaffinch

Balcony fieldfare

Whooper Swans in Malvikbukta

Fuglevennlige planter

Waxwings on apples

Robin in my indoors forest garden

Robin joined me for breakfast

Don’t cut those nettles, share them with wildlife

Shelduck visit

Closest Crane

Fall of thrushes

Bullfinch on guelder rose

Waxwing and Tawny Owl

White-tailed eagles

Female pied flycatcher

How do they do it?

The Birds

January storms

New House Sparrow record

Stock Dove: A new species for the garden

A Charm of Goldfinches

Natural bird food is best

Redwings

Burdock for goldfinches

Second visit from Pine Grosbeaks

Rose-ringed parakeet

Parakeet in Malvik

Chiffchaff flycatching indoors

The Heron and the Eagle

There’s always one: blue tit taking a shower!

Blackcap song

Common gull commotion

Cuckoo in the garden

Shelduck feeding

Wagtail at the North Pole

Good times for gulls

Redwings are back

Pinkfeet fly-past

Woken by Troglodytes troglodytes

Shelducks return

Hoodies struggle against the wind

Largest flock of goldies!

Helping Yellowhammers

Regulus regulus in the garden

Mallard in the Bay

New species seen from the house

Is feeding birds a good thing?

Good times for Jackdaws

Snow and fieldfare flock

Blackcap on Elderberries

Bullfinch Nettle Feast

Tawny owl in the garden

Spotted flycatchers on the perch

Wren in the indoors forest garden

Magpie bathing

Biological control

Siberian Nutcracker feeding young in the garden

Pinus cembra shedding

Lesser Whitehroat in the garden

Robin’s fiend #1

Icterine warbler and Brambling

Singing Brambling

Common gulls house hunting

A tour of the lower parts

Third day of snow

3 swallows don’t make it summer

Close dunnock encounter

The wild dawn call of the Curlew

Dawn chorus of one: 23rd March 2020

Silent Spring?

March Waxwing

Nervous blackcap on apple

Waxwings are still here

Redpolls everywhere

Did the hawfinch spot me?

Goldfinches on the balcony

Redpolls

Goldfinches on the feeder

Jackdaws 29th January 2020

Yew for redwing

Whooper swan family

Hoodie has a scratch!

Best to keep your distance

Waxwings: soon on the way south?

Redwings: more common in winter!

Goldfinches and Burdock

Tawny owl in the botanical garden

Siskins dining on the roof

Maximum waxwings

Fieldfare drinking snow

Heavy snow and mother of pearls

210 Waxwings

Snow birds

Synchronised waxwings

The pitter patter of birch seeds

Bramblings and nettles

Bramblings

More waxwings

Female blackaps

Jackdaws over the bay and house

Surrounded by waxwings

Pine grosbeaks in the garden

Waxwings on yew

Greenfinch on burdock

The return of the waxwings

Nutcracker juggling with a nut

Thrush invasion

Up and down

Yew berry year and the vine

Eider serpent

The Malvik Eider Monster

Close encounter with a cuckoo

Biological control

Woodpigeons and the opium poppy

Nutcracker song in the garden

Fieldfare in the garden

Swallows, swifts and a heron

Robin singing at 10 pm

Greenfinch eating goatsbeard seed

Double wave reflections at 11pm sunset

Woodpigeon at dawn

Treecreeper at Tøyen

Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds

Brambling song in the garden

Bulfinch visit at Apple blossom time

Female Pied Flycatcher

Eurasian siskins on pine

15 Swallows don’t make a summer!

Today it was the blue tit!

My friend Robin redbreast!

Chaffinch

Robin is back

Drum solo

Hoodies and pussy willows

Large pinkfeet migration ongoing

Yellowhammer song

Great spotted woodpecker territory

Pinkfeet migration

Fieldfares in snow

Goldfinch flock returns

Blackbird greeting

Greenfinches sunbathing

Thirsty goldfinch

Fieldfare and woodpigeon

Hawfinches in the garden

Yellowhammers

Bay swans

Beach Walk 30th December

Another large jackdaw flock

Jackdaws in free fall!

Canada geese fly past

Record jackdaw flock

Flock of woodpeckers?

RIP Bombycilla garrulus

THE BIRDS

Waxwings on apples

Bombycilla garrulus and Coccothraustes coccothraustes

Jackdaw acrobatics

The return of the Goldfinches

Blackcap on yew berries

Blackcap on apples

Redwing on yew

Birds in the garden this week

Disturbing the peace!

Craning their heads?

Siskin on the yellow melancholy thistle

Narcotits 2018

Spotted flycatcher

A scattering of herons

Record Oystercatcher flock!

Birds love saskatoons too…

Greenfinches on Tragopogon

Common gull threatening on the balcony!

Young Hoodie

Dawn on 20th May 2018

Record warm spring

Chiffchaff dance

New wave of migrants

Dunnock and Starlings

Great tit boundary dispute

Large brambling flock

First day of spring sign!

Jackdaws coming in for landing

The first sign of spring

Drumming woodpecker

Snowcreeper?

Robin and redpoll on the bird feeder and eagles on Malvikodden

Birds in the garden 13th February 2018

Mating long-tailed tits?

Yellowhammer and Robin on the bird feeder

Drumming woodpecker

Birds in the garden 7th February 2018

Snow at dawn

White-tailed eagle pair

White-tailed eagle..and the airport

A Gulp, Murder or a Charm?

Bird videos 4th February 2018

Treecreeper foraging on the ground

Drumming in the garden at -10C

Bird count weekend

27th January birds in the garden

Siskins

Bullfinches in the garden

Goldies in the garden

Wrens at Ringve Botanical Garden

Bullfinches on cherry buds

Fieldfare in storm

Birds in the garden 6th January 2018

More birds in the garden; 5th January 2018

Hawfinch pair

Redpolls on anise hyssop

Large Jackdaw Flock

Large Brambling flock

Bullfinches on Norwegian maple seed

Eagle day in Malvik

Goldcrest at Storlien

Bird queen Xmas present

Fieldfares partying!

Hawfinch hoping for a green Xmas

Bramblings on kale seed

Ground feeding redpolls

Nuthatches

Bird paradise!

The many faces of burdock

Goldfinches back on their winter holiday

Autumn bird song gives hope

Redpoll and that wren again

Mallards doing the rounds

Sunrise at the breakfast table

Birds from the breakfast table

The nuthatch and the hazelnut

Fieldfare on rowan

Bramblings in the garden

Chiffchaff fertiliser!

Great tit attacking Hogweed

Robin for company

Birds sharing Amelanchier alnifolia “Thiessen”

Redpolls

Overflying Herons

Nutcracker and greenfinch

Breeding swifts?

Siskins and birch

Pinenut crackers

Blackcap in my dreams?

Vikhammer plants and birds

The pied flycatchers are back

Birds and mammals of BC

Birds seen from the house today 11th March 2017

A welcome from Canada?

Magpies in parliament

Weekend birds

Apple loving Fieldfares

Woodpecker drumming

Garden birds weekend 11th-12th February

Whooper swan family visiting

An ornithological sensation: Red-breasted flycatcher in Malvik!

Bullfinches in the garden

Xmas decorations

Birds in the garden

Greenfinch taking food from the bill of a hawfinch

Sparrowhawk

Hawfinches and Nuthaches

The Goldies are back!

Long-tailed tits

Swifts do stay aloft for 10 months!

Waxwing videos

Norway’s best breakfast…view!

Jackdaws in free fall flight

Jackdaws fly towards the red sky

Waxwings on elderberry

Pink-footed geese migration

House sparrow house insect catching

Long cycle forage to the shops

Tame snipe

Swallows in cold weather

Oystercatcher family

Wheatfield swifts

Posing Heron

Scruffy Siberian Nutcracker

Swift attack

The next generation: white wagtail

Chiffchaff enjoys diamond backs

House sparrow: better late than never

Black throated divers

Greenfinch on Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon seed heads!

The bathing season is upon us!

Spring choir including Icterine Warbler

Starling meeting

Mute swans in the bay

Birds in the garden 14th February 2016

Waxwings and other birds this weekend

Siberian nutcracker and Hawfinch in the garden

Eider calling from the fjord!

Bramblings

Siskins

Goldfinches on chicory

This is an EX-Arctic Parrot

Goldfinches / Stillits

Greenfinches on burdock

Siberian hazelcrackers

The last of the migrants is here

White-tailed Eagle at the railway station; 20th February 2015

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

70 Waxwings in the garden

Blanching (11)

Hosta and Seri salad

St. George’s, ramsons and red-leaved dandelion pasta with Hosta icicles

Wietse’s Onion Soup with Udos, Hosta, Ostrich Ferns, Sea Kale and Ramsons

Japanese Sansai in March

Sprouts in the cellar

The winter’s first salad shoot salad

Bellflower-chokes / Storklokkeskokker

The last roots

Dandelion harvest

Hosta icicles (yuki urui)

Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1

Book (18)

10th Bookiversary Offer

Free temporary access to my book and articles!

Der Essbare Waldgarten von Malvik

Alys meets the Modern Monk in the Edible Garden

5 years of Around the World in 80 plants

Holmboe’s Gratis mat av ville planter

The 5th reprint

Around the World in 80 plants direct from the author!

Visit to Bioforsk Landvik in 2012

Karvekaalsuppe

New Norwegian Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia with Hablitzia and Hosta

Book delivery

Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004

Around the World in 80 plants at TWO!!

On she who wrote Jade Balls and Alien Pearls….

An interview at Holma Forest Garden in Sweden

Most northerly overwintered edible Gunnera?

Around the world in 80 plants shopping list

Book reviews (10)

Incredible “Incredible Wild Edibles” by Sam Thayer

Around the World in 80 plants at TWO!!

Review of ATW in Economic Botany

80 shades of plants: a review in the Annals of Botany blog!

Even Fred Blogs loves my book

Thanks for the reviews, keep em coming!

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

My way of sharing FUN – write about it!!!

Book review in the North Devon Journal

Review in the Ian Young Bulb Log

Botanical Garden (11)

Garden visits with Fosen students

Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden

The Chicago onion garden at Ringve on 23rd July 2018

Weeding Vermont!

Giardini Botanici Villa Taranto

Lake Maggiore and Giardini Botanici dell’Isola Madre

My new “job” and office: a dream come true!!

Edibles in the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria BC

Oak Bay Native Plant Garden

Walk and talk at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific

Visit to the Botanics in Oslo

Brassica (26)

Orange tip and seed saving

Winter protecting my perennial kales

Biological control

More perennial kales

Sustainable kales

A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65

An Aristocratic Vegetable

Lily White in flower

Diamondbacks in their thousands

Diamondbacks are back :(

The Holy Grail Kale and the Janas Ecovillage gardens!

Bramblings on kale seed

Sea Kale Yard on the Solent

Purple-veined variegated perennial Homanics kale!

Perennial kales in my loft room

Diversity of Brassicas in Munich

The Edible Japanese Bluebell!

Taunton Deane Perennial Kale video

Sparrows working hard removing diamond backs

Giant Taunton Deane Perennial Kale

McMillion in Malvik

Alliaria capers

Incredible Vegetables Blog!

My hardiest perennial kale

Visit from Kneiken Felleshage

Perennial kale cuttings!

Breeding (7)

Nytt fra KVANNs hager og samlinger hos Væres Venner i Trondheim

Local runner bean landrace

Broad Bean Mix

Caraway root breeding and Karvekaalsuppe

Breeding swifts?

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

3rd year Paolo JA crosses

Bulbils (3)

Alpine Bistort harvest

Large forms of Alpine Bistort

Foraging the Viviparous Bistort

Bulbs (12)

Ornithogalum pyramidale

Edibles in the January Bulb Garden at the Gothenburg Botanics

Latest ever garlic planting

The bee and the crocus

Oriental and asiatic hybrid lilies

Edimentalilies

At last!

Dog’s tooth violet

Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry

Tigridia flowering again!

Fasciated Martagon Lily

Edimental-cacomitls

Bushes (14)

Walk with Bosse in the Gothenberg Botanics

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

Holma Forest Garden video!

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

SRGC seed has arrived

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

World Record Salad Invite

The book is now shipping…and at a special price from Permanent Publications!

Holma Forest Garden / Holma skogsträdgård June 2014

Alexandra Berkutenko and the Giant Edimentals of the Russian Far East

A little salad recipe :)

Butterflies and moths (49)

A Blessing in Disguise

Insect Biodiversity in The Edible Garden

The least scarce moth is the Scarce Silver Y

Poplar Hawk Moth / Ospesvermer

Early spring moths and sallow

Largest numbers of red admirals

Fleet of Admirals

Impaled moth?

Don’t cut those nettles, share them with wildlife

Chiffchaff and Willow

Emerging sallow catkins and biodiversity on the rise in the garden

Two spring signs

Second visit by Blue Underwing!

Buddleja davidii

Admiral on Urtica kiovensis

Admirals on Monarda

Painted lady on teasle

Second speckled wood

Moths in The Edible Garden

Comma checking punctuation?

Brimstone butterfly and moth

The last Admiral on Buddleja

Red-green carpet

Early Autumn Pollinators

Pink-barred Sallow / Fiolettbåndet Gulfly

Peak butterflies

Iron prominent moth

Painted Ladies vs Red Admirals

Invading Admirals

Painted Lady Larva on Mallow

Butterfly prefers onion to butterfly bush!

Painted lady on old man’s beard

Comma butterfly in the garden

Green-veined white on Patrinia

Dark green fritillary

Not Arran Brown

Garden pebble

Speckled Wood: new for Malvik

For Helge Finnøy

Insects on Hemp Agrimony

Flutterbies

Ligularia japonica and the Admiral

Poplar hawk-moth

Cellar vegetables (10)

A tour of the Edible House cellar!

Cellar and Garden Greens: 6th April 2022

Japanese Sansai in March

The winter’s first salad shoot salad

Falafels and cellar veggie wholegrain pizza!

Harvest (almost) complete

Extreme winter record salad

Tonight’s barlotto

Home grown quinoa patties

Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry

Self-sufficient in Cress

Seed Saving

Cleaning quinoa seed

Climate (1)

Towards a record early harvest

Climbers (81)

Hablitzia under Norway Spruce

Walking’s not healthy for Habbies

Hablitzia Pinaattiohukaiset

Habby Chicago Eggs

Old Man’s Beard

Grape leaves

Habby pizza time with Urui shoots

Habby pea soup

Cold Man’s Beard

First seed saved for 2021

Runner Bean harvest

Hopniss at 63.4N

Mother and daughter habby

Hablitzia: from seed to flowering in 4 months

Hablitzia as a weed!

