Sofias Country Gardens
10 decorative ideas for the garden
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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