Category: garden
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Six on Saturday | 14th March 2026
The first seeds went into the ground this week — 274 grams of homegrown peas, pressed into the soil by hand. The comeback year is officially underway. Also: survivor thymes, immortal bergenias, a zombie apple tree, and two beds of defrosted freezer archaeology serving as a wildlife buffet.
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Six on Saturday | 7th March 2026
I took a year off from the garden. Not on purpose — 2025 was just that kind of year. But it’s early March, the snow is pulling back, and I went outside with a cold and a pair of boots to see what survived. Turns out the garden carried on without me, slightly offended.
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The Agreement
I saw them within the first weeks of moving here — summer 2012, barely unpacked. A doe with her fawns at dawn, moving along the strip of forest that separates our property from the neighbors. Then again in autumn, eating the fallen apples and plums alongside the hedgehogs and foxes. Roe deer — a doe,…
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June 2024 Vegetable Garden Tour
One year later and here we go again! A video taking you around the raised beds to see what’s growing in this year’s veg garden. It’s been fun to compare how much has changed since last year’s tour. I hope to do one of the flower garden as well, after I clean it up next…
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Six on Saturday | 22nd June 2024
Happy Midsummer weekend! With last week’s rains, several days of clear sunny skies and only a couple hours of twilight to call night, our garden has been growing at a breakneck pace. We are absolutely inundated with leafy greens at the moment and I have already started showing up to friends’ houses bearing whole lettuces.…
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Six on Saturday | 15th June 2024
I am determined to actually do this on the proper day this week, yes I am! The clear weather today after a week of thunderstorms (some of our friends had localized hail!) made it a very pleasant day for photography. Sadly, I will have to wait until next week to share whatever I pick up…
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Six on Saturday | 8th June 2024
The post discusses various updates on the garden, including the early blooming of Rosa pimpinellifolia ‘Plena’ due to unusual weather, a self-seeded lilac’s growth, and the neglected state of the Rhododendron ‘Helsinki University’. The author also mentions the spinach bolting and a visit to a nursery resulting in the acquisition of new herbs. The post…
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Six on Saturday | 1st June 2024
This year’s SoS posts finally kick off after a lull, with the excitement of the first asparagus harvest, apple trees in full blossom, forget-me-nots adding color to the garden, and the first stinging nettle harvest. Despite setbacks like high temperatures burning up some plants, the vegetable garden is mostly planted and sprouted.
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Six on Saturday | 9th December 2023
I’ve been waiting later and later every Saturday before writing these posts, hoping that I might snap a picture of something that will make its way into the collection. It’s made a little difficult by the fact that I can only take pictures on the weekend since it is dark when I leave the house…
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Six on Saturday | 2nd December 2023
I was going to skip SoS this week since I’m still catching up on reading the last couple of weeks’ posts from everybody and didn’t think there was much to share out here other than more snow. Yet here I am again because I realized that I’ve never tried documenting winter in the garden before…