Sofias Country Gardens
Peas please!
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...
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Sofias Country Gardens
Jul 19, 20192 min read
Peas and potatoes
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
Jul 12, 20193 min read
The veg are coming...
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
May 18, 20192 min read
Busy bees
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
Mar 29, 20193 min read
Pruning fruit trees
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
Mar 15, 20192 min read
Pea Blauwschokker
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
Feb 22, 20194 min read
Looking back to the beginning
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
Nov 17, 20182 min read
November rain
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...
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 22, 20182 min read
September harvest
We have had an unusually sunny and warm September this year, and the kitchen garden has continued to deliver enormous amounts of...
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
Aug 11, 20181 min read
August pea harvest
The Ezeta’s Krombek Blauwshokker peas were glorious this year; round and sweet and beautiful to look at. Although I should have planted...
Sofias Country Gardens
Jul 28, 20183 min read
Food fast and slow
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
Jul 7, 20182 min read
Kitchen garden three weeks later
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
Jun 16, 20182 min read
Kitchen garden update
The new raised beds in my kitchen garden are now finished and planted up with this years vegetables, surrounded with a sturdy net fence...
Sofias Country Gardens
May 26, 20183 min read
Gardening megalomania
Bigger is better, right? At least when it comes to gardens. Personally, I feel that when it comes to the kitchen garden more is...
Sofias Country Gardens
Oct 23, 20172 min read
The vegetable garden 2017
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...
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