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 year again, as always in fact, I'm filling almost half of the garden with peas, beans and potatoes. I love peas and beans, and it...

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...

This week I've been busy preparing the kitchen garden for the coming season. Last year I renewed the beds and doubled their size, which...

To me pruning fruit trees is an art form, and one that I'm not very good at. I enjoy it a lot, but rather as with painting in oil colour...

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...

It is always nice to look back to the beginning and think about all the things that have happened along the way, and so I thought I would...

As autumn descends on us I always think of the title of a Louis Bromfield novel: "The rains came". In Finland in autumn the weather...

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 Ezeta’s Krombek Blauwshokker peas were glorious this year; round and sweet and beautiful to look at. Although I should have planted...

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...

The new raised beds in my kitchen garden are now finished and planted up with this years vegetables, surrounded with a sturdy net fence...

Bigger is better, right? At least when it comes to gardens. Personally, I feel that when it comes to the kitchen garden more is...

Summer to me is all about the kitchen garden. I have to admit I am a bit obsessed with my small vegetable paradise, and each year I spend...