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    Sofias Country Gardens

    Cottage Gardens in south of Finland

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    How to start a vegetable garden
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    How to start a vegetable garden

    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...
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    Crop rotation
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Feb 14, 2020
    • 5 min

    Crop rotation

    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...
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    Hopi blue sweetcorn
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jan 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    Hopi blue sweetcorn

    If there is one thing I really love, it is to try out growing new and colourful vegetable varieties. This always happens with sweetcorn...
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    Cauliflower Neckarperle
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Oct 25, 2019
    • 5 min

    Cauliflower Neckarperle

    I think the first time I felt worthy of calling myself a gardener was a few years ago when I managed to grow my very first own crop of...
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    Off to bed
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Oct 13, 2019
    • 1 min

    Off to bed

    These last two weeks I have been super busy not only been harvesting what is left in the kitchen garden but also working on the...
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    Autumn sunshine
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Sep 27, 2019
    • 2 min

    Autumn sunshine

    Sometimes I feel that the vegetable garden takes a disproportionate amount of my time, as I really get a lot of pleasure from the...
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    How to make compost
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Sep 6, 2019
    • 4 min

    How to make compost

    Often when I'm asked how I manage growing organically without any chemical fertilisers and pesticides people are surprised at the...
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    All in with Allium!
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jul 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    All in with Allium!

    This summer I went all in with Allium giganteum, and what a show it was! Last years bulbs returned, and the ones I planted in autumn...
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    Eremurus robustus
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jul 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    Eremurus robustus

    Last autumn my wonderful godfathers sent me a survival pack from Holland, and of course a Dutch survival pack contains nothing but the...
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    Early June
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jun 14, 2019
    • 1 min

    Early June

    Early June is my favourite time of year! The days are bright and keep getting longer, and nature is still fresh and mild. In my cold...
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    New beginnings
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • May 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    New beginnings

    Some projects are such that I spend an extraordinary amount of time thinking about them before they happen. Depending on project, the...
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    Tulip mania in Paris
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Apr 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    Tulip mania in Paris

    One of the great pleasures in life is travelling in springtime. Travelling is mostly wonderful, but I find that travelling in spring is...
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    Pruning fruit trees
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Mar 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    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...
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    Purple dreams
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Mar 22, 2019
    • 3 min

    Purple dreams

    This year I dream of growing more purple vegetables in my garden. I find them beautiful to look at and apparently they are even healthier...
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    Pea Blauwschokker
    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...
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    Best tip for keeping snails away
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Feb 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    Best tip for keeping snails away

    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...
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    Five reasons I chose organic gardening
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jan 11, 2019
    • 5 min

    Five reasons I chose organic gardening

    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...
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    Beautiful broccoli
    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...
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    Brilliant beetroots
    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...
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    5 ways to teach kids to garden
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Sep 8, 2018
    • 4 min

    5 ways to teach kids to garden

    It is perhaps not very surprising to find that out of my three children, two are vegan/ vegetarian and the third only eats free range...
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