• indoor,  media,  video,  winter

    I’m Gardening on TV

    I got a call yesterday and was asked to be on the Swedish speaking morning show Min Morgon. They were interested in current gardening tasks. It’s still very much winter here so it was either repotting, growing herbs indoors or starting plants from seed. I went with the two latter. I you are in Finland or use a VPN service like the ones my expat friends like you can see the show here until the 24th of February. I’m on at 14:40 minutes in and babble away for the next ten minutes. EDIT: You can’t see it anymore Minua pyydettiin eilen mukaan FST:n Min Morgon aamu-ohjelmaan. Heitä kiinnostivat ajankohtaiset puutarhatoimet.…

  • 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…