Shoots and leaves...
The whims and woes, highs and lows, of trying to grow fruit and veg in Nordic latitudes.
Some years Midsummer is all about standing around a midnight bonfire in wellies and waterproofs. But some years the sky is so blue and the air is so warm, it is magical. This year we had the sunshine, a supermoon, and a fierce wind that felt like the Mistral. At Rosendal the water crisis is over, the recent rain has brought everything on - we picked our first strawberries (outdoors) yesterday. And put netting over them all! The blackcurrant bushes in Ovanträsk have hardly any fruit this year but up at Rosendal the older bushes near the house are covered. Not much action in the raspberries, neither in the wild nor the cultivated ones. But the newly planted blueberry bushes (mustikkapensas) are covered in fruit.
0 Comments
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
July 2020
|