The Edible Garden LAND Centre - Edimentals HQ

The Edible Garden LAND Centre - Edimentals HQ Home and garden of Stephen Barstow, author of Around the World in 80 plants. from around the world. Open by appointment.

The garden contains a large collection of edible plants, mainly perennials (leafy greens, roots and tubers, nuts, fruit, weeds etc.) Home and garden of Stephen Barstow, author of Around the World in 80 plants!

13/07/2025

KVANN - Kunnskap og Vern av Nytteplanter i Norge / Norwegian Seed SaversTo assure the quality of our work, KVANN is organised through 37 PLANTELAUG and TEMALAUG

29/06/2025

After the wettest May ever and only a few days over 20C (we call them summer days!), my oldest 23 year old Hablitzia has grown more vigorously than ever and ...

17/04/2025

The edges of my annual beds in the garden are not so productive as they are drier because of overhanging branches of the hazel,/birch/aspen woodland adjacent...

I have a 20+ year old sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree in my garden. I didn't really think it would make it here, s...
25/10/2024

I have a 20+ year old sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree in my garden. I didn't really think it would make it here, so it was planted in not the best spot in the garden. To my great surprise, it has only suffered a little frost damage at the tips in the first few years. It even survived the record cold winter in 2011 here when the entire root system would have been frozen solid for up to 4 months. Last year, I noticed both male and female flowers for the first time, but no nuts resulted. Then, I was leading a tour of the garden in September and took the participants into the lane below the garden from where there's a good view of the chestnut, a mulberry, Chinese walnut, Carya ovata, Cornus kousa and Rhus typhina. My eyes rested on a chestnut at the top of the tree! I cried out in my excitement and ddi a little dance to the amusement of those present! The 20 year wait to see if chestnuts could ripen up here was perhaps over! With only one tree, I hadn't expected this and had planted a second tree next to it, but that is also growing slowly and it will be some years before it flowers.
Last week, we had another look and it looked as though it was slightly open and looked mature (darker colour). I therefore decided to knock it down. There is thick vegetation below the tree, and despite searching I could find no chestnut....just the open husk (pictures). It was presumably not pollinated, but it does give me hope that it is possible in this area. This tree came from woodland in southern England. I've now planted good varieties at the community garden (Væres Venner Felleshage), so will just have to wait!

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Malvik
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