Right around now, when your eyes are inundated with the glare of white snow as far as you can see, it's nice to think about the equally blinding green that will take over a few months later. Seriously, I'm looking at these pictures and squinting from green overload. I don't remember it being quite [...] 
Yep, these were made with green tomatoes. I tried growing some tomato plants my first year out here, only the weather never picked up enough for the fruit to ripen, so I ended up with a bag of green tomatoes at the end of the growing season. They were cherry tomatoes, so they [...] This post has so much pink in it that I suppose it would have been more suitably put up on Valentine’s Day. It owes much to the fact that I was taking photos of stuff in a bright pink berry-picking bucket, though. The giant yellow squash at the beginning kinda dilutes the sickly sweet feeling, [...] This past autumn ended up being very messy and hurried, the result of having been away for a last-minute Taiwan trip followed by an early cold snap with snow. I only managed to harvest one apple tree (two others were left to the wildlife) and the small pear trees. The three grape vines were a [...] We went away for a couple of weeks on holiday during the prime growing season, so it’s no surprise that the garden turned into a jungle in the meantime. Now I’m scrabbling to harvest and clean up as much as I can before the temperatures drop. It’s all a bit daunting, but I’m sure we’ll [...] I’ve been mentioning the food items coming out the garden recently, but haven’t really done any posts on the general state of things. So this is a post to remedy that. Finnish summers are all about a surplus of daylight and moisture, so things get ridiculously lush in short order. Our current look is somewhere [...] Because it’s July and suddenly I can’t keep up with all the stuff there is to do out there! With prime berry picking season just around the corner, it’s about to get really crazy here at Casa Kerfuffle. #gallery-6 { margin: auto; } #gallery-6 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } [...] It was a bit too soggy to go out in the garden most of last week. Things started to clear up at the end of this past week, though, so here is what came out of the garden recently! 06/18 – 145g lettuce & greens. 06/27 – 220g lettuce & greens. Two different [...] For the past several years, I’ve sighed wistfully upon seeing various gardening blogs put up their weekly harvest tallies. I’d sadly poke at the few pots next to the kitchen window and make mental lists of all the things I’d grow if I actually had a decent piece of land. Well, guess what? This is [...] #gallery-7 { margin: auto; } #gallery-7 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-7 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-7 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Bought another aloe at Plantagen last weekend. Can’t have enough of these guys, I think. I will definitely have to invest in more fall bulbs if they all do so well here. Did I mention some tulips made a guest appearance? I suppose we do have the sort of weather they enjoy. View of my cleaned-up greenhouse interior. Still looks pretty tame. White dicentra, which will go where there pink one goes. Pink dicentra I got on sale last week. Don’t know where it’s going yet. Repotted peony. Still don’t know where it’s going yet. My 2 year old calamondin has once again been repotted and is enjoying its new greenhouse home. The clivia T’s granny gave us has been repotted and is now also in the greenhouse. The droopy lavender I seeded last spring is now looking much happier in the greenhouse. I put in 9 rows of “cold weather crops” the first weekend of May. We’ll see when they sprout. Parsley, purple carrots and cilantro. Leaf lettuce, spring onion and salad dandelion. Leaf lettuce, mixed carrots and spinach. I also plan to plant my cucumbers directly into these bags once the weather warms a bit more. My first (and probably temporary) raised garden bed. Made from… bed frames :-) There’s a few different types now, but I totally will continue adding varieties starting this fall. I love narcissi. Can’t get enough of them. Always wanted a giant bed of them in my garden and now I have some! |
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