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 >

AAANNNDDD, winter colds are finally over for this year. And we had quite a cold winter, it got down to -19°C. Oh the ice and snow, and I couldn’t go skiing. ccccc …. So, let’s start our garden season. The daffodils and tulips I planted in autumn are sprouting and will soon be in full Read More >

Hi! Being a freak for all things festive I also like to add some holiday mode in the garden. And what better thing than the decorated tree 🙂 . I really really love the pines and conifers, so I decided to add a mini conifer to my garden. Picea Glauca ‘Conica’ is perfect. It’s small, Read More >

Yesterday was a nice sunny COLD winter day here. So I though to myself – What can I do now? I know! Re-plant my mini yellow roses! I mean it’s completely WRONG season to plant ANYTHING. So why not plant roses. My logic sometimes suprises me. I know that it’s completely wrong to plant them Read More >

I don’t know about you, but I’m crazy about clematis and bulbs. I could have entire garden planted with them. So since it’s autumn I planted my favourite spring time bulbs – daffodils and tulips. Little bit about bulbs There are different bulbs, and based on their flowering time there are spring, summer and autumn Read More >

Hi! This year is at it’s end so I began the preparing garden for next year. At the side of our house we have a couple of square meters of land that I want to plant with perennials and bulbs. The reasoning is to have something that is not grass, that looks nice through the Read More >