The next day we started the trip properly and our first visit was to Château de Miromesnil. It’s a beautiful castle with a splendid kitchen garden. It is also one of the places I visited when I was a student and went to Normandy for the first time. On that trip I stayed with my...
Some years ago when we had horrible droughts, I swore I would never complain about rain. I’m not sure I made the distinction “during the summer”, but that was my intention. I didn’t complain about the rain this summer either, it was very nice to see everything grow with such vigor and I’m looking forward...
Garden Glory or to be more exact Gloria Garden (in Finnish: Gloria puutarha), the magazine, was published today. The Glory part is that the magazine features 34 pages by me and my colleague and fantastic garden photographer Hanna Marttinen! There is a 10 page story about me and my kitchen garden and 3 other stories...
I still have a few shots left over from November. My dilemma right now is that I want at least one nice garden picture from this month that looks suitably “Decemberish”. I’ve made a garden calendar (mostly for my mom) for the past years and finding a picture for December has always been the hardest....
This is no record breaker, but a personal best for me. The large one weighs 36,3 kg (80 lb and 0.44 oz), the small one 9,7 kg (21 lb and 6.15 oz) and Babe something in between ;-P The seeds are ‘Atlantic Giant’, unfortunately I was kind of late in planting my seedlings, but we had...
