Sofias Country Gardens
Late August and harvest
I had a lovely two weeks away, when I was improving on my garden photography and visiting wonderful gardens for inspiration, but truly...
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Sofias Country Gardens
- Aug 17, 2019
- 2 min
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Aug 9, 2019
- 2 min
Veggarden update
This is what the kitchen garden looks like at the moment. I feel like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland who shouts "Oh my fur and...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Aug 2, 2019
- 2 min
Vegan zucchini fritters
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Jul 19, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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
- Mar 15, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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
- May 19, 2018
- 2 min
A week in the garden in May
At Stensund we have two glorious flowering cherries that my mother and father planted for my sister and me when we were little, and each...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Oct 23, 2017
- 2 min
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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