@brittarnhild
We took over the cabin at Easter 2000 (my parents had built it in 1976) and one of the first things I started to do was to make a garden. Very slowly in the beginning, a tiny little bed with a tiny little rose.
Already the first year I met the challenge.....how could I take care of a garden when we were away for weeks at a time during the hottest, dryest periods of the year.
Over the hears the garden has grown, a little piece of new land cultivated every year.
The cabin garden is simple, consisting of roses and herbs, and also one cherry tree, one plum tree and one red currant. A few strawberry plants, a forsythia shrub and a few perennials.
The birds love our cherries, our red currant and our strawberries. So far we´ve had no plums.
We love the birds and don´t mind them eating our berries.
Butterflies and bumblebees also love my garden, and we love them.
This year has been extra challenging for the garden. We´ve been away for weeks, and it did not rain for weeks.
All the roses have survived, but their flowers are tiny and few.
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We are spending a few days at the cabin, and yesterday I spent a couple of hours weeding, watering, adding fertilizer, talking with the plants. And one thing I know for sure - as long as I am fit enough to weed, my cabin rose garden will survive!