Floppy Habby

Hablitzia picture gallery

The paradoxical habby pesto

Habby in the snow

Floriferous Hablitzia

Hablitzia accession overview 2019

Oh no, sorry greenbrier…

Artikkel om Hablitzia i Listera / 2009

Habeetsia burgers

Variegated Habby on Nesodden

Hablitzia anti-grazing strategy

Hablitzia tour

Old Growth Hablitzia today!

Variegated Hablitzia on Nesodden

Happy Habby Pizza

Mass Hablitzia germination

Hablitzia forest garden

Dividing 1-year old Hablitzia plants

Old growth Hablitzia status 4th May 2017!

Prestigious prize to Ronny Staquet for his work with Hablitzia!

My oldest Hablitzia, already vigorous in 2004!

My 26 February 2017 Hablitzias

My first wild Hablitzia accession

Hablitzia excavation

Nutritional analysis of Hablitzia

Basella stir-fry

Malabar spinach in my bedroom….

Report on old Norwegian Hop clones

Yam beans

Olive climbing Hablitzia

Nepalese meet their onion in Malvik

Habline!

Hablizzoli

Hablitzia racing anyone?

Hablitzia in snow

Hablitzia and the few-flowered leeks

Bay Hablitzia

Bear Spinach comes out of hibernation

Mass Hablitzia germination for Xmas

Basella harvest

Autumn spring habby

Perennials vs. annuals

Hablitzia seen from the kitchen window after heavy rain

Hablitzia anno 2001!

Hablitzia tamnoides in Oslo

Hablitzia moving indoors

Record Hablitzia harvest

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

The Live in London tapes

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

My way of sharing FUN – write about it!!!

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Riceroot and Hog Peanuts

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Xmas in Malvik

Hablitzia and Digitalis entwined

New Year Hablitzia

This old man’s beard has gone to seed…..

A little salad recipe :)

Heavy snow and mother of pearls

Thunderstorm

Lenticular clouds

Giant Illuminated arrow

Nacreous clouds (mother of pearl) over Trondheim

Coastal plants (2)

The perennial self-fertilising vegetable gardens of Langeland

New Zealand Celery and Porpoise Bay

Community Garden (13)

Garden visits with Fosen students

KVANN’s World Garden

Wagtail at the North Pole

KVANN på Væres Venner 28. mai 2019

KVANN’s Annual Meeting Weekend: Day 3 visit to Væres Venner

Chance meeting with the founder of Good Neighbor Gardens in San Diego!

Væres Venner Community Garden 29th August 2018

Talking in a swimming pool: Neubad and Neugarten

Væres Venner update; 10th August 2018

Weeding at Være

KVANN treff Day 1 at Væres Venner and Presthus Gård

Bastard digging at Væres Venner

Verdenshage and Væres Venner

companion plants (2)

Companion perennials

Accidental companions

compost (1)

Compost heap construction

Conifers (2)

Pine flowering

Eurasian siskins on pine

Course (16)

The 2023 Permaveggies / Forest Gardening course

Announcing the 4th Permaveggies course in the Edible Garden

BINGN Student Visit to the Edible Garden

Perennials at the summer festival at Permalin farm

Tour de Portugal links

Perennial vegetable course at Landås

The final PDC weekend in Malvik

Having permafun in Porsgrunn

Permakultur Grunnkurs /PDC Malvik

Mini tour of Canada

Weekend course at Nesheimstunet

Masterclass #2 at Naturplanteskolen

Day 4 of the Permaveggies course and Ligularia wraps!

Permaveggies course / participant pictures

Permaveggies course Day 1 : Introduction to forest garden design

Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!

cross-country skiing (3)

Skiing up to Skarpåsen

Cross-country ski 12th March

Ski trip at Hønstad 14th February 2016

Cycling (3)

Fungal bonanza by bike and job creation

Bike ride to the shops at Sveberg

Hedgehog crossing

Dandelions (43)

Encouraging dandelions

Dandelions in pink, white and yellow

Dandelion scape, bud and flower omelette

Freedom for Palestine

Doug Clifford eats dandelion

Moss-leaved dandelion = Taraxacum tortilobum

Start of the 2023 Dandelion season

Geeking out with Dandelions

Dissected dandelion bud

Macrogreens and the first Dandelion Flowers

Dandelion shoots in the living room

Tubers and roots; December 2020

Swirly Late Dandelion

Fascinating fasciated dandelions

Japanese white dandelion

A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65

The mossy dandelion

Sprouts in the cellar

The Dandelion Cycle Tyre: Cycling on Dandelions!

White flowered dandelion #2

Taraxacum albidum: Japanese White Dandelion

Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds

More blanched dandelions

Dandelion harvest

Taraxacum atrata

White-flowered dandelion

Shy pink-flowered dandelion

The dandy that’s pink

RIP The King of the Dandelions, Dandelion Dude Peter Gail

Weeded “Pissenlit Coeur Plein Ameliore” is back!

Taraxacum “Hurdal Broad-leaved”

More dandelions

Taraxocks ;)

Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1

Norwegian sansai

Pink dandelion: a new edimentaraxacum!

Red-veined dandelion greens in Portland

In homage to the Taraxagod

Perennial vegetable tempura

Very long dandelion leaf!

More fruit and berry leather

Cornelian Cherries and Polish Olives in Trondheim

October Chantarelles

Processing blackberries and plums

Glut of Courgettes

Dried bilberries

Leather

Pea and broad bean diversity

Apple moon weekend

Worcesterleather and dried Aronia berries

Around the world in 80 Alliums

Persian shallot confusion!

First load of wood dried apples

Broad beans, peas and quinoa

Prune plum harvest

Sour cherry harvest!!

Drying berries

Wood dried elderberries

Arche Noah and the Seewardsee

Ecovillage (2)

Taraxacum “Hurdal Broad-leaved”

Craig Gibsone at Findhorn

Edible flowers (81)

Toad lilies: great edientomentals

Snow onion salad

Happy Easter with a floriferous oxlip

First 2023 Edimental Flowers

“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad

The first 2022 outside salad

20 years of Extreme Salads

Celebration 40 genera salad

Swirly Late Dandelion

Indian summer flowers

A Taste of Myoga

Extreme salad man strikes again

Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic

Japanese white dandelion

A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65

Early May Edible Flower Bouquet

The year’s first extreme salad

The winter’s first salad shoot salad

Edimental of the Day is Malva alcea

Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant

Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds

Dandelion time

Primula veris mutants

Edible plants of the Sintra Natural Park

Mid-October flowers in the Edible Garden

15 year record salad ingredients

7th August multisalad

Chicory flower season

Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!

Half my age party!

Oriental and asiatic hybrid lilies

Edimentalilies

Beschorneria yuccoides

Taraxacum atrata

Sea kale broccoli end of May salad

White-flowered dandelion

More Fast Slow Food

Shy pink-flowered dandelion

Late May flowers in the Edible Garden

Begonia still flowering

Edimental Begonia

The Last PDC salad

Oca still in full flower

Trondheim Food Festival Renaissance Salad

THE 2002 RINGVE RENAISSANCE MEGASALAD

Saturday in Hurdal

The last PDC #2 Supper

Around the world in 80 Alliums

Extreme salad film

Tonight’s slow quiche

Scorzonera in full flower

Filmed extreme salad!

Allium bouquet

Training my granddaughter

Red is the rose

Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche

Extreme May salad

Extreme winter record salad

Around the world with Erythroniums

A bunch of nodding edimental onions

Nepal Exhibition at RBGE

Needle and Thread salad!

Terje Visnes’ salad photo on show!

Nepalese feast in Malvik

Wedding salad

“Have you eaten a flower”

Sherpa and Swedish Norrland onions

Naturplanteskolen Malvik salad

Giant purple throat bellflower

Daina and Martina

Hablizzoli

Fast Slow Edimental Lunch!!

Grennessminde and the fantasy salad beds

Visiting Camilla Plum

Cowslip cultivars

Primula veris “Red Strain”

Pink dandelion: a new edimentaraxacum!

Broad beans and chicory

Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus

White clustered bellflower

Edimentals and Perennial Veg in the RHS The Garden magazine

Asteraceae: valuable autumn flowering edientomentals!

Toad lilies: great edientomentals

Rampions for the hungry gap

Old Man’s Beard

Sweet Gigas stalks

Root Chicory Trials 2021 at Være

Dystaenia heaven

Keeled garlic, a useful winter Allium and edimental in summer

Broad Bean Diversity contributes to Resilience

Swirly Late Dandelion

Scorzonera harvest

Queen Anne’s Thistle: a multi-purpose ediavientomental*

Buddleja Butterflies

Broad Bean Mix

Red-tailed bumblebee: new species for the garden

Bee beetle on the first Sanguisorba flower

Edimental of the Day is Malva alcea

Butterfly prefers onion to butterfly bush!

Opium poppy season is here again

Pink Hogweed

Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!

Edimentals (208)

Little Garden Fish: A New Unexpected Edimental

Edimentals and Perennial Veg in the RHS The Garden magazine

Asteraceae: valuable autumn flowering edientomentals!

PEAK PERENNIAL VEG TIME AT RHS WISLEY

Dandelions in pink, white and yellow

Two new salsify relatives for the Edible Garden!

EDIMENTALS REACH MAINSTREAM HORTICULTURE

Megacarpaea delavayi

First 2023 Edimental Flowers

“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad

Flowering Aster scaber

Sweet Gigas stalks

Chiugok, Small Bird’s Garlic, a hardy Himalayan edimental

Allium ulleungense: a new vigorous edimental

Keeled garlic, a useful winter Allium and edimental in summer

Broad Bean Diversity contributes to Resilience

Swirly Late Dandelion

Scorzonera harvest

Queen Anne’s Thistle: a multi-purpose ediavientomental*

Indian summer flowers

Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Nettle-leaved bellflower

Runner Bean harvest

Edimental Runner Beans

Edimental Cacomitl Flowering Time

White-flowered Sonchus oleraceus

Broad Bean Mix

Alys meets the Modern Monk in the Edible Garden

Red-tailed bumblebee: new species for the garden

A diversity of garden orach

A visit from Oslo and Kirkenes

Extreme salad man strikes again

Red shiso

Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic

Bee beetle on the first Sanguisorba flower

Devil’s claw as an edible house plant

Ornithogalum pyramidale

Viola canina subsp montana

Samaritan’s Goatsbeard: new species for The Edible Garden

Hostas, scapes and broccolis

Rice lily

Naturalised Giant Bellflower

In the gardens at the Gothenburg Botanics in January

Podcast on Roots and All

Dried Aster Scaber

Cornelian Cherries and Polish Olives in Trondheim

Floriferous Hablitzia

Edimental of the Day is Malva alcea

Opium poppy season is here again

The extreme salad collection

Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant

Variegated Habby on Nesodden

Dandelion time

Primula veris mutants

Appalachian Greens

Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre

Allium atrosanguineum is back

Edibles in Dunedin Botanics

Wisley Gardens March 2019

Jack-on

Edible plants of the Sintra Natural Park

Edimental of the day

Ligularia hodgsonii

Edimental of the Day on twitter

15 year record salad ingredients

7th August multisalad

Chicory flower season

Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!

Oriental and asiatic hybrid lilies

Earthquake proof Crambe!

Edimentalilies

Variegated Hablitzia on Nesodden

Beschorneria yuccoides

Edibles in Bergen’s Muséhagen

Shy pink-flowered dandelion

The dandy that’s pink

Early May in Malvik

Edimentals.com reaches 1,000 posts!!

Baroniet Rosendal

Cicoria Fantastica!

Governor’s House Garden in Victoria BC

EdimAsters

Walk and talk at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific

Incredible Edimentals

Around the world in 80 Alliums

Poppy “weeds”

Recent Alliums in the garden; August 2017

Extreme salad film

Edimentals in the garden; early August 2017

Bees and other pollinators on edimentals

Fly on Codonopsis

Nodding onion season

Scorzonera in full flower

Ligularia japonica and the Admiral

Filmed extreme salad!

Allium bouquet

Tarua

Edimentals hits the Irish Times and Hampden Court Flower Show

Training my granddaughter

Red is the rose

The Utrecht Allium Border

Utrecht Edimentals

58 Salad

Edimental spotting in the Oxford Botanical Garden

Tradescantia ohiensis

Prestigious prize to Ronny Staquet for his work with Hablitzia!

A sour woodland edimental

Rice lily

Around the world with Erythroniums

Wild Japanese Katakuri #1

A bunch of nodding edimental onions

Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004

Nepal Exhibition at RBGE

Needle and Thread salad!

The Edible Japanese Bluebell!

Terje Visnes’ salad photo on show!

Garden pictures 24th-25th September 2016

Edimentals in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanical Gardens

Nepalese feast in Malvik

Shidoke

“Have you eaten a flower”

Jimmu

Fasciated Martagon Lily

Korean Aster on Edimentals

Weekend garden pictures

Allium flavescens?

Edimental-cacomitls

Edimental apples

Fast Slow Edimental Lunch!!

Grennessminde and the fantasy salad beds

Naturplanteskolen looking good!

Cowslip cultivars

Wendy Pillar on Edimentals

Bay Hablitzia

Pink dandelion: a new edimentaraxacum!

Goldfinches on chicory

The Strawberry-Raspberry

Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015

Japanese woodlanders

Broad beans and chicory

Hablitzia seen from the kitchen window after heavy rain

White clustered bellflower

Wild food for 100 days so far

Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”

My first Korean Aster flower

Hablitzia anno 2001!

Hablitzia overwhelming an olive tree

In search of the purple caraway

Kamikaze Horseradish?

Resonating with asparagus in Oslo…..

Hablitzia tamnoides in Oslo

Tonight’s veggies; 24th June 2015

Wine sorrel about to flower

Tall onions

Persian shallot seedlings!

Perennials thrive in a cold spring!

Taraxacum haemanthum

Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!

Taraxacum leucanthum flowering for the first time

The Perennial Bed

First Ostrich Ferns up…

Incredible Edible Todmorden meets the Extreme Salad Man 25th May 2015

Diversity of Nordic horseradish

Article in Permakultur magazine

Visit from Kneiken Felleshage

Hablitzia moving indoors

Record Hablitzia harvest

Svartelistet søtsak (“blacklisted goodies”) article

Permaculture Magazine excerpt from the book!

Onion in escape attempt drama

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

Fourteen new potential Edimentalliums!!

The author of Around the World in 80 plants is guesting on permies.com this week!

Holma Forest Garden video!

Stratifying seed record frost heave

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

SRGC seed has arrived

The Live in London tapes

The many uses of Udo

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

My way of sharing FUN – write about it!!!

