Sofias Country Gardens

As May comes to an end, the garden has turned lush and green. I'm so pleased at how the Double Late Foxtrot pink tulips I planted in...

There is a joke going around in memes at the moment, about May being called May because it may be sunny, it may be raining, there may be...

Last week my kind neighbour gave me a lovely surprise when he gifted me a whole wagon load of sawdust. For someone who values handbags...

As any gardener will know, keeping weeds at bay is perhaps one of the most challenging tasks we face in keeping decorative flower borders...

Winter is the perfect time for planning and dreaming about the garden as very little can be done outside. I am an old romantic and I...

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 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...

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...

Sometimes I feel that the vegetable garden takes a disproportionate amount of my time, as I really get a lot of pleasure from the...

Often when I'm asked how I manage growing organically without any chemical fertilisers and pesticides people are surprised at the...

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...

Last autumn my wonderful godfathers sent me a survival pack from Holland, and of course a Dutch survival pack contains nothing but the...

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...

Some projects are such that I spend an extraordinary amount of time thinking about them before they happen. Depending on project, the...

One of the great pleasures in life is travelling in springtime. Travelling is mostly wonderful, but I find that travelling in spring is...

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...

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...

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...