We've made our monthly groceryshopping and cleaned the entire first floor. I shouldn't be surprised that I don't have strength enough to water the gardens. After all I've got a flu and have less strength than I usually have. But it irks me, it really do, since I can see that all plants are thirsty. Tomorrow I'll take another day to just clean up and make everything easy and fun to care for.
As for my harvests I can now take 100g (3.53 ounces) tomatoes every other or third day. I've only harvest cuttings once, and that was 40g (1.41 ounces) which may sound little, but it filled a litre (1/3 gallon) so I got enough for a (small) family sized sallad anyway.
Last but not least; we may not have won the Eurovision Song Contest, but a swede won best in show at Chelsea Flower Show. Ulf Nordfjell designed the Daily Telegraph Garden at the show, and you can see it on the first picture here. Thing is, how should I celebrate this? Hmmm... a cup of herbal tea and a sandwhich, I think. Tallyho!
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Growing vegetables? Indoors? Is that even possible? Yes it is! Question is, is it possible to grow an amount big enough to feed a family of three? Follow my experiment in this blog
Where should the indoor gardener live?
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Why do vegetable gardening indoors?
Because I think vegetable gardening should be an option even to those living in a flat. In addition to that I like my sallad fresh and A: I tend to forget it in the fridge and then find it when it's all rubbery and soft (ie. unedible), B: at least in Sweden the sallad isn't really fresh on the shelves in the grocery store. Since I spent my childhood weeding on my own little 'kitchen garden' I prefer to grow stuff in containers. That gives you control over the soil - at least as much control as you can get.
The cherry on the top is that homegrown vegetables reduces your ecological footprint, and that I'm able to make culinary excursions in the Big Kitchen Garden.
The cherry on the top is that homegrown vegetables reduces your ecological footprint, and that I'm able to make culinary excursions in the Big Kitchen Garden.
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My adopted nursery
Funbo Plantskola
Framtidsvägen 1
755 97 Uppsala
Phone: +46(0)18 36 31 54
Opening hours:
mo-fri: 10.00 - 18.00
sat: 10.00 - 15.00
sund : closed
Homepage only in Swedish, but do have good pictures from the greenhouses and the garden displays. If you read swedish you find helpfull advice and good links. Included in the assortement are exotic plants like wines and figs as well as old swedish cultivated plants. For an international visitor this is to be considered off the beaten track and low level interesting. However the place is worth a picknick, bring your own basket and buy icecream there. If you visit the place in summer during extended weekends (thu-sun) you have the chance seeing the steam trains of the historical railroad pass by.
Instructions on how to join the campain for adopting a nursery here.
Framtidsvägen 1
755 97 Uppsala
Phone: +46(0)18 36 31 54
Opening hours:
mo-fri: 10.00 - 18.00
sat: 10.00 - 15.00
sund : closed
Homepage only in Swedish, but do have good pictures from the greenhouses and the garden displays. If you read swedish you find helpfull advice and good links. Included in the assortement are exotic plants like wines and figs as well as old swedish cultivated plants. For an international visitor this is to be considered off the beaten track and low level interesting. However the place is worth a picknick, bring your own basket and buy icecream there. If you visit the place in summer during extended weekends (thu-sun) you have the chance seeing the steam trains of the historical railroad pass by.
Instructions on how to join the campain for adopting a nursery here.
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2 comments:
Hope you feel better soon.
I think one of my problem is a very slight case of the flu too. Not bad enough to say I'm sick - but enough to drain some of the energy out of me. I feel/look like a toddler too with a runny nose.
Same to you! Garlic and ginger are said to work against flu - I don't know how much there is to it, but a tea made from fresh ginger puts hair on your chest (and tastes good). :)
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