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Garlic bulbil sprouts on the way up

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Salad from the tunnel; 12th January 2015

Riceroot and Hog Peanuts

#ATWselfie

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Xmas in Malvik

Hablitzia and Digitalis entwined

Coffee

White River Junction, Chelsea Green and the Coop

New Year Hablitzia

Oca Harvest

Sowing a Vermontian woodland

“If you can’t beat them, eat them…”

Norwegian article from a local Ostrich Fern forage

Interview in Malvikbladet

BBCRadio Solent

World Record Salad Invite

Alys Fowler in the Edible Garden

8 years later…

Norwegian article on Seakale

The book is now shipping…and at a special price from Permanent Publications!

Alexandra Berkutenko and the Giant Edimentals of the Russian Far East

A little salad recipe :)

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

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Butterfly prefers onion to butterfly bush!

Ethnobotanist (1)

RIP Stephen Facciola

Ethnobotany (1)

Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic

Events (3)

Events in 2019 with the Extreme Salad Man!

Perennialen IV

Final programme for Mount Stewart

Exhibitor (1)

KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; Ringve Open Day

Family (1)

1st and 2nd April on Nesodden

Farm (3)

Carmen Porter and Hemmingford

A 2012 visit to the Århus CSA near Skien, Norway

La Ferme des Quatre Temps

Fasciation (4)

Fascinating fasciated dandelions

Fasciated Allium nutans “Lena”

Fasciated Martagon Lily

Cresting on Sweet Aztec Herb!

Fermentation (2)

24 hour oat bread…

World record ferment in Malvik

Ferns (11)

A tour of the lower parts

Green Ostrich Pasta

A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65

In the gardens at the Gothenburg Botanics in January

Permaveggies Course Day 3: Ostrich fern tour along the Homla

Forced ostrich wings…

First Ostrich Ferns up…

Fertiliser (3)

Garden fertility and minerals!

Visit from Kneiken Felleshage

Fertility piling up on the beach today!

Festival (3)

The Nordic Permaculture Festival 2018 in Jondal

Dokka Garden Festival

Hurdal Nordic Permaculture Festival 2013

Fibre plant (5)

The Silk Oak: Quercus mongolica

Slender nettle

Nepal Exhibition at RBGE

Winter storage

Himalayan Nettle

Field trip (2)

Field trip near Vienna #2

Field trip near Vienna

Films (1)

The complete indexed Extreme Salad Man videos

Fjord views (191)

November wake-up views

Early morning views

Red sky rainbow

Today’s view

Fjord views 9th February 2021

Sea Smoke

Xmas views the other way

Fjord views 31st January

Fiery skies over a place called Hell

Haze from East Europe

Night Train from Bodø

Autumn on the way

A Venusglade

This week’s fjord views

Forbordsfjellet sunrise day

Tree reflections in the Bay

Dawn at 3 am

This evening’s entertainment

Sun pillar

Sunset reflection

Twinkle twinkle Trondheims-fjord

Föhn Skyscapes

Greys and browns

The calm before the storm

Third day of snow

More of the white stuff

The wild dawn call of the Curlew

Dramatic Spring Days

Dawn chorus of one: 23rd March 2020

S S S

Moon rise goods train

Full moon 13th October 2019

Home again

Bay view 11th September

Beautiful Red Skies

What the……?

Waking at sunrise

Fjord views at dusk and dawn

Hazy morning

Night returning to Malvik

Tide line

Robin singing at 10 pm

Northern Sunrise

Rainbow 22nd June 2019

Misty morning 16th May in Malvik!

7 am, 13th May 2019

Changing fjord views

Reflections from Stjørdal

Early Rise in Early April

Moonrise over Værnes

Sunrise and the 9:03 from Hommelvik to Trondheim

Northern rainbow

Sea smoke and light shows in Malvik

Patterns on the fjord

Wind, Waves and Warmth

Malvikodden views

Moon and sun reflections in the east

Sea smoke

3am in Malvik

Nightime views

Moonrise 21st November

Today on the fjord

First snow on the hills

September sunrise

Midlights

Sunrise 27th August 2018

Whirligig light show in Skatval

Early morning 18th June 2018

The S returns

Dawn on 20th May 2018

Sun in the east both late and early

Back home!

Snow at dawn

Hell is cold this morning

North East Gale

Almost as bright as midwinter

Sea smoke

Bullfinches on cherry buds

Giant Illuminated arrow

Storm “Cora”

More moons and views; 30th December 2017

Dancing moonlit waves

Forbord illuminations, long dig and leaf piles

October 18th 2017 morning view

Windy day in Malvik

Bodø train in a bow of rain

Low rainbow

Early morning stars

Beaming Trondheimsfjord

11 pm

Intense rainbow at 10pm

A promising start

A Double Rainbow Bridge

Blackcap in my dreams?

Changes

Glittering fjord

Cloud reflections

Northern spring showers

Today’s sky and fjord views: 2nd March 2017

Views from the garden this week

Bright reflection

8th February view

Sunrise views 6th February 2017

Partly obscured by clouds

Moonrise over snow-covered mountains

Red sky in the morning…

Autumn leaves

Dawn 17th October 2016

Another beautiful orange moon rise

Aurora over Malvikodden 13th October 2016

Malvikodden in autumn colours

Perennialen II: Alvastien Telste

The Red Sea of Malvik

Solstice sunrise in Malvik

Sunrise wake-up

Cold but stunning!

22° moon halo meets the aurora

0530am

Hegra bygdekvinnelag garden visit

24th July 2015 views

Tonight’s view, 23rd July 2016

Alien over Malvik

Sunrise on 22nd July

11 pm beach forage!

Sunset on the shore: 4th July 2016

Malvikodden / Tynesodden

Solstice skies

Strawberry clouds

Magical midnight in Malvik!

Lights in the sky!

Airport view

April snow

Good to be jet-lagged

Early morning view 11th March 2016

Longggggg cloud

Malvik dawn 4th March 2016

The bay was on fire this morning

Garden and views 30th-31st January 2016

Afternoon sun

Eagle fly past

Sea smoke

Moonrise 28th December 2015

Malvik Moonbeams; 27th December 2015

20th December fjord views

Views from the garden, 13th December 2015

Secondhand sunlight

Flora (1)

Preparing for Mountain Gardens Flora

flower buds (2)

Flower buds and broccolis from perennial vegetables

Mallows in season #2

Flower stalk (4)

Flower buds and broccolis from perennial vegetables

Mallows in season #2

The many faces of burdock

Burdock flower stalk curry

Food (203)

Scrambled greens

End of February Greens

Dandy Lion Quiche

A conventional salad!

Sochan and Moly scrambled egg Meditteranean style

Saint John’s Eve Felafels

Perennial Pakora day

St George’s Asparagus stir-fry

Soba perennial veg stir-fry

Lunchtime 2nd May Salad

MAC 69 ONION CHEESE

The Full Gap

Runner Bean Falafels

Dandelion scape, bud and flower omelette

Slow barlotto

December omelette

20 year anniversary extreme pizza!

Green pasta

50 and 20 year celebrations

Hablitzia, Laportea and Nettle Gnocchi

Garden foraged perennial veggies: 28th June 2023

Turkish brockets

68th Birthday Mac-Cheese with 68 shoots of 4 species

Hablitzia Pinaattiohukaiset

Wild Enoki, Oca and Hablitzia scrambled eggs

Rhizo-bacalhau

February salad

Habby Chicago Eggs

Seven Vegetable Dishes

Xmas diversity from the rhizosphere

Sweet cicely / chicory root scrambled egg

Sochan tops Mediterranean style

Persian Shallot harvest

Sweet Gigas stalks

42 Pakora veggies

St. George’s, ramsons and red-leaved dandelion pasta with Hosta icicles

Bitter baccalao: roots and greens

Wietse’s Onion Soup with Udos, Hosta, Ostrich Ferns, Sea Kale and Ramsons

Some odds and ends this week in Malvik

Around the World in 80 Mac-Cheese

March soba greens

Harvesting midwinter nodding onions

Xmas day Rhizofantastigora dinner 2021

Extreme 66 ingredient November Salad

Beetroot harvest and “blood” burgers for dinner again

Early July Veg

Flower buds and broccolis from perennial vegetables

Celebration 40 genera salad

Tonight’s pizza greens

May 2021 Extreme Salad

Broad bean (fava) pakora

Fasciated dandelion- udo- sea kale salad

Today’s permaveggies

Perennial Baccalao with victory onions

Habby Mac-Cheese 2021

Perennial veggie saag and stuffed blue congo paratha

Habby pizza time with Urui shoots

Habby pea soup

First Garden Forage of 2021

Japanese Sansai in March

Winter stir-fry

Nettle-leaved bellflower

Hostas, scapes and broccolis

Doggy bag leaves

Norwegian quinoa and swamp greens medley

SO/TR Pizza

Veggie rich pie

Garden wild green soup

Korean tempura and dipping sauce for perennial vegetables

Cherokee Pizza

Green Ostrich Pasta

JA Quiche

A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65

Wild domesticated edibles and 65 habby days

Pizza greens 1st May 2020

Habby-Dandy MacCheese

Quinoa greens

More perennial vegetables for dinner!

Today’s perennial catch

Victory falafels

Caraway root breeding and Karvekaalsuppe

The paradoxical habby pesto

The year’s first extreme salad

Garden produce 6th April 2020

An alternative spring harvest

Taro harvest

Easter decorations

27th March Veggies from the garden

25th March Veggies

19th March Veggies

Self-produce from the garden

More from the garden

Catch of the day!

Slowly Approaching the time of Plenty: Spring!

Dennis’ veggies

Dandelion-leek pizza

The winter’s first salad shoot salad

Himalayan Balsam and Albatrellus ovinus pizza

Runner bean pizza

Rapini salad for Andrew

Pizza Hemerocallis

15th August Salad

Veggie wholegrain pizza with New Zealand Spinach

Saskatoons and salad

Salad for Jolien

Habeetsia burgers

The extreme salad collection

Sonchus and Basil Pesto

Shungiku Soba

Garlic Barley Weedotto!

Perennial pizza

Perennial pakoras

East meets west salad

Bellflower-chokes / Storklokkeskokker

Falafels and cellar veggie wholegrain pizza!

February barl-emm-otto

The first garden forage of the year!

Mast-o Mooseer

Winter quiche

October salad

Das Essgarten-Kochbuch: Überraschende Rezepte mit Funkie, Magnolie und Co.

Felafel: first harvest from the KVANN garden at Væres Venner!

Green sourdough pizza

Emmer multispecies tempura

Nettles and Ramsons Quiche

Sweet and sour stir-fry ingredients

Ragged Jack kale and Siberian onion sourdough pizza

Hosta icicles (yuki urui)

More Fast Slow Food

Belated happy birthday to me

Karvekaalsuppe

Heavy ground elder bread

Happy Habby Pizza

Spring Ryotto

Noxious pizza

What was in tonight’s dinner?

Around the Year with Quinoa in Malvik

Thanksgiving Quiche

Cembra pine cone dip

The many faces of burdock

Burdock flower stalk curry

Cicoria Fantastica!

19th October 2014 Falafel

Extreme salad film

Tonight’s slow quiche

Mallow Sorrel Fish Soup

Today’s greens

Scape stir fry

Slow food at last!

Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche

OstrichDandyHeartOmelette

Vippa

2nd May Abundance

Homecoming multi-species omelette

Forced blanched Udo Baccalao

Extreme winter record salad

Food diversity events in Trondheim next week!

Kosmorama Film (and Food) Festival

Tonight’s barlotto

Soba stir-fried cellar vegetables

Golpared onion bhajis

113 veggies in the first week of January!

Skirret-chufa stir-fry

Home grown quinoa patties

First load of wood dried apples

Broad beans, peas and quinoa

24 hour oat bread…

Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry

Curry on the stove

24 hour Danish Rye Bread

Invasive Moonglow Quiche

3 Basellaceae for Xmas dinner

Basella stir-fry

A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!

The Extreme Salad Man at 15!

“Have you eaten a flower”

Barl-ryotto

Naturplanteskolen Malvik salad

Soba with stir-fried Golpared veggies

Nodding onion flower green pasta sauce

Urtigers

Pakora hasn’t met this selection of veggies before!

Ostrich Fern pie

A 230 onion pesto :)

Garden forage 9th April 2015

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Salad from the tunnel; 12th January 2015

Riceroot and Hog Peanuts

#ATWselfie

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Xmas in Malvik

A little salad recipe :)

Forager (2)

Sunny Savage in Malvik

RIP The King of the Dandelions, Dandelion Dude Peter Gail

Foraging (56)

The Big Fungi Haul

Havesting frozen winter chantarelles

Forest bounty

Alpine bistort harvest and the Idas Blue

Top 5 Foraging Guide

Laying down winter chanterelle supplies

Fungal abundance

Wild domesticated edibles and 65 habby days

Winter chantarelles / Traktkantareller

Cranberries

Foraging Alpine Bistort Bulbils

Holmboe’s Gratis mat av ville planter

Foraging the Viviparous Bistort

More blanched dandelions

Sopptur 16th November

Dandelion harvest

In search of the wild asparagus at Bombeira do Guadiana

Edible plants of the Sintra Natural Park

The Wild Plants Lady meets the Extreme Salad Man

The Ecoaldeias Janas extreme salad

Another afternoon in the forest!

Fungal bonanza by bike and job creation

Forage in Malvikmarka

Fevollbergan forage

Vennafjellet walk

The Nordic Permaculture Festival 2018 in Jondal

Sunny Savage in Malvik

Final programme for Mount Stewart

Perennial vegetable course at Landås

Belated happy birthday to me

Homla walk May 2018

Day 2 of the Hvaler Permaveggies Course

Permaveggies course on Hvaler

Spring Ryotto

Extreme Salad Man is a Guest of BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party!!

Foraging in (Old) Hampshire

Hampshire and the Hungry Gap talk!

Incredible “Incredible Wild Edibles” by Sam Thayer

Forbord to Malvik bike push!

Trondheim Food Festival Renaissance Salad

Travelled dandelions

Extreme winter record salad

Two month early spring foragables at 63.5N

Wild edibles in SW England in late February

Wild Japanese Katakuri #1

Bike ride to Findhorn

Skomvær 2014

Skomvær Fyr / Lighthouse: 2-4 August 2013

Edimentals talk at the Royal Botanical Gardens

Trip to the Japanese mountains in April 2016

Shidoke

Mushrooming 20th August 2016

Central Park with Leda Meredith

Cycle home forage!

Day 1 of Naturplanteskolen’s Malvik visit

11 pm beach forage!

Forcing (9)

Happy Easter with a floriferous oxlip

Does udo resprout

Horseradish harvest

Preparing dandelions for forcing

More blanched dandelions

Dandelion harvest

Forced blanched Udo Baccalao

Extreme winter record salad

Udo roots for forcing

Forest Gardening (90)

Fact-finding mission: promoting perennial vegetables

Presthus Skoghage

Sweet Chestnut at 63.4N!

