Sofias Country Gardens
Best tip for keeping snails away
Being an organic gardener, I often get asked how I control slugs and snails in my gardens. It is a fair question considering I am...
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Sofias Country Gardens
Jan 11, 20195 min read
Five reasons I chose organic gardening
Ever since I first started gardening while in my twenties, I have always gone down the organic route. As I had the choice, I decided to...
Sofias Country Gardens
Oct 20, 20182 min read
Beautiful broccoli
Broccoli is one of my favourite vegetables and one that we eat many times a week with the family. I must have a hundred recipes with...
Sofias Country Gardens
Oct 6, 20182 min read
Brilliant beetroots
One of my favourite things is eating beetroots fresh from the garden. They are wonderful vegetables in that they do keep for weeks at end...
Sofias Country Gardens
Sep 8, 20184 min read
5 ways to teach kids to garden
It is perhaps not very surprising to find that out of my three children, two are vegan/ vegetarian and the third only eats free range...
Sofias Country Gardens
Sep 1, 20182 min read
Just one more...
The thing I like the best about gardening is that you are never "done" or "ready". Just when one part of the garden starts looking...
Sofias Country Gardens
Aug 25, 20182 min read
My favourite carrots
Each year I have some staple vegetables that I grow, and a mix of different coloured carrots is one of them. For many years I bought a...
Sofias Country Gardens
Jul 14, 20182 min read
A new rose pergola
Remember last new year when I made New Years resolutions and promised myself I would have a rose pergola this year? Well, this summer we...
Sofias Country Gardens
Jun 30, 20182 min read
Midsummer at the Gatekeepers Cottage
After a month with no rain I was amazed to have anything at all growing in my gardens. I do spend an extraordinary amount of time...
Sofias Country Gardens
May 19, 20182 min read
A week in the garden in May
At Stensund we have two glorious flowering cherries that my mother and father planted for my sister and me when we were little, and each...
Sofias Country Gardens
May 12, 20184 min read
How I use wood chip mulch in my garden
One of the great benefits of having a farm with large woods is the abundant raw material I have access to. Each year there are trees that...
Sofias Country Gardens
Apr 28, 20183 min read
Spring cleaning
For the soul, April is the most demanding month. Suddenly the sun comes out dancing from nowhere like a tease promising all sorts of fun,...
Sofias Country Gardens
Mar 31, 20185 min read
How to care for the spring garden in a cold climate
Gardening in a cold climate really is quite a bit different than in a more tempered climate, and I can say this with certainty after...
Sofias Country Gardens
Dec 21, 20172 min read
November and December 2017
During the last two months of the year, there is little to be done in the garden but buckle down for the winter. The ground is mostly too...
Sofias Country Gardens
Nov 8, 20172 min read
October 2017
October is the month when my garden prepares to go to bed for the winter. A bit like me really... The darker and shorter the days become,...
Sofias Country Gardens
Aug 27, 20172 min read
Enjoying a secret
I have a secret garden tucked away above the house at Humlegård. Although it is just above the parking lot by the front door, it is...
Sofias Country Gardens
Jul 13, 20172 min read
June 2017
And suddenly summer arrived, cooler than expected but with a lush greenery due to all the rain. Everywhere flowers burst out from their...
Sofias Country Gardens
Jun 11, 20172 min read
Never enough time for weeds
By the end of May summer is suddenly in full bloom. It is a magic transformation that occurs within the space of a week or two. The days...
Sofias Country Gardens
Apr 30, 20172 min read
First of May weekend
In Finland we like to celebrate Vappu on the 30th of April. It is one of the biggest holidays in the annual calendar, and continues until...
Sofias Country Gardens
Apr 1, 20174 min read
Sedum and a wild lawn
One of the great joys in my life is being close to nature and wildlife in the countryside, and I think that my favourite kind of wildlife...
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