Shoots and leaves...
The whims and woes, highs and lows, of trying to grow fruit and veg in Nordic latitudes.
I dug up some "Timo" (new potatoes) for dinner and they were absolutely wonderful and a good size. We had them with some West Chark sausages from their new store in Pojo. We were so busy haymaking today that there wasn't much time to do anything else. I did weed the carrot tunnel and the onions and I planted out the kohl rabi (which I had sown in seed trays in Espoo). The rain is keeping the garden wet but the cold weather is not helping the fruit and veg situation much. The french beans are not doing well at all and I have given up on the parsnips. i would quite like to start again but couldn't find any packs of seeds in the shops. On the other hand, the sprouts are doing OK, it was a good idea to give them a windreaker. In fact we are thinking of erecting a windbreaker around the whole of the vegetable garden. Only four strawberries ripe to eat. It's a bit (very) frustrating to see so many GREEN strawberries on the bushes. At this rate most will rot before they get ripe.
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