Sofias Country Gardens

I just love growing peas! It may be because my first gardening success was growing peas, and I still remember the pride and joy I felt...

This time of the year I always have too many zucchinis in the garden. It seems that no matter how late everything else is, the zucchini...

This year I have a feeling that everything in the kitchen garden has been late. This may or may not be an objective truth, as I do recall...

Most years I try to grow something new in my vegetable garden, and this year it was the pea Blauwschokker. When I say new, I mean new to...

This autumn my godfathers spent a month in the country with me, and as we love to spend time cooking one of our projects was to pickle...

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...

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...

We have had an unusually sunny and warm September this year, and the kitchen garden has continued to deliver enormous amounts of...

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...

The best part of growing my own food is the simplicity and variety it offers with different vegetables for dinner each night. If we are...

The first rain this summer came on midsummer eve, and I for one was dancing with joy. Before the rain my garden was looking dusty and...