Shoots and leaves...
The whims and woes, highs and lows, of trying to grow fruit and veg in Nordic latitudes.
It's that time of year again and I got two new books. Actually one of them was a present from me to me but the other was from Peter! This one came from my visit to Mary Kuusisto's incredible garden in Tenala, Raseborg. She grows exotic plants, mostly in pots, which live indoors through the winter and gradually move outdoors for the summer. When I was there I saw lemons and melons and a vast selection of edible plants and fruits that I had never seen anywhere before and certainly not in Finland. I bought a Stevia plant (used as a sweetener, a substitute for refined sugar) and Mary gave me a Purslane plant in a small pot which flowered in our polytunnel the day after I got it! I have since bought some cucamelon seeds (Melothria scabra) which I will try and grow in the polytunnel, taking them indoors for the winter and hopefully getting fruit next summer. We found this book at Sara's Secret Garden shop in Fiskars. A great find! Lots about foraging and also some easy recipes. I think I will start with the yarrow because we have plenty of that.
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