The 2021 Selfies with a 20-year old Udo

Der Essbare Waldgarten von Malvik

Mountain Gardens tour with Joe Hollis

Nettle-leaved bellflower

Ornithogalum pyramidale

Flowering waterleafs

Announcing the 4th Permaveggies course in the Edible Garden

Norwegian Seed Savers establish a guild for Perennial and Forest Gardening vegetables

Norwegian Seed Savers film

Food forest at Landås in Bergen

Permaveggies course on Hvaler

Barstow’s Lund near Lund

Indigenous plant walk in Victoria BC

Alvastien Telste’s Multi-layered Food Forest

The many faces of burdock

Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling

Eirik’s Udo

Food abundance in the Utrecht Botanical Garden

Hosta Superstar and Host in Vienna

In the forest garden on 16th May 2017

Old growth Hablitzia status 4th May 2017!

My oldest Hablitzia, already vigorous in 2004!

Naturalised Allium victorialis in Hardanger, Norway

A sour woodland edimental

Around the world with Erythroniums

My first wild Hablitzia accession

A visit to Riverton in March 2015!

Nutritional analysis of Hablitzia

Findhorn’s Edible Woodland Garden

Perennialen II: Alvastien Telste

Geir Flatabø’s forest garden: Torblålia, Ulvik, Hordaland

Climate Festival garden tours!

Homegrown watermelon berries

Shidoke

New edible woodland garden beds

Giant purple throat bellflower

Yuki-no-shita

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

Hablitzia racing anyone?

Trachystemon flowering in the cellar

Letter from the Prince

Hablitzia tamnoides in Oslo

Perennials thrive in a cold spring!

Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!

First Ostrich Ferns up…

Article in Permakultur magazine

Record Hablitzia harvest

Svartelistet søtsak (“blacklisted goodies”) article

Sowing Ground Elder seed

Permaculture Magazine excerpt from the book!

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

The author of Around the World in 80 plants is guesting on permies.com this week!

Holma Forest Garden video!

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

SRGC seed has arrived

The Live in London tapes

The many uses of Udo

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

My way of sharing FUN – write about it!!!

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Riceroot and Hog Peanuts

#ATWselfie

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Hablitzia and Digitalis entwined

New Year Hablitzia

This old man’s beard has gone to seed…..

Sowing a Vermontian woodland

Norwegian article from a local Ostrich Fern forage

Interview in Malvikbladet

BBCRadio Solent

World Record Salad Invite

8 years later…

The book is now shipping…and at a special price from Permanent Publications!

A little salad recipe :)

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

Fruit (70)

Autumn berries and fruit

More fruit and berry leather

July berries

Worcesterberries and Cellary

Daniil and the Apples

Waxwings on apples

Physalis “Indian Strain” at 13

Nanking cherry harvest

Dried fruit salad

Quince in full flower

Last berries and pollinators

Apple Harvest

Kiwi blossom in Malvik

From one a day to over 20!

Nervous blackcap on apple

Cornelian Cherries and Polish Olives in Trondheim

The last blackberries

The return of the waxwings

Thrush invasion

The Last Garden

Sweet chestnuts and the lower part of the Forest Garden

Mulberry flowering

Bulfinch visit at Apple blossom time

Wisley’s National Rhubarb collection in 2009

Yellow Yews in Dublin

Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin

The Silk Oak: Quercus mongolica

Waxwings on apples

This onion is also a fruit!

Cactus pads for my last lunch in Mértola

Blackcap on apples

Glut of Courgettes

Visiting McMillion’s acres!

Forage in Malvikmarka

Leather

KVANN at Njøs

Papaws – Asimina triloba – in Norway?

Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling

Raspberry Bilberry Leather

Apple blossom

Would you like a cuppa?

The Hampshire Walled Vineyard

Extreme winter record salad

A nice pair of Boothby’s Blonde Cucumber

Celebrating chili diversity at Chelsea

First load of wood dried apples

My first fig..

Apple Harvest 2016

Autumn in my forest garden

Waxing crescent moonglow salad

Perennialen II: Alvastien Telste

Prune plum harvest

Sour cherry harvest!!

Lars Westergaard’s legendary Danish nursery!

Homegrown watermelon berries

Olive climbing Hablitzia

Knud Poulsen’s gardens

Drying berries

Edimental apples

Bonus Day 4 Permaveggies grafting course

Physalis “Indian Strain”?

Chaenomeles cathayensis

Balcony view

Akebia / Chocolate Vine

Fungi (46)

The Big Fungi Haul

Havesting frozen winter chantarelles

Wild Enoki, Oca and Hablitzia scrambled eggs

Forest bounty

Porcini in abundance

Nut disco: new species for Malvik kommune

Standing room only!

Second Winter Chantarelle Haul

Laying down winter chanterelle supplies

Runner Bean harvest

Fungal abundance

Himalayan Balsam and Albatrellus ovinus pizza

Winter chantarelles / Traktkantareller

Walk and forage to Tripynten

That Chantarelle Moment

Foraging Alpine Bistort Bulbils

St. George’s Mushroom: a new edible for The Edible Garden!

Enokitake=Velvet Shank=Vintersopp

Sopptur 16th November

Fungi at Gevingåsen

Winter chantarelle picking

The tastiest time of year?

Another afternoon in the forest!

Fungal bonanza by bike and job creation

Forage in Malvikmarka

Mushrooms for dinner!

Forbord to Malvik bike push!

Malvik walk

Productive morning in the woods

Phallus

Bike ride to the shops at Sveberg

Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry

Fungi tour from Fjølstadtrøa

Long cycle forage to the shops

Fungi 26th August 2016

Mushrooming 20th August 2016

End of July fungi foray

Strawberries and cream

Cycle home forage!

Soba with stir-fried Golpared veggies

Xmas fresh fungi!

Ink caps / Blekksopp coming into season

Garden maintenance (2)

Digging December

NEW PATH AND A VIDEO OF THE POND

Garden tour (127)

Hagevandring (5)

Around the garden in 40 plants

Garden tours in Økouka

Mine Økouka Trøndelag arrangementer 2024

Nytt fra KVANNs hager og samlinger hos Væres Venner i Trondheim

Hagevandring med Malvik Hagelag

Seed Saving (1)

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025

Video tour of my 3 gardens from June 2024

Plant list for The World Garden

Edible Gothenburg

Around the garden in 40 plants

Garden tours in Økouka

Edible Plants at RHS Wisley Gardens; June 2013

PEAK PERENNIAL VEG TIME AT RHS WISLEY

The Onion Garden Chicago on 3rd July 2024

Hagevandring med Malvik Hagelag

Edibles at RHS Wisley

The 2023 Permaveggies / Forest Gardening course

Organic week in Trøndelag / Økouka i Trøndelag

Visit from the National Museum and Credo

Fact-finding mission: promoting perennial vegetables

God Save the King’s Hostas!

Garden visits with Fosen students

The wildest garden

Carmen Porter and Hemmingford

Mountain Gardens tour with Joe Hollis

Visitors from Ohio

A visit from Oslo and Kirkenes

The Allium garden at Ringve

A tour of the lower parts

In the gardens at the Gothenburg Botanics in January

Edibles in the January Bulb Garden at the Gothenburg Botanics

A weekend in paradise: arrival and the Celo Inn

With Joe Hollis in Paradise!

KVANNs Åpne Hager / Norwegian Seed Savers Open Gardens

BINGN Student Visit to the Edible Garden

Visit from Austrian Hobbits!

The Edible Garden Land Centre Opening

Tante Grusom and Edvin “Fallskjerm” Trygg visit

Valbjør Gård and Nordigard Aukrust!

Beredskapshagen (Preparedness Garden) i Valdres

2019 Fosen visit

Edibles in Dunedin Botanics

Wisley Gardens March 2019

Kim Tyner’s wonderful “permaculture” garden in Wicklow!

Wendy Nairn’s for lunch!

Visit to the Kilmacurragh Botanical Garden in 2018

Other edible plants in the Dublin Botanical Gardens in 2011

Medimental border in Dublin 2011

Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin

The Vegetable Garden at the National Botanic Garden in Dublin in 2011

Derek Halpin’s garden in Roundwood

A Cool Windy Planet Experience at Powerscourt

Jorge’s edible water garden

Freixo de Cima

Edible plants in the Orto Botanico Padua

Carraig Dulra permaculture farm

The Teeny Weeny Farm

Climate Festival garden tour 2018

Visiting McMillion’s acres!

Ringebu Prestegård

30 years in Norway salad

Parkens Grøde

KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; tour of the Edible Garden

Sunny Savage in Malvik

Mount Stewart

PROGRAMMET FOR KVANN-TREFFET I TRONDHEIM

Giardini Botanici Villa Taranto

Lake Maggiore and Giardini Botanici dell’Isola Madre

Dutch visitors

Edibles in Bergen’s Muséhagen

Oslo Botanical Garden, Tøyen, spring edibles

Permaveggies course on Hvaler

With Mountain Gardener Joe Hollis in the Zurich Botanical Gardens

Balestrand and the journey to Sogn

Extreme Salad Man is a Guest of BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party!!

Extreme Salad Man Videos

The complete indexed Extreme Salad Man videos

The VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver BC

Mostly Edibles in the UBC Botanical Garden, Vancouver

Indigenous plant walk in Victoria BC

Jondal, the Hardanger Academy and the Nordic Permaculture Festival 2018

Baroniet Rosendal

Governor’s House Garden in Victoria BC

Edibles in the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria BC

Walk and talk at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific

Annual meeting of Norwegian Permaculture Association in Trondheim

Having permafun in Porsgrunn

Edibles at the Gothenberg Botanical Garden

Walk with Bosse in the Gothenberg Botanics

Royal Botanic Garden Edible Garden Award

Talk at the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens

Valdres

Permakultur samling Oikos Nord Trøndelag

Planter i Hurdal prestegårdshagen

Knut Langeland was here!

Kerstin’s polyculture gardens!

Utrecht Edimentals

City farm and Wolfgang Palme

Salzburg and the end of the Tour d’Austria

Arche Noah’s Show Gardens

Tour d’Edimentals HQ

The Edible Garden on 9th July 2009

Alton

Edimental spotting in the Oxford Botanical Garden

The Hampshire Walled Vineyard

Kamouraska and La société des plantes

Article about my visit to Sogn Jord- og Hagebruksskule

Visit from Stjärnsund

Fosen Folkehøgskole winter visit to the Edible Garden

A visit to Riverton in March 2015!

Earth Ways and Ludwig Appeltans

Unusual edibles at Chelsea Physic Garden

Norrland visits Norrland Onion

Geir Flatabø’s forest garden: Torblålia, Ulvik, Hordaland

Løksafari til Lofoten / Onion safari to the Lofoten Islands

Edimentals talk at the Royal Botanical Gardens

Edimentals in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanical Gardens

Milde garden tour 10th September 2016

Weekend garden pictures 3rd – 4th September 2016

Climate Festival garden tours!

Edinburgh guided edimentals walk

Norway/ Chile / Sweden visit

Hegra bygdekvinnelag garden visit

Day 1 of Naturplanteskolen’s Malvik visit

Naturplanteskolen at Ringve Botanical Garden

Daina and Martina

Ringve Edimentals tours : more pictures

Visiting the Koster Islands

Climate Festival Garden tours…

Edible garden tour at the Tromsø arctic-alpine botanic garden

Garden views (13)

Hundreds of thousands of flower buds

Alys meets the Modern Monk in the Edible Garden

A visit from Oslo and Kirkenes

A tour of the lower parts

2019 Fosen visit

Dagmar and the Destroyed Greenhouse!

KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; tour of the Edible Garden

Blinding light!

Walled garden

Old snow in the garden

Garden and views 30th-31st January 2016

Moonbow and other midnight pictures from the garden

Midnight view of the fjord, Malvikodden and Stjørdal

garlic bulbils (3)

Early emerging garlic

Bonus Day 4 Permaveggies grafting course

grain (7)

Henry’s Quinoa Harvest

Mountaineer Perennial Rye

Around the Year with Quinoa in Malvik

Ivar B. Løne and Mylna

Jicama-ahipa à la Henry quinoa

The svedjerug story

Cleaning quinoa seed

Greenhouse (1)

Constructing the Greenhouse in Summer 1997!

Halophytes (4)

Mostly edibles at Magoito

Alton

The perennial self-fertilising vegetable gardens of Langeland

Norwegian articles on edible halophytes and biosaline agriculture

Harvest (7)

Waxwings on apples

Harvesting winter vegetables before the freeze

Apple Harvest

Harvest moon rise and the combine

Henry’s Quinoa Harvest

Harvest (almost) complete

Artikler om grønnsaksarven fra Hagetidend

On the World’s Vanishing Vegetables

Kvann foredrag i Trondheim

Kvannsafari to Olde in Bordalen

Herbarium (1)

Opening of the new Trondheim Herbarium TRH

Herbs (24)

Red shiso

Lemon balm rescue

Sonchus and Basil Pesto

On the Guadiana River

Accidental companions

THE 2002 RINGVE RENAISSANCE MEGASALAD

Epazote

Rhodiola research in Norway

Can Greek Mountain Tea be effective against Alzheimers?

Cresting on Sweet Aztec Herb!

In search of the purple caraway

Diversity of Nordic horseradish

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

SRGC seed has arrived

The Live in London tapes

The many uses of Udo

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Greek Mountain Tea / Sideritis syriaca

A little salad recipe :)

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

House plants (13)

Physalis “Indian Strain” at 13

Red shiso

Devil’s claw as an edible house plant

Taro harvest

Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant

Kurrajong: a house tree with edible roots!

Harvest (almost) complete

Edimental Begonia

Tarua

Horseradish Tree

Jicama-ahipa à la Henry quinoa

Taro: an excellent edimental house plant

Daina discovers secret life of coffee

Hoverfly (2)

Early Autumn Pollinators

Pellucid Fly

Insects (25)

A Blessing in Disguise

Insect Biodiversity in The Edible Garden

Poplar Hawk Moth / Ospesvermer

Early spring moths and sallow

Emerging sallow catkins and biodiversity on the rise in the garden

Cuckoo wasp in the garden!

Bee beetle

Winter Dancing Flies

Long hoverfly action in the garden

Red-tailed bumblebee: new species for the garden

Bee beetle on the first Sanguisorba flower

Check your nettles!

Early Autumn Pollinators

Pellucid Fly

Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds

Diamondbacks are back :(

First Butterfly

Dancing winter gnats

Insects on Hemp Agrimony

Fly on Codonopsis

Mourning Cloak on Fuki

Weekend garden pictures 3rd – 4th September 2016

Poplar hawk-moth

Diamond back moth invasion

Round the world dragonfly in my wheelbarrow!

