Kitchen garden

  • autumn,  Kitchen garden,  summer

    A Future Sunset Part 3

    This is the last part, so here goes… Tässä on nyt viimeinen osa… Det här är sista delen på det här inlägget… In the first picture: Some Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum ‘CaribbeanCrush’ looking a bit light / hiukan vaaleana / i sin ljusaste variant) would fit the scheme / krassit sopisivat / krasse skulle passa This Hemerocallis is waiting for a move / tämä päivänlilja odottaa siirtoa / den här dagliljan väntar på flytt  Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ and one of the best pictures I’ve ever taken (in 2004 or something with a very simple camera): perfectly co-operating butterflies and a really nice hybrid of Dahlia ‘Bishop’s Children’  Dahlia ’David Howard’ of course /…

  • Kitchen garden,  media,  photography,  summer

    Late Summer

    This picture is my entry to Gardening Gone Wild’s Picture This competition for this September. This is a link to the same picture that allows the picture to be saved. I had a hard time picking my entry, I like the picture above, I just wish it would be a bit better technically. Still the dahlias lined up in a fantastic way and the weather was co-operating, so I’m mostly pleased. The picture is a few years old and taken with my old camera. I’ve cropped it a bit and I’ve removed a small bug in Photoshop. It took a few tries to get the light right in the background…

  • autumn,  greenhouse,  Kitchen garden

    Tomato Time

    This is the harvest from a day last week. I’ve never had a crop like this! Really tying up the plants and for once taking good care of them has paid off. In the picture is “my” tomato ‘Malinowy Henrika’ (Henrika is my first name, the tomato was a find in Graines Baumaux’s catalogue), ‘Choclate Cherry’, ‘Sungold’, ‘Galina’, ‘Tomatoberry’, ‘Sweet 100’, ‘Stupice’ and probably a few more. The last picture shows today’s harvest; some ‘Chocolate Cherry’, ‘Galina’, ‘Sungold’, ‘Golden Cherry’, ‘Whippersnapper’ (with the funny spur) and ‘Tomatoberry’  with a few ‘Malinowy Henrika’ and ‘Stupice’ underneath and just showing. This is more or less clockwise starting with ‘Chocolate Cherry’ which is…

  • Kitchen garden,  summer

    Gardening for Food

    Before this becomes a clematis blog, I’ll get back to one of my favorites types of gardening, i.e. kitchen gardening. On one hand, this is my favorite time of the year: you can harvest the best food – the food that you’ve grown yourself. The other day I got inspired by a trip to a restaurant. I therefore decided to put my more than generous crop of tomatoes to good use. I used all the tomatoes in that first picture and some more, all the vegetables, two onions, some Jerusalem artichokes, red wine, a little chili pepper and some deer that my dad had hunted and made a stew. It…

  • greenhouse,  indoor,  Kitchen garden,  media

    The Final Fair Pictures

    I took some pictures in the mornings before the fair opened; my 50mm lens gave some interesting shots. I’m new to the lens, but I’m beginning to see the point of it. I still have a lot to learn, since I can see what isn’t quite right in several pictures.. Otin jonkin verran valokuvia Kevätpuutarhamessuilta aamuisin ennen kuin ne varsinaisesti avattiin, sain mielestäni ihan jänniä kuvia 50mm objektiivillani. Se on suhteellisen uusi hankinta ja alan vähitellen oppimaan sen etuja, mutta näen myös selvästi mitkä asiat eivät aivan täsmää näissä kuvissa.. Jag tog en del foton på vår avdelning på mässan på morgnarna före den öppnades, jag tyckte att en del…