Shoots and leaves...
The whims and woes, highs and lows, of trying to grow fruit and veg in Nordic latitudes.
Beautiful weather. Warm, dry, sunny. And the nicest thing is that T,S & F are all here too. It was a semi-lazy day. All the farmers are busy in their fields, but we just needed a break before we could get started. It was too breezy to put the plastic over the polytunnel today so we didn't even try. I walked up to Rosendal to fetch some carrots and some parsnips from the root cellar. Found a lonely teabag in the kitchen up there so P & I had a cup of tea in the sunshine. Tom hammered all the fence posts in for us: when the ground freezes the fence posts are pushed upwards so in the spring they all need to be hammered in again and the best time to do it is in the spring when the ground is still soft. We saw some HUGE spring hares in the birch wood, they were enormous and not bothered at all by us. Good news. it means the lynx must've moved away. We've also seen plenty of cranes, two large flocks flew over in the evening. Also whooper swans, Canada geese and mallards (on the pond). Not as tame as our resident couple in Espoo - Mrs Mallard actually knocked on the kitchen window on Thursday night while we were all having dinner and waited while we hunted for some bread- Stef sat on the deck feeding her and she was still there over half an hour later when I was clearing up. Along the ditches the willow is in full bloom and covered in bees. We also have butterflies. In the evening we had a really nice sauna and then I fell asleep... a combination of anti-histamine and too much fresh air!
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