Spring

Hi, we raided my Mums backyard a week ago. And brought with us sour cherries and red currants. I made us some preserves from those fruit. We pitted the cherries and put them in the freezer bags and froze them. So we can use them in the winter time to make some cherry desserts. The Read More >

Hi, this year for cherry preserves I decided to do a sweet cherry pie filling. It has a bit of zing because of the lime, and spiciness of cinnamon. The biggest task here is pitting all of the cherries. Say goodbye to nice nails for a while. Sweet cherries I got weren’t especially big or Read More >

Hi, we had our first broad beans harvest. And carrot harvest as well. These were used for tasty lunch of broad bean stew. So far we had two more harvests and next weekend we’ll have the last small harvest of broad beans. I put them in the freezer and will use them over the year. Read More >

Hi, we got some pallets from our friend some year ago. We wanted to used them for furniture, but opted not to in the end. So I decided to use them to make reclaimed wood container cover. I disassembled them and then used the wood to make the covers so that containers look better. I Read More >

Hi, this isn’t exactly a spring post. you can do this in any season as long as the weather is nice, but this weekend we are finally building our brick barbecue. Next weekend will be the its first run 🙂 Can’t wait! What we are using old bricks that we have because we took down Read More >

Now that the winter has passed and our picea glauca fir survived, it’s time to give it a nice home. I replanted it into my standard planter couple of weeks ago. And now it’s showing signs of growth. The only problem I’m having is my cat using the picea planter as a litter box. Dunno Read More >

It’s been a while and my tomatoes have grown from seeds to nice little plants with real leaves. Warm weather has arrived and they will soon be planted outside, so it’s time for tomato hardening. What is tomato hardening? Tomato hardening or any plant hardening is a procedure in which we prepare plants that grew Read More >

Temperatures are high and the cherries of all kinds are in season. Last week I found nice sweet cherries in the market and decided to make cocktail sweet cherries. This is how I made them. I used rum in my recipe and just plain water. But you can ommit the rum and use cherry juice Read More >

We’re getting ready for tomato season on our patio. I know it’s a bit late and they seem a bit small, but I had to restart the season after wind knocked my tomato seedlings that i planted earlier in the spring. We were devastated. This year also proved to be a bit strange when it Read More >

OH I love clematis! I’m crazy about clematis! Can’t wait for them to bloom! I just purchased two clematis plants one is Ville de Lyon and other is Summer Snow. I had to make an obstacle for my cat to stop jumping from terrace to my neighbour’s roof so I used the mesh that is Read More >