A bit of a glut of fruit in my garden. I’ve therefore been drying raspberries and currants :) At the bottom are the dried fruit, also bilberries and saskatoons!
The red variety is a tasty disease resistent variety we found escaped from the old Malvik railway station garden below the house. There are two yellow varieties, one just received as gulbringebær (yellow raspberry), the lighter coloured one that is almost white when unripe is called “White Russian”The red variety is a tasty disease resistent variety we found escaped from the old Malvik railway station garden below the house. There are two yellow varieties, one just received as gulbringebær (yellow raspberry), the lighter coloured one that is almost white when unripe is called “White Russian”
Redcurrants / ripsRedcurrants / rips
Dried bilberries / blåbær
Dried saskatoon berries (Amelanchier) / søtmispel
Dried red raspberries / bringebær
Dried redcurrants /rips
Dried yellow raspberries….White Russian are the lighter coloured berries
Pictures from my cycle home from work with a large detour up into the woods to pick bilberries and fungi!
The video that comes first is the magical moment when I discover a large ring of hedgehog fungi in the forest :)
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Saksvikkorsen on the pilgrim’s way into Nidarosdommen in Trondheim
Viewpoint at Saksvikkorsen on the pilgrim’s way into Nidarosdommen in Trondheim. Good views into Trondheim after a steep climb from the fjord! I’m about half way up from the fjord to the bilberry woods (my destination) here!
View over Trondheim from Saksvikkorsen with the new Grilstad marina in the foreground and Bymarka behind…
View over Trondheim from Saksvikkorsen
View over Trondheim from Saksvikkorsen with the new Grilstad marina in the foreground
Stephen Barstow 43 mins · The Pilgrim’s bench
112 km to walk on the pilgrim’s way to the historical village Stiklestad..
Masses of bilberries / blåbær!
Masses of bilberries / blåbær!
Masses of bilberries / blåbær!
Good bilberry / blåbær terrain!
A few chantarelles / kantarell on the way up
White gold…ring of hedgehog fungi / piggsopp
Beautiful cirrus clouds (James Yeoman?) on the way home
Beautiful cirrus clouds (James Yeoman?) on the way home
Sunset
The mushroom haul: Birch bolete (rødskrubb), chantarelle, saffran milk caps (matriske) and hedgehog fungus (piggsopp)
Birch bolete (rødskrubb), chantarelle (kantarell) and saffran milk caps (matriske)!
The haul from my cycle ride home (arriving home at 10:30 pm with only bilberrries for dinner!) apart from, bottom left, which are saskatoon berries picked in my garden!
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