Interview (8)

Mi-Sauvage

Spring harvest video by Friends of the Earth, Norway

Podcast on Roots and All

Interview on the Solecast

Perennials resistence in Portugal

Portland Podcast

An interview at Holma Forest Garden in Sweden

Article in Pensjonisten

Invasive plants (22)

Some odds and ends this week in Malvik

Himalayan Balsam and Albatrellus ovinus pizza

Around the World with Fuki

Noxious pizza

Incredible “Incredible Wild Edibles” by Sam Thayer

Invasives talk at the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre

Invasive Moonglow Quiche

Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!

Svartelistet søtsak (“blacklisted goodies”) article

Sowing Ground Elder seed

SRGC seed has arrived

The Live in London tapes

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

My way of sharing FUN – write about it!!!

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

#ATWselfie

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

“If you can’t beat them, eat them…”

A little salad recipe :)

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

Extreme winter record salad

Purple-veined variegated perennial Homanics kale!

Wild Japanese Katakuri #1

Himalayan Nettle

Perennial vegetable tempura

Leafy greens for keeping young in mind and heart

Pea and broad bean diversity

Earthnut Pea / Lathyrus tuberosus

Local nature (1)

Malvikodden / Tynesodden

Macrogreens (1)

Macrogreens and the first Dandelion Flowers

Magazine article (7)

Edimentals and Perennial Veg in the RHS The Garden magazine

ARTIKLER OM FLERÅRIGE GRØNNSAKER FRA HAGETIDEND 2021

Fuglevennlige planter

Free temporary access to my book and articles!

Intervju i Gatemagasinet Sorgenfri

Öfgasalatmaðurinn Stephen Barstow

Article in Pensjonisten

Malvik (10)

Full supermoon

Windy day in Malvik

Edimentals in the garden; early August 2017

Narrow moon beam

The Red Sea of Malvik

Sunrise wake-up

Mushrooming 20th August 2016

20 Runner Beans is better than nothing!

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

Mammal (5)

Otters in the water

Elk Hair

Birds in the garden 13th February 2018

Handsome squirrel

Grey red squirrel

Mammals (7)

Hedgehogs in the garden

Otter swim past

Porpoises on the fjord!

Our main predator….

Full moon fjord ice and the otter

Toronto Groundhog

Birds and mammals of BC

Medicinal plants (7)

Chelidonium majus: the double form

Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Mountain Gardens tour with Joe Hollis

Joe Hollis’ pharmacy and library

Epazote

Slender nettle

Can Greek Mountain Tea be effective against Alzheimers?

Meeting (1)

KVANN’s Annual Meeting Weekend: Days 1 and 2

Molluscs (1)

A pulsating snail in the garden!

Moon (56)

Full moon rise over Forbordsfjellet

Moon halo

Harvest moon rise and the combine

Moonrise over Malvik Kirke

This week’s fjord views

Moon rise goods train

Moon rise

Moon-landing

Full moon 13th October 2019

Night returning to Malvik

“New Year” full moonrise fly past!

Moon and sun reflections in the east

3am in Malvik

Nightime views

Moonrise 21st November

Full moon fjord ice and the otter

Almost as bright as midwinter

More “northern” lights

Moonset and first sunrise dance

Moonset and rise in only 7-8 hours

Once in a Blue moon

More moons and views; 30th December 2017

Dancing moonlit waves

Heart Moonbow and Reflection

Full supermoon

WOW!!

The weekend full moon

Bright reflection

Full moon drifting cloud

Full moon a day away

Narrow moon beam

Bright night lights

Moon rolls along horizon before taking off!

Partly obscured by clouds

The moon is still looking SUPER!

Moonrise over snow-covered mountains

Full moon rise over Stjørdal

Another beautiful orange moon rise

Aurora over Malvikodden 13th October 2016

The moon is back!

Waxing crescent moonglow salad

22° moon halo meets the aurora

24th July 2015 views

Moonrise and sunrise

Full moon hanging in a spruce tree in the garden

Lights in the sky!

Mountain Gardening (1)

Beredskapshagen (Preparedness Garden) i Valdres

Music (2)

Doug Clifford eats dandelion

Carmen Porter and Hemmingford

Natural Rubber (1)

The Dandelion Cycle Tyre: Cycling on Dandelions!

Nettles (5)

Soba perennial veg stir-fry

Don’t cut those nettles, share them with wildlife

Admiral on Urtica kiovensis

Check your nettles!

New nettles

Nursery (5)

Perennial Vegetables and Edimentals in Maine

Eco-sense

Around the world in 80 Alliums

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

Naturplanteskolen looking good!

Nut trees (22)

Female hazel

First Chestnut

Monkey puzzle overwinters in Malvik

Mapuche nuts

Sweet Chestnut at 63.4N!

Pinus cembra shedding

A weekend in paradise: arrival and the Celo Inn

Nutcracker juggling with a nut

Walnut harvest

American chestnut at Ringve in Trondheim

Sweet chestnuts and the lower part of the Forest Garden

The Silk Oak: Quercus mongolica

Kurrajong: a house tree with edible roots!

Monkey puzzles in Norway

Monkey Puzzle Safari in Chile

Balestrand and the journey to Sogn

Cembra pine cone dip

The nuthatch and the hazelnut

Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling

Pinenut crackers

Lars Westergaard’s legendary Danish nursery!

Scruffy Siberian Nutcracker

Nutrition (2)

The nutrition of perennial vegetables

Hosta nutrition

Oca (2)

Indoors Oca plantation

Oca and Ulluco safely inside!

oil seed (2)

Red shiso

The Edible Japanese Bluebell!

Onions (122)

Allium dispersal

The Onion Garden Chicago on 3rd July 2024

Snow onions

MAC 69 ONION CHEESE

Grand opening of the Onion Garden

Meanwhile in the Onion Garden Chicago

Habby Chicago Eggs

Twisted-leaf garlic for lunch

Persian Shallot harvest

Some odds and ends this week in Malvik

Snow onions

Harvesting midwinter nodding onions

Chiugok, Small Bird’s Garlic, a hardy Himalayan edimental

Tall Swamp Onion

Allium ulleungense: a new vigorous edimental

Unintentional presents

Still green after the freeze

Keeled garlic, a useful winter Allium and edimental in summer

Red-tailed bumblebee: new species for the garden

Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic

The Allium garden at Ringve

Diamonds on Allium

SO/TR Pizza

Garden wild green soup

A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65

Victory falafels

Earliness and diversity in Victory Onion

Mass Victory Onion Germination

Caraway root breeding and Karvekaalsuppe

Trøndersk geirlauk: tilbake etter 1000 år på Island

Onions in the snow

Japanese victory onion

Slowly Approaching the time of Plenty: Spring!

Pricking out Alliums

Redpoll workers

Atropurpureum and Validum

Sonchus and Basil Pesto

Johannes’ Shallot

Oslo Allium Raid

The Allium garden at Ringve

Allium atrosanguineum is back

Snow bell flowers

February barl-emm-otto

The first garden forage of the year!

Mast-o Mooseer

Om Norrlandsløk / Norrland Onion

Perennial shoots in the snow

SAD = 39 new Alliums

This onion is also a fruit!

Fasciated Allium nutans “Lena”

More planting in the Allium garden

Pink wallichii

The Chicago onion garden at Ringve on 3rd August 2018

Allium “Chacha”

The Chicago onion garden at Ringve on 23rd July 2018

Status of the Granvin victory onion location

Norwegian report on my 2009 Victory Onion safari to North Norway and Granvin!

Accidental companions

The perennial bed onions

The Allium (Chicago) garden at Ringve at the end of June 2018

The Allium garden at Ringve on the last day of May 2018

My new “job” and office: a dream come true!!

New study of old Norwegian roof onions!

Nervous Onions or Magic Wren?

The Roof Onions of Gudbrandsdalen in Norway

THE ALLIUM GARDEN AT RINGVE #3

The Equinox Garlic Dance

The Allium Garden at Ringve #2

Around the world in 80 Alliums

Alliums 28th August 2017

The Allium garden at Ringve

19th August 2017 Alliums

Welsh comet

Recent Alliums in the garden; August 2017

Nodding onion season

Alliums 24th July 2017

Allium bouquet

Alliums in the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens

Scape stir fry

The Utrecht Allium Border

Allium x cornutum

Geirlauk

Naturalised Allium victorialis in Hardanger, Norway

Extreme winter record salad

Persian shallot confusion!

More seed for stratifying

A bunch of nodding edimental onions

Even more onions……

Allium wallichii seed harvest

Lofoten Victory Onions

Løksafari til Lofoten / Onion safari to the Lofoten Islands

A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!

Nepalese feast in Malvik

Allium rosenbachianum, a new edimental from Tajikstan and Uzbekistan

Jimmu

Nepalese meet their onion in Malvik

Sherpa and Swedish Norrland onions

Allium flavescens?

Day 1 of Naturplanteskolen’s Malvik visit

Japanese Victory Onion welcomed me home from Japan

Forced Japanese Chives

Hablitzia and the few-flowered leeks

Extending the perennial veggie season with nodding onion

More after dark snow scenes

Hungry gap sprouts

20 Runner Beans is better than nothing!

Gift onions…

Perennial vegetable tempura

New Alliums

Allium korolokovii

Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus

Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”

Allium victorialis diversity

Tonight’s veggies; 24th June 2015

Tall onions

A 230 onion pesto :)

Persian shallot seedlings!

Onion in escape attempt drama

Organic gardening (4)

Visit from SJH

Wendy Nairn’s for lunch!

On the World’s Vanishing Vegetables

Stussvik and Vidar Rune Synnevåg

Ornamentals (6)

Hablitzia tamnoides in Oslo

Meconopsis punicea

Allium victorialis diversity

A 230 onion pesto :)

Diversity of Nordic horseradish

14th March spring flowers

Oxalis tuberosa (1)

Tubers and roots; December 2020

Parasitic (2)

A pulsating snail in the garden!

Misteltoe on Sorbus

Perennial vegetable shoots (47)

68th Birthday Mac-Cheese with 68 shoots of 4 species

Hablitzia Pinaattiohukaiset

Wietse’s Onion Soup with Udos, Hosta, Ostrich Ferns, Sea Kale and Ramsons

Spring wouldn’t be spring without Hablitzia

Record warmth and record early shoots

Habby pizza time with Urui shoots

First Garden Forage of 2021

Japanese Sansai in March

Garden produce 6th April 2020

An alternative spring harvest

An Aristocratic Vegetable

19th March Veggies

Japanese victory onion

Self-produce from the garden

Catch of the day!

Winter Tradescantia shoots

Dennis’ veggies

Sprouts in the cellar

The winter’s first salad shoot salad

Hablitzia anti-grazing strategy

Snow harvest

Falafels and cellar veggie wholegrain pizza!

February barl-emm-otto

Winter quiche

Perennial shoots in the snow

H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad

The last roots

Hosta icicles (yuki urui)

American Spikenard salad

Udo salad

permakulturplanter.no visit!

Perennial veg pakora

Oslo Botanical Garden, Tøyen, spring edibles

Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!

Noxious pizza

Wild “Asparagus” for the king and queen’s 80th birthdays?

Skirret harvest 2017

Extreme winter record salad

Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1

Purple-veined variegated perennial Homanics kale!

Pepper-root

Nutritional analysis of Hablitzia

Udo farm visit in Tokyo

Homegrown watermelon berries

Korean Aster on Edimentals

Hablitzia in snow

Hablitzia and the few-flowered leeks

Perennial vegetables (293)

Scrambled greens

Little Garden Fish: A New Unexpected Edimental

Toad lilies: great edientomentals

The first Udo photo shoot for 2024

Dandelions in pink, white and yellow

Hosta and Seri salad

Soba perennial veg stir-fry

Snow onion salad

A video tour of the World Garden

The Full Gap

Hablitzia beginnings

Daniil and the duck potatoes

Meanwhile in the Onion Garden Chicago

Hablitzia, Laportea and Nettle Gnocchi

Rampions for the hungry gap

Artist in Residence Elin Eriksen

Garden foraged perennial veggies: 28th June 2023

This year’s udo picture!

Turkish brockets

Mountain cultivation of Udo in Nagano

Fact-finding mission: promoting perennial vegetables

God Save the King’s Hostas!

Hablitzia under Norway Spruce

Walking’s not healthy for Habbies

Garden visits with Fosen students

Megacarpaea delavayi

Fairchild’s Experiments with Udo from 1914!

Udo introduction to the US with cultivation instructions (1903)

Wild Enoki, Oca and Hablitzia scrambled eggs

Seven Vegetable Dishes

Geeking out with Dandelions

Grape leaves

Flowering Aster scaber

Sochan tops Mediterranean style

Persian Shallot harvest

42 Pakora veggies

St. George’s, ramsons and red-leaved dandelion pasta with Hosta icicles

Bitter baccalao: roots and greens

Some odds and ends this week in Malvik

Around the World in 80 Mac-Cheese

Record warmth and record early shoots

Myoga shoots and propagation

Extreme 66 ingredient November Salad

Unusual October veg

Large forms of Alpine Bistort

Dystaenia heaven

The 2021 Selfies with a 20-year old Udo

Chiugok, Small Bird’s Garlic, a hardy Himalayan edimental

Early July Veg

Early June Greens and Whites

Tonight’s pizza greens

Fasciated dandelion- udo- sea kale salad

Today’s permaveggies

Perennial Baccalao with victory onions

Habby Mac-Cheese 2021

Unintentional presents

Does udo resprout

Perennial veggie saag and stuffed blue congo paratha

Habby pea soup

Dissected dandelion bud

Hail Hablitzia

Forced March Perennial Greens

Macrogreens and the first Dandelion Flowers

Cold Man’s Beard

First seed saved for 2021

Last or First?

Perennial puha, Sonchus kirkii in Malvik #2

Scorzonera harvest

Mountain Gardens tour with Joe Hollis

Nettle-leaved bellflower

A Taste of Myoga

Pond Bed North Upgrade

Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic

Mother and daughter habby

Ornithogalum pyramidale

Flowering waterleafs

Hostas, scapes and broccolis

Sustainable kales

Norwegian quinoa and swamp greens medley

SO/TR Pizza

Hablitzia: from seed to flowering in 4 months

Hablitzia as a weed!

Veggie rich pie

Garden wild green soup

Japanese white dandelion

Korean tempura and dipping sauce for perennial vegetables

Cherokee Pizza

Floppy Habby

A tour of the lower parts

Green Ostrich Pasta

No problem, we’re perennials!

