Sofias Country Gardens

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...