Sofias Country Gardens

A year ago I had an operation to help with my back problems which meant that the whole of last years gardening season went to waste. It...

August has crept up on me quietly like the nights that keep getting darker and longer. Unlike spring that tends to arrive with a dramatic...

Meanwhile back at the ranch (as the saying goes) the kitchen garden is coming up trumps this year. This year I have been fascinated with...

People often ask me at what time in the spring I start planting my kitchen garden. It's a very good question, as the weather and...

Generally in Finland, October is the month that has the highest average rainfall and this year I have really noticed it. Perhaps it is...

Some years ago a friend of mine gave me Little Gem squash seeds to try out, and much to my delight they were beautiful so two years in a...

Mid August and the kitchen garden is at its best. It is such a fleeting moment of time, this zenith of the vegetable gardening year when...

They say "Give a woman a zucchini plant and you will never eat anything else!" and it probably holds true to a fair degree. At least each...

At this time of year I'm always grumbling about how late the vegetables are when in fact they are perfectly on time. I feel like I'm...

After three weeks of rain we finally got some sunshine and dry weather - for about a week! Some autumns are like this, that the rain...

This week it has been raining more or less constantly, and even when there has been a break in the downpour the skies have been dark and...

We've had the most beautiful sunshine for the last weeks, and yet there is a crispness to the air that reminds me the summer soon draws...

By now my kitchen garden has gone quite mad and wild. I love to grow Marigolds in my garden for the bees and other beneficial insects,...

It has been a long wait, that's for sure! A little nibble here and there as the vegetables have slowly grown to size, but nothing like...

Blessed are the gardeners who always succeed, but I'm just not one of them. Sometimes things just don't work out as planned. Sometimes,...

As it has been a grey and slightly cold week, I haven't gotten any nice pictures from the garden so instead I thought I would make a...

Starting a vegetable garden may seem like a difficult project, while in fact it is quite simple and a lot of fun. As I'm often asked by...

One of the key practices in organic gardening is the use of crop rotation, where no crops are grown in the same place in consecutive...

If there is one thing I really love, it is to try out growing new and colourful vegetable varieties. This always happens with sweetcorn...

I'll say it straight up front: I'm not a great fan of potatoes. Mostly they are a boring and bland staple food served at cheap...