Articles tagged with gardening
Overwintering Herbs - Trial and Error
Last summer I sowed and planted all kinds of biennial and perennial herbs in my garden.
From seed I had
- thyme
- marjoram
- parsley and
- chives
and as young plants from the garden store I… more
Planting Winter Garlic
Did you know that in cold climates it's better to plant garlic in the fall than in spring? It gives it a head start and enables it to grow big bulbs by the next fall.
We Are Harvesting our Corn
When a friend of ours who lives a few kilometres from us said that he would be harvesting their corn the next day, we thought that we should look after ours as well. On the next day the weather wasn't that nice, so we decided to wait a little… more
Conserving the Carrots In Sand
We had a lots of carrots in our garden. Before frost we harvested them all, Lumias Mom came over to help on a sunny day and we got everything out in an hour or so. But the problem really is: we can't eat them all at once. So we searched for an… more
The Last Tomatoes - or: Winter Is Coming
When we came to Finland I immediately started building a small tomato green house. I built it from old cupboard parts, basically with nearly no costs at all - just for the screws and the PVC foil.
Welcome October
It's the 1st of October. In Finland, the summer is definitely over. The leaves are dropping, the temperatures are dropping and the amound of daylight hours is declining too. The garden is getting emptier also.