About this time of year, everyone else is on holiday and the garden is happily growing. The weather is swapping between sun, light rain, and overcast so it’s sunny but a lot less extreme than other months. If you have the time needed you can achieve a lot in the garden. Garden Plan The garden […]
In northern Sweden, May is the big change from below zero overnight temperatures to full/blown summer. Here is what we got up to this month. New Fence Our main investment this month was a small traditional Swedish fence (gärdsgårder). The idea was to give a bit of a windbreak because the plants in this corner […]
This article is for people wondering what it is like growing vegetables in northern Sweden, compared to places like the UK. Specifically for location and climate, we’re a little south of Umeå and near the sea. We aren’t experts, we’re just having fun learning as we go. The Seasons Not much happens prior to April […]
This month we had family to visit and later we had a minidigger arrive to help us in the garden. We managed to get out and enjoy the summer a little. The main constraint to developing the house and garden remained time, budget, and slowly building up tools and contacts. Stugga Visit We went out […]
Our first summer with the big greenhouse, things started to get a bit out of control. The watering demands were eating up all the evenings after work and the plants were getting massive in the greenhouse. The problem became that the bigger plants, like the the Sweetcorn we had planted, were blocking the flow of […]