JA Quiche

Hablitzia picture gallery

A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65

Wild domesticated edibles and 65 habby days

Pizza greens 1st May 2020

Habby-Dandy MacCheese

Today’s perennial catch

Victory falafels

Earliness and diversity in Victory Onion

Forest garden companions

Mass Victory Onion Germination

The paradoxical habby pesto

The mossy dandelion

Naturalised Giant Bellflower

Dandies, habbies, sand leeks, sorrel and sweet cicely

Taro harvest

Onions in the snow

Habby in the snow

Spring harvest video by Friends of the Earth, Norway

27th March Veggies from the garden

25th March Veggies

Giant Ulleung Celery

More from the garden

Slowly Approaching the time of Plenty: Spring!

Announcing the 4th Permaveggies course in the Edible Garden

Perennial vegetables webinar on Youtube

Perennial Myrrhis Sprouts

Norwegian Seed Savers establish a guild for Perennial and Forest Gardening vegetables

Preparing dandelions for forcing

Dried Aster Scaber

Parasenecio hastatus

Perennial Vegetables and Edimentals in Maine

With Joe Hollis in Paradise!

Pizza Hemerocallis

Floriferous Hablitzia

Hablitzia accession overview 2019

Edimental of the Day is Malva alcea

Foraging the Viviparous Bistort

Variegated Habby on Nesodden

Swamp saxifrage salad

Dried ostrich ferns

Perennial pakoras

Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds

Diamondbacks in their thousands

Diamondbacks are back :(

East meets west salad

Bellflower-chokes / Storklokkeskokker

Appalachian Greens

Forsøk med flerårige grønnsaker i fjellet

Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre

Hail and Kale salad!

Spring beauty time in the garden!

9th April veggies

Hablitzia tour

More blanched dandelions

Dandelonion bhajis

Wisley’s National Rhubarb collection in 2009

A visit to a Wasabi farm on the Izu peninsular in Japan

February barl-emm-otto

The first garden forage of the year!

Om Scorzonera: en hardfør helårs grønnsak

The perennial Rampions: shade tolerant edientomentals!

Stolt Henrik: Blad og brokkoli grønnsak, flerårig kornplante og godteri i en og samme plante

Perennial kale snow blanket

Gamle Norske Humle

Visit to Bioforsk Landvik in 2012

Perennials resistence in Portugal

The last roots

Dandelion harvest

The Holy Grail Kale and the Janas Ecovillage gardens!

Cactus pads for my last lunch in Mértola

Das Essgarten-Kochbuch: Überraschende Rezepte mit Funkie, Magnolie und Co.

Visiting McMillion’s acres!

Crazy about Udo

Earthquake proof Crambe!

Old Growth Hablitzia today!

Hosta nutrition

Variegated Hablitzia on Nesodden

Sweet and sour stir-fry ingredients

Ragged Jack kale and Siberian onion sourdough pizza

Sea kale broccoli end of May salad

Late May flowers in the Edible Garden

Udo salad

The dandy that’s pink

Belated happy birthday to me

Happy Habby Pizza

Early May in Malvik

permakulturplanter.no visit!

Around the World with Fuki

Tsukushi

Oslo Botanical Garden, Tøyen, spring edibles

New Norwegian Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia with Hablitzia and Hosta

Mass Hablitzia germination

Spring Ryotto

In its 18th year

The Potential of Perennials for Food System Resilience Symposium

Hardy Habby

Hector and the Disobedient Gardener!

Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!

RIP The King of the Dandelions, Dandelion Dude Peter Gail

Inundated with perennial seed!

Surroundings around the site of the 2018 Nordic Permaculture Festival

Wild “Asparagus” for the king and queen’s 80th birthdays?

Jan Lein, northernmost Asparagus pioneer

Skirret harvest 2017

Eco-sense

Kvann foredrag i Trondheim

EdimAsters

I love my Habbies

Crambe cordifolia sale

The annual Udo collapse

Having permafun in Porsgrunn

Slender nettle

Perennial puha, Sonchus kirkii in Malvik

A 2012 visit to the Århus CSA near Skien, Norway

Walk with Bosse in the Gothenberg Botanics

Around the world in 80 Alliums

Talk in the Gothenburg botanical gardens

Recent Alliums in the garden; August 2017

Extreme salad film

Eirik’s Udo

Grow UP city salad

Kvannsafari to Olde in Bordalen

Hablitzia forest garden

Edimentals in the garden; early August 2017

Dividing 1-year old Hablitzia plants

Scorzonera in full flower

La Ferme des Quatre Temps

Kerstin’s polyculture gardens!

Mallow Sorrel Fish Soup

Today’s greens

Food abundance in the Utrecht Botanical Garden

Udo Giant!

Vert de Montmagny Ameliore

Hosta Superstar and Host in Vienna

Monster ground elder

Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche

Geirlauk

Extreme May salad

In the forest garden on 16th May 2017

Old growth Hablitzia status 4th May 2017!

Tradescantia ohiensis

2nd May Abundance

Prestigious prize to Ronny Staquet for his work with Hablitzia!

My oldest Hablitzia, already vigorous in 2004!

Naturalised Allium victorialis in Hardanger, Norway

Forced blanched Udo Baccalao

Extreme winter record salad

Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1

My 26 February 2017 Hablitzias

Purple-veined variegated perennial Homanics kale!

The perennial self-fertilising vegetable gardens of Langeland

Directions for the culture of sea kale from 1799!

Perennial kales in my loft room

Encounters with Angelica in Japan!

A sour woodland edimental

Wild Japanese Katakuri #1

More seed for stratifying

My first wild Hablitzia accession

Udo roots for forcing

Winter Udo

Nutritional analysis of Hablitzia

Findhorn’s Edible Woodland Garden

Udo farm visit in Tokyo

Underground Udo video

Harvesting before the frost penetrates too deep

Taunton Deane Perennial Kale video

Taking cuttings of perennial kales

Permaculture in Adresseavisen today!

Octobasters

Autumn in my forest garden

The Many Uses of Udo

Edimentals talk at the Royal Botanical Gardens

A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!

Homegrown watermelon berries

Longest dandelion leaf?

“Have you eaten a flower”

Korean Aster on Edimentals

The tallest skirret challenge

Adenophora transforms into invasive bellflower

New Zealand Celery and Porpoise Bay

Plant backlog…

Naturplanteskolen Malvik salad

Soba with stir-fried Golpared veggies

Giant purple throat bellflower

Persian Cornflower

Chiffchaff enjoys diamond backs

Pakora hasn’t met this selection of veggies before!

An interview at Holma Forest Garden in Sweden

Perennials (159)

Indian summer flowers

Early May Edible Flower Bouquet

This year’s midsummer Udo picture!

Perennials resistence in Portugal

Mid-October flowers in the Edible Garden

Cicoria Fantastica!

Perennial thicket bean update

66 today!!

Soba stir-fried cellar vegetables

Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon/Chorogi/Madeira vine tuber harvest

Garden pictures 24th-25th September 2016

The Youngs of Aberdeen

Weekend garden pictures 3rd – 4th September 2016

Weekend garden pictures

Germinating Phaseolus polystachios

Most northerly overwintered edible Gunnera?

Vollinger in Malvik raid

Solstice sweet and sour soup greens

Giant Taunton Deane Perennial Kale

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

A few weekend plants and salads!

16 days later

Hablitzia racing anyone?

Diamond back moth invasion

Fast Slow Edimental Lunch!!

Grennessminde and the fantasy salad beds

Naturplanteskolen looking good!

Visiting Camilla Plum

Pricking on perennial edible seedlings

Sonchus seed

Permaveggies Course Day 3: Ostrich fern tour along the Homla

Skirret shoots

Spring perennial pesto

Malvik Fuki

Perennial veggie quiche 2014

Trachystemon flowering in the cellar

Physalis “Indian Strain”?

Norwegian sansai

Extending the perennial veggie season with nodding onion

The Wild Greens of Korea

Hungry gap sprouts

Bear Spinach comes out of hibernation

Mass Hablitzia germination for Xmas

McMillion in Malvik

The ALE seed shop

Letter from the Prince

Bulbils on my Horseradish?

Autumn spring habby

Stampede=Dayneutral=Dwarf Sunray=Bianca

Balcony view

Gift onions…

Himalayan Nettle

Perennial vegetable tempura

Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015

Japanese woodlanders

Perennials vs. annuals

More edible companions

Giant Perennial Buckwheat and Skirret

Hablitzia seen from the kitchen window after heavy rain

Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus

White clustered bellflower

Giant sow thistle

Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”

My first Korean Aster flower

Hablitzia anno 2001!

Hablitzia overwhelming an olive tree

Tonight’s greens 24th July 2015

Siberian Hogweed en masse

Hablitzia intertwined with Good King Henry

Incredible Vegetables Blog!

Kamikaze Horseradish?

Dent-de-lion

Resonating with asparagus in Oslo…..

Hablitzia tamnoides in Oslo

Hablitzia running rampant

Meconopsis punicea

Allium victorialis diversity

Tonight’s veggies; 24th June 2015

Wine sorrel about to flower

The Horned Dandelion

Tall onions

A 230 onion pesto :)

World record ferment in Malvik

Grand potting on of perennials seedlings

Persian shallot seedlings!

Perennials thrive in a cold spring!

Taraxacum haemanthum

Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!

Akebia / Chocolate Vine

The legendary moss-leaved dandelion today!

Taraxacum leucanthum flowering for the first time

Walled Kitchen Gardens Network talk in October

My hardiest perennial kale

Soup greens

Sorrel “Schavel” * 7

Rita Amundsen on the radio with dandinoodles/løvenudler!

The Perennial Bed

First Ostrich Ferns up…

Incredible Edible Todmorden meets the Extreme Salad Man 25th May 2015

Garden forage 9th April 2015

Diversity of Nordic horseradish

Article in Permakultur magazine

Visit from Kneiken Felleshage

Hablitzia moving indoors

Record Hablitzia harvest

Lovage sprouts

Svartelistet søtsak (“blacklisted goodies”) article

Sowing Ground Elder seed

Russian veggie seed

Perennial kale cuttings!

Permaculture Magazine excerpt from the book!

Blanched perennial cellar kale

Onion in escape attempt drama

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

Fourteen new potential Edimentalliums!!

The author of Around the World in 80 plants is guesting on permies.com this week!

Holma Forest Garden video!

Stratifying seed record frost heave

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

SRGC seed has arrived

The Live in London tapes

The many uses of Udo

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

My way of sharing FUN – write about it!!!

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Garlic bulbil sprouts on the way up

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Salad from the tunnel; 12th January 2015

Riceroot and Hog Peanuts

#ATWselfie

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Xmas in Malvik

Hablitzia and Digitalis entwined

Coffee

White River Junction, Chelsea Green and the Coop

New Year Hablitzia

Oca Harvest

This old man’s beard has gone to seed…..

Sowing a Vermontian woodland

Greek Mountain Tea / Sideritis syriaca

Weed art

Extreme salad man mk. II

“If you can’t beat them, eat them…”

Drying Persian shallots

Norwegian article from a local Ostrich Fern forage

Hampshire’s Watercress Line

Interview in Malvikbladet

BBCRadio Solent

World Record Salad Invite

Alys Fowler in the Edible Garden

8 years later…

Norwegian article on Seakale

The book is now shipping…and at a special price from Permanent Publications!

Holma Forest Garden / Holma skogsträdgård June 2014

Alexandra Berkutenko and the Giant Edimentals of the Russian Far East

A little salad recipe :)

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

An Edimental salad

Permaculture (40)

Video tour of my 3 gardens from June 2024

Perennial Vegetables and Edimentals in Maine

Live in Holyoke!

Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre

Official opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND centre

Kim Tyner’s wonderful “permaculture” garden in Wicklow!

Carraig Dulra permaculture farm

The Teeny Weeny Farm

My Permaculture Design Certificate project report

Annual meeting of Norwegian Permaculture Association in Trondheim

Having permafun in Porsgrunn

Permakultur samling Oikos Nord Trøndelag

Permakultur Grunnkurs /PDC Malvik

La Ferme des Quatre Temps

Hurdal Nordic Permaculture Festival 2013

Earth Ways and Ludwig Appeltans

Craig Gibsone at Findhorn

Permaculture in Adresseavisen today!

Alvastien Telste LAND Centre: the dramatic approach road….

Skomvær 2014

Skomvær Fyr / Lighthouse: 2-4 August 2013

Visiting the Koster Islands

Perennials vs. annuals

Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!

Incredible Edible Todmorden meets the Extreme Salad Man 25th May 2015

Article in Permakultur magazine

Permaculture Magazine excerpt from the book!

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

The author of Around the World in 80 plants is guesting on permies.com this week!

Holma Forest Garden video!

Stratifying seed record frost heave

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

SRGC seed has arrived

The Live in London tapes

The many uses of Udo

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

My way of sharing FUN – write about it!!!

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

Pest control (2)

Leopard slugs out in strength

House sparrow: better late than never

Pesto (3)

Løksafari til Lofoten / Onion safari to the Lofoten Islands

Spring perennial pesto

A 230 onion pesto :)

pests (2)

Diamondbacks are back :(

Diamond back moth invasion

Photography (1)

Hector and the Disobedient Gardener!

Plant Heritage (2)

This year’s Norwegian heritage potatoes

Visit to Bioforsk Landvik in 2012

Plant sale (4)

KVANN at the Ringve Botanical Garden Open Day

Plant sale at the botanical garden in Oslo

Edibles for Anno

Garden plant sale /plantesalg

Podcast (1)

Podcast on Roots and All

Poisonous plants (3)

Best left for the bees!

Giftodden

Deadly flowers

Pollinators (25)

Orange tip and seed saving

Chiffchaff and Willow

Two spring signs

Old Man’s Beard

Flowering Aster scaber

Buddleja davidii

Sweet Gigas stalks

Cuckoo wasp in the garden!

Burdock for goldfinches

Admirals on Monarda

Painted lady on teasle

Dystaenia heaven

Temnostoma vespiforme

No shortage of bumblebees

Bee beetle

First seed saved for 2021

Keeled garlic, a useful winter Allium and edimental in summer

Last berries and pollinators

Buddleja Butterflies

Unusual Pollinators

Bee beetle on the first Sanguisorba flower

Bumble bee in snow

Early Autumn Pollinators

Crazy about Udo

KVANN’s garden at Væres Venner

Polyculture (2)

Extreme salad film

Kerstin’s polyculture gardens!

Sarpo Tominia: the 17th harvest

This year’s Norwegian heritage potatoes

Broad beans, falafels, new potatoes and golpar

Potato harvest at Væres Venner

Potato diversity in Malvik; 11th September 2011

Sarpo Tominia 2016

Potato diversity

Propagation (5)

Myoga shoots and propagation

Dividing 1-year old Hablitzia plants

Grand potting on of perennials seedlings

Persian shallot seedlings!

