July 2025
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Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I offer you a cold cup today? The weather is a little too warm for my likings, close to 30C/86F. Earlier today when I was standing outside of our house saying goodbye to my son I noticed an elderly lady struggling with a huge grocery bag looking like…
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Most summer days I arrive to my allotment garden before 6am. It is a 7,5km/4.6mi bike ride one way for me to get there. Yesterday morning I saw a gorgeous fox cross the trail just ahead of me on my way to the garden. The fox looked so healthy in his shiny red coat. When…
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Can I get you some coffee? Or tea? If we were enjoying our coffee and conversation outside I’d say that ice coffee or ice tea would be a good choice. Or if you’d rather I have a fresh batch of lemon-rhubarb lemonade in the fridge, perhaps you’d like to try some? This is the second…
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Today was the day when it was finally time to pick berries! I love having red currants in my yoghurt and smoothies. They are sour, even when they are ripe. My daughter don’t enjoy eating them straight from the bush (perhaps that is an acquired taste) but she loves the jam and lemonade I make.…
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This is today’s harvest of the sugar snap pea “Norli”. This is what it looked like when I came to my allotment this morning. I wrote about how my daughter and I love the Norli variety last week. To be honest, the harvest is so abundant that it seems like it is never ending. At…
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I told you in a previous post that I am keeping a close eye at my berry bushes to discover when the berries are ripe (hopefully before the birds discover it.) Today I discovered that some of the red currants (and black currants) are ready for picking. The red ones are so refreshing! I love…
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I have three big hanging containers at my balcony. I often grow a mix of herbs in them, but this year a colleague asked me if I wanted some tiny petunia plants. She had been too optimistic when planting seeds and discovered that she had way too many. I said yes, and she gave me…
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One of the most important keys to a sustainable, successful garden is companion planting. This is especially true if you have a small space to work with, like an allotment garden. My current garden is only 200 square meters/0.0494210763 acres and I try to make the most of the space. I have a mix of…
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Therador is perhaps my favourite variety of garlic. I LOVE the taste, it is not sharp or pungent, still intense but with a sweetness to it. It is a soft neck garlic (the ones you can braid,) an early variety that is easy to grow even in more challenging conditions. In my experience this variety…
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