I don’t feel like it…

But it is time to start sowing and look into what seeds I want this year. I’m not very inspired at all, the thought of being gawked at in the garden makes me feel like swinging a bat but maybe I’ll regret it later if I don’t sow something? But last summer I was barely in the garden at all. Not much joy in it I have to say…

Inspired

Inspired by “Monty Halls’ Great Escape” I want to cram in as many veggies in my garden as I possibly can this season. I have very little space however and growing veggies have not been going so well the last few years. To save space I’ll look into planting veggies and flowers together, then I can use my flowerbeds for the veggies and that will save a lot of time and work. (But one should never be lazy in the garden; it will come back and bit you in the ass. There are no shortcuts in the garden.)

THINGS I WANT TO GROW THIS YEAR
Potatoes: I did this a few years back with some old potatoes from the fridge and they were delicious! So I’ll get some proper potatoes and see what happens, got to make sure I have space for them though. To plant Kale with potatoes is apparently a good way to keep pests away.

Peas: There is as far as I know only one pea in the world that I can eat without feeling like vomiting and that’s Pisum sativum L. No idea what it is called in English but I’ll see if I can find some space for it in the garden. It needs a place to climb and there’s no space among the grape. After reading a little about the pea it seems perfect for Swedish conditions. First rules for easy gardening is to always work with nature and not against it.

Salad: I want to grow some sort of salad but I don’t know what kind. I have tried to grow salad in the past but with very bad results. So many pest and difficulties that it didn’t feel like it was worth the trouble. I’ll see if I find an easy salad and grow that one.

Carrots: Probably my favorite veggie, I want to have early and late ones so I have carrots whenever I want. I hope they are not too difficult to grow.

Chives: Which is easy to plant. Every now and then I buy one of those little pots in the grocery store and then I dig down the bulbs. I just read that planting chives with the roses will help prevent Black Spot on the roses. Love little tricks like that. Oh, and aphids is said to hate chives to it might help keep them at bay too. Lovely little onion chives!

Garlic: My favorite union, well I like leek as well anyway… Garlic is also a good thing to plant among other veggies and plants to help keep pests away. Avoid planting it with beans, peas and cabbage.

Kitchen garden

By accident I saw “Jamie at Home” and I just loved his garden. I would really like to have a kitchen garden and grow my own veggies but I don’t have a lot of space and I hate the new view which honestly makes me feel like physically hurt people. So no space and no joy to be in the garden and the fact that I have had horrible results growing things the last few years is preventing me to do it but I do want this in future.

Another show I was by accident (most things I see on TV is by accident) was… Monty Halls’ Great Escape where this guy Monty moves to a small place in Scotland (Applecross) to live as a crofter and lives right by the ocean where he spots otters and seals from the window… What a dream it would be. Does anyone want to move to Scotland and become a crofter with me and my dog? I'm almost serious.

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I haven’t done all that I should have done in the garden. I don’t like to spend time there now when there are people all around. Especially when it’s warm and people think it’s okay to run around in their tighty whities, ew…

The entire street is filled with cars and machines so the noise level is high too. And I get sad every time I have to look at these horribly ugly houses. Oh, one of the new houses have two trees left in their entire yard and that’s only because they are not allowed to cut it down. Then they have rolled grass, these big rolls of lawn so you have an instant green lawn which makes it look like a golf course. No bushes no nothing.

The other house seem to hate all living things and cut down their two trees (they are supposed to put back an equal tree because they were not allowed to cut it down but where will they find a 100 year old oak?) and have nothing living in their space. To cut down trees seems to be the latest thing, everyone is chopping down their trees leaving stumps, and some take away EVERYTHING, bushes, flowerbeds, everything and roll out a lawn. Soon this entire neighborhood will look like one big golf course… So so sad. I soon have to move, I just can’t stand these people. But… I don’t want to leave. It feels like I’m being chased away and that I’m giving up on my beloved home. All of these idiots flooding the place and destroying it…

Since the new trend of “lets fuck mother nature” I haven’t seen any squirrels around here, doubt I will ever see a fox here and there’s been no black or green woodpeckers… the heron has been spotted less than before.

Yesterday

Sowed a few seeds

Outside:
Baby’s breath Gypsophila paniculata
Papaver spicatum
Japanese poppy
Common vervain (verbena officinalis)
Blue vervain (verbena hastata)
Papaver amurense
Atlas poppy (Papaver atlanticum)
Papaver lateritium
Eastern purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Great globe thistle (Echinops sphaerocephalus)
Fuller’s teasel (dipsacus fullonum)
Ice poppy (papaver croceum)
Rooted Poppy (Papaver radicatum)
Spanish Poppy (Papaver rupifragum)
Alpine Poppy (Papaver alpinum)

Indoors:
Verbena Canadensis (which grow over night! I saw a little green guy making he’s way up when I inspected them today)

Yesterday

I was digging up the cuttings I had stored for the winter under the rhododendron (wow, I spelled it correctly!) and by the looks of it my azalea cutting has survived and looking well! No place to plant it but hey, a cute tiny little mini azalea is enough to put a smile on my face.

I did not remember to buy some rotting hormone though…

I only dug up one of my little storage places and mixed result. The things that looked very promising was, pampas grass and creeping baby’s breath. A tiny little thing was peeking up in a Physostegia Virginia but it could be something else. Anyway, placed them all in the greenhouse along with the cuttings and let’s see how it goes.

Spring time!

Last week snowdrops started top come up and now crocus, soon daffodils and tulips! It’s raining and I have holes in my boots. I want to go outside and work, and I might just after I finish my tea. I know I’ll break all of my (crooked) nails but I don’t care, my feet are going to get wet and cold but hopefully it will be worth it.