Tag: kitchen garden
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Six on Saturday | 15th July 2023
We have now reached the stage of summer where there’s enough sun and rain for everything around us to turn an aggressive shade of green. You can almost see the plants growing while standing in front of them. Despite having experienced this jungle-like state of affairs every year for more than a decade, I’m never…
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Rheum rhabarbarum ‘Victoria’
Today, I’m going back to cataloging our oldest plants, if only so that I can have all their information in one place rather than bothering my poor friend (who lived here before us) whenever I forget. Possibly some of the oldest plants we have, this rhubarb patch dates back to the 1950s when the farm…
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Six on Saturday | 8th July 2023
A week of mellow rain and sun has made a world of difference in the garden — flowers are popping up everywhere and the vegetable garden is looking lush but not yet overgrown. It’s a nice, if short, interlude. I took a walk through our adjoining forest this morning, hoping that the chanterelles might have…
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Six on Saturday | 1st July 2023
This is my first time joining Six on Saturday, but I do love making lists! It’s been super dry and warm in our corner of Finland through most of June, which has taken its toll on the younger plants in our garden. Luckily, we had the wells to draw from and we made it through…
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June 2023 Vegetable Garden Tour
It’s been a month since my last vegetable garden update, so I thought I’d take you out into the garden today and show you what’s growing! Fair disclosure – I adore watching other people’s garden tours. I’m sure they make up a good portion of my watch history on Youtube. It’s horribly nosy but there…
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Green garlic, where have you been all my life?
These are the first stalks of green garlic I have ever picked. Up until last year, I didn’t even know such an option existed. Everyone knows about the dried bulbs, sure. I also knew that I’d have a bumper crop of garlic scapes later this year since our climate is most suited to hardneck varieties.…
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First harvest of 2023!
That’s a bowl of baby spinach, about 6 cups worth. You can see there’s a lot more in the bed and I will be trying to use up as much of it as possible. Yes, partly because I love spinach and am thrilled that I can now get it fresh from the garden. Sadly, also…
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The Evolution of a Vegetable Garden
Having a large vegetable garden has always been one of my life goals, and certainly factored into our choice of home. We arrived at our little farm in the summer of 2012 with plenty of optimism and plans, but not much in the way of experience or supplies. It was a pretty steep learning curve,…