Perennial kale cuttings!

Publication (1)

Mi-Sauvage

Pulses (6)

50 Garden Pea Varieties

Runner Bean Falafels

Northern Runner Bean Grex

Broad Bean Land Race

Red Cheeks and Fingerprints

Did the Carlin Pea originate in Norway?

Radio/TV (1)

Edibles for Anno

Regenerative culture (1)

Findhorn’s Edible Woodland Garden

Report (1)

PROMOTING PERENNIAL VEGETABLES IN THE SWEDISH FOOD SUPPLY

Root hairs and burdock

Rampions for the hungry gap

Xmas diversity from the rhizosphere

Oca harvest 2022

“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad

Burdock harvest

Sweet cicely / chicory root scrambled egg

20 seasons with Sarpo potatoes

Bitter baccalao: roots and greens

Xmas day Rhizofantastigora dinner 2021

Root Chicory Trials 2021 at Være

A real Oca yield outside at 63.4N

Last or First?

Tubers and roots; December 2020

Malvik Jerusalem Artichokes

Horseradish harvest

Jerusalem Artichoke Harvest at Væres Venner

Scorzonera harvest

Nettle-leaved bellflower

Edimental Cacomitl Flowering Time

Hopniss at 63.4N

Rice lily

JA Quiche

Caraway root breeding and Karvekaalsuppe

Taro harvest

Mauka in Malvik, Bergen and Belgium

Parsnip men!

The winter’s first salad shoot salad

Yacon and sunchoke harvest

Grated Turkish Rocket

My biggest parsnip?

Habeetsia burgers

Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant

Spring beauty time in the garden!

A visit to a Wasabi farm on the Izu peninsular in Japan

Om Scorzonera: en hardfør helårs grønnsak

The perennial Rampions: shade tolerant edientomentals!

Long Horseradish root

The last roots

Scareit harvest

Queen Anne’s Thistle tubers

Balloon flower

Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!

Pursuing the Giant Root Chervil

The many faces of burdock

Burdock in Japanese Supermarkets

Centretown United Church and Ottawa snowchokes

Extreme winter record salad

Jicama-ahipa à la Henry quinoa

Supermarket Tiger Nuts

Soba stir-fried cellar vegetables

Yam daisy aboriginal tuber cultivation

Rice lily

Forcing Andean root crops for winter greens

..and end of the year Yacon harvest

End of the year Andes in Malvik tuber harvest

Harvesting thistle root!

Late or early?

Wild Japanese Katakuri #1

Skirret-chufa stir-fry

Pepper-root

Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon/Chorogi/Madeira vine tuber harvest

Greater pignut

Planting Garlic

My first Yacon flower after 10 years of trying!

Indoors Oca plantation

3 Basellaceae for Xmas dinner

Oca and Ulluco safely inside!

A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!

The tallest skirret challenge

Adenophora transforms into invasive bellflower

The Lotus effect on taro leaves

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

Skirret shoots

Edible rooted chicory

Harvesting the fartichokes

Potato diversity

Bulbils on my Horseradish?

Stampede=Dayneutral=Dwarf Sunray=Bianca

Earthnut Pea / Lathyrus tuberosus

Giant Perennial Buckwheat and Skirret

Diversity of Nordic horseradish

Svartelistet søtsak (“blacklisted goodies”) article

The many uses of Udo

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Salad from the tunnel; 12th January 2015

Riceroot and Hog Peanuts

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Xmas in Malvik

Oca Harvest

A little salad recipe :)

Salad (110)

The year’s first salad photo shoot!

February Hosta-Udo salad

Mid-January Salad

23rd December H for Hablitzia salad

World Garden November Salad

78th Birthday Party Salad

EXTREME SALAD MAN MAKES CONVENTIONAL SALAD!

A conventional salad!

Lunchtime 2nd May Salad

Gunnera-Chinese Yam salad

October Salad

50 and 20 year celebrations

A diversity of rat’s tails

Unpacking the Edimentals Herbarium

February salad

Start of the 2023 Dandelion season

“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad

Salad for HGB and HvB

Winter salad record: 5 years after

The first 2022 outside salad

20 years of Extreme Salads

Celebration 40 genera salad

May 2021 Extreme Salad

Extreme salad man strikes again

The year’s first extreme salad

Buzz Buttons

The winter’s first salad shoot salad

Rapini salad for Andrew

Hazel’s salad

BINGN Student Visit to the Edible Garden

The Edible Garden Land Centre Opening

15th August Salad

Saskatoons and salad

Salad for Jolien

The extreme salad collection

Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre

Hail and Kale salad!

H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad

The Ecoaldeias Janas extreme salad

October salad

The tastiest time of year?

15 year record salad ingredients

7th August multisalad

Half my age party!

KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; tour of the Edible Garden

Sunny Savage in Malvik

Sea kale broccoli end of May salad

Bygdø Kongsgårds Mangfoldsalat

Enhanced udo salad

American Spikenard salad

Udo salad

Happy Habby Pizza

Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!

Une salade avec 537 différentes plantes

The Last PDC salad

Trondheim Food Festival Renaissance Salad

THE 2002 RINGVE RENAISSANCE MEGASALAD

Annual meeting of Norwegian Permaculture Association in Trondheim

158 ingredient salad list

The last PDC #2 Supper

Extreme salad film

Grow UP city salad

Filmed extreme salad!

Advances in Edimental Salads

Having salad fun in Hurdal

Training my granddaughter

Not salad again…

58 Salad

Extreme May salad

Incredible Edible Jevnaker

Extreme salad report in Canadian Gardening

The March 2017 Extreme Salads: Ingredients and preparation!

Extreme winter record salad

The Credo / Kosmorama extreme salad

80 a day keeps the doctor away

1st January fantasy salad in Malvik!

Salad wall

Winter sowing

Sonchus “Custard in Greens”

End of October salad

Terje Visnes’ salad photo on show!

Adresseavisen salad photo shoot…

Lunchtime office cress

Extreme salad boy!

Danish masterclass mega-salad ingredients

Joke plants

Wedding salad

The Extreme Salad Man at 15!

Day 1 of Naturplanteskolen’s Malvik visit

Naturplanteskolen Malvik salad

Daina and Martina

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

A few weekend plants and salads!

Grennessminde and the fantasy salad beds

Visiting Camilla Plum

Permaveggies course 2016 Day 2

61 at 61

A Fantastic February Salad

Wine sorrel about to flower

World record ferment in Malvik

The legendary moss-leaved dandelion today!

Sorrel “Schavel” * 7

Rita Amundsen on the radio with dandinoodles/løvenudler!

Incredible Edible Todmorden meets the Extreme Salad Man 25th May 2015

Blanched perennial cellar kale

Article in Adresseavisen (Trondheim’s newspaper); 28th June 2014

Seaweed (8)

IKEA Seaweed Bags!!

Maximum fertility

New Zealand Celery and Porpoise Bay

Day 1 of Naturplanteskolen’s Malvik visit

Permaveggies course 2016 Day 2

Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!

Garden fertility and minerals!

Fertility piling up on the beach today!

Seed (73)

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025

Encouraging dandelions

Freedom for Palestine

Rare perennial veg seed on offer in Chandlers Ford

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2022-2023

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2021-2022

Seed Saving

Joe Hollis’ pharmacy and library

Nice hairdo!

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2019-2020

The last seed?

Snow covered with storm blown debris and seed

Wild buckwheat sprouts

Siskins dining on the roof

Curious double New Zealand Spinach seeds

Coltsfoot migration

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2018-2019

Winter seed sowing and recording

Perennial vegetable seed sowing season

Seed fall

Stratifying cold frame

Seed from Korea

Earth hour

Inundated with perennial seed!

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2017-2018

On the World’s Vanishing Vegetables

2017 seed saving

Low flying helicopters

Current offers in Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN) autumn seed and vegetable catalogue

Saving seed from edible plants

Siskins and birch

Seed library in Malvik!

Misoni’s seeds

Kamouraska and La société des plantes

More seed stratifying in the garden..

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2016-2017

Seed excitement in Malvik

Seed sorting

Cleaning quinoa seed

Scottish Rock Garden Cub seed catalogue no. 70!!

The Edible Japanese Bluebell!

Packing and sorting seed

Even more onions……

Stavanger and around

Arctic ethnobotanical seed wanted

Allium wallichii seed harvest

Seed of edibles from Japan

PLANTEKLUBBENS HØSTKATALOG 2016 (NORWEGIAN SEED SAVERS AUTUMN CATALOGUE)

Harvesting golpar

Greenfinch on Jack-go-to-bed-by-noon seed heads!

Pricking on perennial edible seedlings

Experimental Farm Network

The mad salad man sorting seed in Malvik!

Goldfinches on chicory

Chaenomeles cathayensis

In the postbox…..14th February 2015

In the post box….12th February 2015

Fourteen new potential Edimentalliums!!

SRGC seed has arrived

The Live in London tapes

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Garlic bulbil sprouts on the way up

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

Seed pods (1)

A diversity of rat’s tails

Seed sAVING (11)

Seed saving talk weekend

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2023-2024

Black mustard seed

Seed sorting for KVANN members

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2021-2022

Start of the seed saving season

Marie Gaden RIP

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2020-2021

Self-sufficient in Cress

Broad Bean Mix

Parsnip moth

Seed sowing (3)

Wagtail at the North Pole

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED TRADE LIST FOR 2019-2020

The last seed?

Seed sprouts (5)

Self-sufficient in Cress

Perennial Myrrhis Sprouts

Cut and come again peas

Extreme winter record salad

Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1

Seedlings (1)

Udo seedlings

Self Sufficiency (1)

THE NEW EDIMENTALS SEED LIST FOR 2024-2025

Seminar (3)

Promoting Perennial Vegetables seminar

Seminar on Community Seed Banks in Oslo

The Potential of Perennials for Food System Resilience Symposium

Shrub (16)

Kiwi blossom in Malvik

First leafing again

Red is the rose

Sansho in the cellar

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

Holma Forest Garden video!

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

SRGC seed has arrived

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

#ATWselfie

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

Coffee

World Record Salad Invite

A little salad recipe :)

Leopard slugs out in strength

Leopard slugs in love…

Slimax maximus

Snow (44)

Snow, snow and more snow

Hundreds of thousands of flower buds

Fjord views 31st January

More of the white stuff

No problem, we’re perennials!

Heavy snow and mother of pearls

Ever-changing view

Hoodies and pussy willows

The Hanging Edible Garden

Fieldfares in snow

Perennial kale snow blanket

Snow scenes

January storm

First snow on the hills

Snow at dawn

Hawfinch hoping for a green Xmas

Extreme winter record salad

Cross-country ski 12th March

Old snow in the garden

The bay was on fire this morning

Ski trip at Hønstad 14th February 2016

More after dark snow scenes

Snow clearing on 20th January 2015

Sowing (3)

Pricking out Alliums

Winter seed sowing and recording

Earth hour

Spice (8)

Black onion seed in Malvik

Golpar ready to use

Broad beans, falafels, new potatoes and golpar

Epazote

Harvesting golpar

Soba with stir-fried Golpared veggies

Sansho in the cellar

Homegrown Golpar

Spiders (3)

Beautiful garden spider

Invasion of spiders?

Pumpkin spider / Korsedderkopp

Spirituality (1)

Craig Gibsone at Findhorn

Spring (7)

Early spring moths and sallow

Hablitzia beginnings

Suddenly it’s spring

3 swallows don’t make it summer

Spring harvest video by Friends of the Earth, Norway

Back home to abundance!

First spring leaves

Sprouts (8)

January vegetables from cellar and window sills

Back home to abundance!

Extreme winter record salad

Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1

Chicoriche

Hungry gap sprouts

Lovage sprouts

Wild buckwheat sprouts

Stand (3)

RINGVE OPEN DAY 2024

KVANN at the Ringve Botanical Garden Open Day

Neil Young’s Global Ecovillage and Stavern

stratifying seed (4)

Winter seed sowing and recording

Stratifying cold frame

More seed stratifying in the garden..

Winter sowing

Study visit (1)

Besøk fra (visit from) Arche Noah

Sun (99)

Yearbreak? Break of Year? Crack of Year?

View towards Hell

Actual sunyear rise today

The sun is back

Red sky rainbow

I’ll never tire of that view!

Basking again

One of the last sunrises

Fiery skies over a place called Hell

Autumn on the way

This week’s fjord views

Forbordsfjellet sunrise day

This evening’s entertainment

Dawn chorus of one: 23rd March 2020

Mist and sunrise

Skyscapes

Dawn and dusk

Dawsk 13th November 2019

Dawn over the Bay

Home again

Bay view 11th September

Beautiful Red Skies

Waking at sunrise

Double wave reflections at 11pm sunset

Reflections from Stjørdal

Early Rise in Early April

Sunrise over the point today!

Sunrise and the 9:03 from Hommelvik to Trondheim

Northern rainbow

Eclipse dawn

Snow scenes

The first morning of 2019

Moon and sun reflections in the east

Jackdaw acrobatics

September sunrise

Sunrise 27th August 2018

Pstereo rainbow

Morning beams

Bi-coloured fjord

Whirligig light show in Skatval

Early morning 18th June 2018

Dawn on 20th May 2018

Sun in the east both late and early

Back home!

More “northern” lights

Moonset and first sunrise dance

Breakfast views

Giant Illuminated arrow

Nuthatches

Daytime Aurora?

Sunrise at the breakfast table

Bodø train in a bow of rain

Thunder and rainbows

Early morning stars

Beaming Trondheimsfjord

11 pm

Intense rainbow at 10pm

A Double Rainbow Bridge

End of May sunrise

Today’s sky and fjord views: 2nd March 2017

Views from the garden this week

Sunrise of the week!

It’s back…and at 11:30 am, gone again!

A two minute day!

Jackdaws fly towards the red sky

Red sky in the morning…

Dawn 17th October 2016

The Red Sea of Malvik

Solstice sunrise in Malvik

Sunrise wake-up

Cold but stunning!

0530am

Tonight’s view, 23rd July 2016

Sunrise on 22nd July

Moonrise and sunrise

Sunset on the shore: 4th July 2016

Stunning 11pm double rainbow

Solstice skies

Lights in the sky!

Early morning view 11th March 2016

Malvik dawn 4th March 2016

The bay was on fire this morning

Sunrise on 14th February 2016

Garden and views 30th-31st January 2016

Almost back again

More secondhand sun

Supermarket (1)

Korean supermarket in Vancouver BC

Sweetener (3)

Stephe and the Stephia

100% self-sufficient in sugar at 63.5N!

Winter storage

Talks (91)

Video of A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens

Future heirloom in Copenhagen

Seed saving talk weekend

The 2023 Permaveggies / Forest Gardening course

Wild Hive Talk at Home in Chandlers Ford: Resonating with Hampshire!

