garden
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What are you grateful for today? Maria
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Welcome to the weekend coffee share! What can I get you? Coffee? Tea? As you can see we are at my allotment garden. It is finally time to start transferring the plants from our winter sowing. These plants where started outdoors, from seeds February 21st. They have never been inside and therefor they are more…
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Welcome to the Weekend Coffee Share. How is your week? I’d say that I’ve had a great week so far. I worked three days, had school one day, and three days off. We still have freezing nights most nights, but the day temperature is slowly getting higher. When I rode my bike up to the…
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It is cold and it is snowing! Can I get you a hot beverage? Coffee? Tea? How are you? Are you enjoying some well deserved time off this Easter weekend? I am enjoying a long four-day-weekend with my daughter. Yesterday I spent a lot of time outdoors. This morning I decided to do some things…
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Today I am grateful for this Easter weekend. I have four days off work to enjoy with my daughter, and the things that are important to me. Today I had a long conversation with one of my best friends, another long conversation with my daughter, went for a long bike ride, and finally spent some…
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Judging from the picture above this might not look like much…but it is! It is my oregano surviving the winter in a gardening zone it shouldn’t. Last year my herb garden did very well. In my part of Sweden the majority of herbs are grown as annuals. My oregano plant looked strong and I decided…
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Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – Progress
It’s starting to grow! What are you grateful for today? Maria
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Weekend Coffee Share – Let the fun begin!
Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Or tea? It is snowing outside.. and I started planting seeds yesterday. What? Why? Isn’t it a bit early, you ask. Well, I only sow seeds that benefit from the natural cold stratification to trigger germination. I have them outdoors in…
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Even though I enjoy gardening immensely I have never owned a vineyard like the one in the photo. I have however enjoyed spending time in other peoples vineyards, like this one in Napa Valley (CA). When my daughter was a few months old we leased a house here over the winter. It was magical to…
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In this Daily Gratitude Practice 2026 I’ve decided to share some of my favourites in the garden. Crops that I love so much that I keep growing them year after year. Crops that I am extra grateful for. One of these are green onions, or leeks. Just like the Ishikura I wrote about yesterday they freeze well,…
