An impatient gardener
An overview of learning to garden in a Nordic setting, along with a description of what grows when.
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Our move to the countryside
Better being at Bastubacka
- Sep 24, 2022
- 4 min
The flash that was summer
It started with the ants, and it ended with the swallows. The first time I remember looking at the garden and thinking, "Now it must be...
- Aug 21, 2021
- 3 min
Surprises in the wild
As newcomers to the second home experience, there is definitely an excitement about returning to a place we left behind weeks or even...
- Aug 6, 2021
- 4 min
Oh deer. How does your garden grow?
The task of gardening looms large before us. There are all kinds of creatures out there, from ants to deer and everything in between....
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Giving up secrets
Moving into a new house, especially one where other people have lived for a long time, requires pulling back layers to figure out how...
- Aug 1, 2021
- 4 min
Restarting a garden
It's not that we are starting from scratch. There was a garden here. And I have gardened. It's just been a while. For about 15 years now,...
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