Free temporary access to my book and articles!

Rare perennial veg seed on offer in Chandlers Ford

Organic week in Trøndelag / Økouka i Trøndelag

Hablitzia Pinaattiohukaiset

Edimentals Goes Mainstream

Edimentals at the Southeastern Plant Symposium

Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Perennial vegetables webinar on Youtube

Back home

Visit to Seed Savers Exchange and the Vesterheim

Return to Austria

Seminar on Community Seed Banks in Oslo

Seacoast Permaculture in Portmouth, NH!

Perennial Vegetables and Edimentals in Maine

Live in Holyoke!

The Extreme Salad Man in Atlanta

Edimentals tour of the US

The Edible Garden Land Centre Opening

The Alston lecture in Atlanta, Georgia

2019 US East Coast Fall Speaking Tour

Valbjør Gård and Nordigard Aukrust!

Edimentals in Lom

Væres Venner status

Cobham and Chobham

Events in 2019 with the Extreme Salad Man!

Guest speaker at the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival

Visit to Bioforsk Landvik in 2012

Tour de Portugal links

The Wild Plants Lady meets the Extreme Salad Man

Visit to Pro Specie Rara

Talking in a swimming pool: Neubad and Neugarten

Ringebu Prestegård

Dokka Garden Festival

Perennial vegetable course at Landås

Extreme Salad Man on Gardener’s Question Time

Extreme Salad Man at Mount Stewart events this summer

Extreme Salad Man Videos

Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!

Japan and the edible perennials Webinar

Hampshire and the Hungry Gap talk!

The Potential of Perennials for Food Resilience symposium

Arche Noah at Seeds for the Future seminar

Perennial vegetables and edimentals for cities

Høstivalen edible walk and talks

Around the world in 80 Alliums

Allinge talk and walk

Talk at the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens

Talk in the Gothenburg botanical gardens

Invasives talk at the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre

Valdres

The Masonic Hall in Montreal

Hurdal Nordic Permaculture Festival 2013

Åfjord course day

Article in Austrian der Presse am sonntag

City farm and Wolfgang Palme

Walk and Talk in the Vienna Botanical Gardens

Salzburg and the end of the Tour d’Austria

Edimentals tour of the Botanischer Garten Universität Salzburg

Auerhütte am Seewaldsee

Vienna

Arche Noah’s Show Gardens

Alton

Nabolagshager

Centretown United Church and Ottawa snowchokes

Article about my visit to Sogn Jord- og Hagebruksskule

Join me for a weekend in Sogn and Hardanger

Around the World Around the World talk on Youtube

Around the world in 80 plant video from Hurdal

Mini tour of Canada

A visit to Riverton in March 2015!

Weekend course at Nesheimstunet

Organic seminar 2016 at Bjerkem

Edimentals Evening at the Teeny Weeny Farm!

Portåsen and Norwegian Plant Heritage

The Extreme Salad Man UK mini tour; June 2016

Coming home to talk to some groovy growers

Around the World in Oslo!

Appearance at Hellens Garden Festival in Much Marcle

Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015

Workshops with the extreme salad man in Iceland in early September!

Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend talks in October

Announcing two Around the World events in Seattle

Poster for my Portland, Oregon talks

Edible garden tour at the Tromsø arctic-alpine botanic garden

Join me on the island of the Angels in Northern Norway in June!

Walled Kitchen Gardens Network talk in October

Tea plants (1)

The Silk Oak: Quercus mongolica

Tempura (3)

Shidoke

Taranome and taranoki

Perennial vegetable tempura

topset onion (1)

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

Train (1)

The House from Nordlandsbanen

Tree leaves (1)

Easter decorations

Trees (42)

Goat willow “rotvelt”

Norway Maple Fall

Norway spruce in my garden

Singing Brambling

Easter decorations

Curry Leaf House Plant

First leafing again

Snow covered with storm blown debris and seed

Yew berry year and the vine

Rowan, birch and lime

Pine flowering

Salad leaves

Kurrajong: a house tree with edible roots!

Balestrand and the journey to Sogn

Grow your own Christmas tree

For Helge Finnøy

Walk with Bosse in the Gothenberg Botanics

Autumn in my forest garden

Clearfell / Flatehogst

Taranome and taranoki

Coppicing

Perennials vs. annuals

Hablitzia overwhelming an olive tree

Announcing the First Annual Hardanger Perennialen!

Holma Forest Garden video!

Alys Fowler on ATW in the Guardian

Electronic release of Around the World in 80 plants

The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2014-2015

Shoreditch Radio Interview on Around the World!

From the vaults: my Edible and Useful Plant Seed Trade List from 2000!

#ATWselfie

Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001

World Record Salad Invite

Holma Forest Garden / Holma skogsträdgård June 2014

Alexandra Berkutenko and the Giant Edimentals of the Russian Far East

A little salad recipe :)

Trials (1)

Nytt fra KVANNs hager og samlinger hos Væres Venner i Trondheim

Tubers (51)

XMAS 2024 RHIZODIVERSITY

Traditional Wapato Harvest

Daniil and the duck potatoes

Rhizo-bacalhau

Freezing Wapato and Chinese Arrowhead harvest

A real Oca yield outside at 63.4N

Tubers and roots; December 2020

2020 Potato Harvest

Yacon and Madeira Vine flowering outside

Sarpo Tominia: the 17th harvest

Queen Anne’s Thistle: a multi-purpose ediavientomental*

Rice lily

Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant

February barl-emm-otto

Happy Edimentalmas

Jack-on

Long circular Yam

Chinese arrowhead: chestnut and artichoke in one vegetable!

Potato harvest at Væres Venner

Potato holiday

Kurrajong: a house tree with edible roots!

Monster spring beauty tuber!

Harerug bread

Last harvest of 2017 and the most colourful!

Happy New Edimental Year

An album of potato diversity in my garden

Oca still in full flower

Potato diversity in Malvik; 11th September 2011

Andes in Malvik 2008

Today’s greens

Dog’s tooth violet

Jicama-ahipa à la Henry quinoa

Soba stir-fried cellar vegetables

Yam daisy aboriginal tuber cultivation

Rice lily

Forcing Andean root crops for winter greens

..and end of the year Yacon harvest

End of the year Andes in Malvik tuber harvest

Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry

My first Yacon flower after 10 years of trying!

Oca and Ulluco safely inside!

Chufa/tiger nut harvest

Yacon at 63.5N

Yam beans

Nepalese feast in Malvik

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

Wild Ulluco

Spring shoots in December

3rd year Paolo JA crosses

Perennial vegetable tempura

More edible companions

Uncategorized (49)

A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens

Recently scanned family photos on my mum’s 95th!

Tim Harland RIP

Ringve’s 50th Biodiversity Celebrations

Green blackcurrant

Dad’s potatoes – life goes on!

Habby in the snow

The Ladies 15, Admirals 2

Bombus consobrinus on Himalayan Balsam

Hallelujah

18th May over the fjord!

Visit from Permalin

Laptop noise

Grain eaters

Hibiscus winter greeting on Meg’s Sickstieth!

Digging for victory

Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!

Perennialen IV

Balestrand and the journey to Sogn

White-tailed eagle pair

Last harvest of 2017 and the most colourful!

Happy New Edimental Year

Diagonally planted garlic and parsnip

Insects on Hemp Agrimony

Redback in the garden?

Ken’s field and nature reserve in Sugadaira, Japan

Norrland visits Norrland Onion

Forslag til navn

My very first garden in Edinburgh!

Lorna and Kia

Reflection

Snow showers all day

Old snow in the garden

Waning crescent moon

Balcony view

28th September 2015

Dawning of a new day, new and old dreams

Kamikaze Horseradish?

Midnight in Malvik

More books…

Green birthday party

Norwegian summary of the Heritage seeds seminar in Bulgaria 16th-18th April 2015

Nordic Permaculture Festival workshop

Major storm Ole

Why oh why did I ask for all these?

IT’S BACK

AGS seed

Kort foredrag i Trondheim / Short talk in Trondheim

Foredrag / Talks / Minikurs / Mini-courses in 2014

Urban farming (1)

Parkens Grøde

Variegation (1)

Variegated Habby on Nesodden

Vegetarian (3)

Extreme winter record salad

3 Basellaceae for Xmas dinner

Stussvik and Vidar Rune Synnevåg

Walk and talk (16)

Edimentals at Kew Gardens; April 2024

Video of A Virtual Edimentals Walk Around Burnley Gardens

EDIMENTALS VISITS RHS WISLEY

Organic week in Trøndelag / Økouka i Trøndelag

With Joe Hollis in Paradise!

Walk and talk at Jøssåsen

The Edible Garden Land Centre Opening

2019 US East Coast Fall Speaking Tour

Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre

Events in 2019 with the Extreme Salad Man!

Tour de Portugal links

Herdade do Freixo do Meio

Edible plants of the Sintra Natural Park

Visit to Pro Specie Rara

KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; Ringve Open Day

Mount Stewart

walkabout onion (2)

A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!

Mandy Barber’s Incredible Vegetables and The Field

walks (50)

Carmen Porter and Hemmingford

Walk and forage to Tripynten

Home again

Foraging Alpine Bistort Bulbils

KVANN’s Annual Meeting Weekend: Day 4; Ostrich Fern hike along the Homla

Walks along Hampshire’s chalk streams

Wasabi shop, the Kawazu-Nanadaru Loop Bridge and the Kawazu Seven Falls

Sally Gap

Beach Walk 30th December

On the Guadiana River

Tour de Portugal links

In search of the wild asparagus at Bombeira do Guadiana

Mostly edibles at Magoito

Winchester walk

KVANN meet 2018; Walk along the Homla canyon

Centro d’Ompio and Pettenasco

Homla walk May 2018

Extreme Salad Man on Gardener’s Question Time

Extreme Salad Man at Mount Stewart events this summer

Day 2 of the Hvaler Permaveggies Course

The perfect birthday gift: a botanist for the evening!

Extreme Salad Man is a Guest of BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party!!

On the Itchen in Hampshire

Edimentals in Stanley Park, Vancouver

Beacon (Camas) Hill, Victoria BC

Jondal to the Folgefonna Glacier

Forbord to Malvik bike push!

Malvik walk

Høstivalen edible walk and talks

Allinge talk and walk

Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling

On the rocks

Åfjord course day

Walk and Talk in the Vienna Botanical Gardens

Edimentals tour of the Botanischer Garten Universität Salzburg

St. Koloman to Trattberg

Arche Noah and the Seewardsee

Vienna

Ramslia

Homla walk 2nd June 2017

Homla ostrich fern tour; 17th May 2017

Vikhammer plants and birds

Nesodden

Fungi tour from Fjølstadtrøa

Sunday’s forest tour in Malvik with Naturvernforbundet

Central Park with Leda Meredith

Danish walk down the Homla canyon

Alys’ Pool

Danish invasion of Vennafjellet

Coming home to talk to some groovy growers

water plants (10)

Daniil and the duck potatoes

Sam Thayer and Mississippi wapato

Freezing Wapato and Chinese Arrowhead harvest

The mini-pond and marginal areas

NEW PATH AND A VIDEO OF THE POND

Swamp saxifrage salad

Jorge’s edible water garden

Chinese arrowhead: chestnut and artichoke in one vegetable!

Brown Cress is Back

My pond is back

weather (14)

The Balcony in the rain

January storms

Hoodies struggle against the wind

Sea Smoke

3 swallows don’t make it summer

Snow covered with storm blown debris and seed

Robin singing at 10 pm

15 Swallows don’t make a summer!

Ken Fern’s Plants for a Future database

weeds (16)

White-flowered Sonchus oleraceus

No thanks no dig

Hablitzia as a weed!

Sonchus and Basil Pesto

Garlic Barley Weedotto!

Weeding Vermont!

Ragged Jack kale and Siberian onion sourdough pizza

No dig?

Tsukushi

Korsmo’s Dandelion Print

On the rocks

Ancient Weeding Technique Revisited

Sonchus “Custard in Greens”

Haredylle: gratis mat på alle kontinenter

A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!

More weedo wierdo pesto

Wild Edibles (18)

Mot en Norsk Spiselig Flora / Towards a Norwegian Edibles Flora

The VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver BC

Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling

On the rocks

Vikhammer plants and birds

Fawn lilies and Camas in Victoria

Around the world with Erythroniums

Katakuri at Mt. Iimoriyama

More seed for stratifying

Danish walk down the Homla canyon

Persian Cornflower

Danish invasion of Vennafjellet

Vennafjellet: 3rd July 2016

Wild food for 100 days so far

Siberian Hogweed en masse

Dent-de-lion

Allium victorialis diversity

Wild365

wild flowers (8)

Scything the meadow

Centro d’Ompio and Pettenasco

Fawn lilies and Camas in Victoria

Katakuri at Mt. Iimoriyama

Danish walk down the Homla canyon

Alys’ Pool

Danish invasion of Vennafjellet

Vennafjellet: 3rd July 2016

wildlife friendly plants (1)

Greenfinch eating goatsbeard seed

Winter protection (4)

End of February Greens

Winter ready perennial kales

Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!

Forbord illuminations, long dig and leaf piles

Winter shoots (23)

Habby Chicago Eggs

Macrogreens and the first Dandelion Flowers

Winter garlic shoots 2020-2021

Giant Ulleung Celery

Edibles in the January Bulb Garden at the Gothenburg Botanics

Sprouts in the cellar

The first winter shoots

Horseradish harvest

Preparing dandelions for forcing

Snow harvest

H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad

Long Horseradish root

Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!

January vegetables from cellar and window sills

Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1

Today in the garden

Food diversity events in Trondheim next week!

Hablitzia excavation

Udo roots for forcing

Sulfur containing winter greens

Forced ostrich wings…

Forced Japanese Chives

Indoor edible shoots: my living room is alive!!

winter storage (1)

Digging December

Winter vegetables (23)

End of February Greens

Living room veggies; March 2024

Indoor harvest

Unpacking the Edimentals Herbarium

Habby Chicago Eggs

Cellar and Garden Greens: 6th April 2022

Dissected dandelion bud

Forced March Perennial Greens

Still green after the freeze

Winter garlic shoots 2020-2021

Harvesting winter vegetables before the freeze

Self-sufficient in Cress

Giant Ulleung Celery

Winter Tradescantia shoots

Dennis’ veggies

Horseradish harvest

Preparing dandelions for forcing

Snow harvest

The first garden forage of the year!

Winter quiche

H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad

Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!

January vegetables from cellar and window sills

woodlander (4)

Flowering waterleafs

Trillium days in the edible garden

Day 4 of the Permaveggies course and Ligularia wraps!

Edimentals !

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