Sofias Country Gardens
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...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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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