Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

Just another garden project

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Summer in September. The very best thing you can do on a Sunday afternoon then, is to start on a garden project. With Terje as my garden apprentice, expert on digging, I am making a new extension in a corner of the main flower bed.

First some digging to remove plants which has become too big.

One moved away, another one into the new bed.

And here it is. My plan is to fill it with a collection of lovely blue gentianas, inspired by my visit to the botanical garden in Tromsø.......by the way, I am working on a post from there in Caffe Avec tonight.

 

 

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Jippi!!! The post from the arctic-alpine garden in Tromsø is up in Caffe Avec

 

The garden in late August

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My busy garden workers

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I have the cutest gang of garden workers.

They are busy, running here ands there, up and down.

 

Sowing is their passion,

and most of all, sunflower seeds.

My busy garden workers are the squirrels :-) In spring and early summer they put sunflower seeds everywhere. I weed most of the seedlings, but a few are allowed to grow. Which means there are many sunflower in the garden now.

 

View through a kitchen window

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I love the view through my kitchen window tonight.
And I love the man who has filled this wheel barrow.

 

 

 

A couple of weeding hours

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A couple of hours of weeding in the afternoon, and wonders happen in the flower bed.

I am sitting here now, realising I have muscles I never knew I had.

Still fit enough for a late walk in the garden though.

 

 

 

The old, problematic flower bed

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On the eastern side of our house there is an old flower bed. Already here when we bought the house in 2001. Already then overgrown with weeds.

Every second day I say to Terje, let´s try this, let´s try that. The other days I say, let´s just remove the whole bed and plant grass instead.

Now I have got another idea though. A good one I think :-) I will remove all the old plants and make the bed into a primula bed. Or a primrose bed as you would say in English.

That´s what I talk about in the video today :-)

 

 

 

Bigger pots

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My hundreds of tiny plants need repotting

 

 

Sowing time in the green house

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With the lovely weather which continues, I am tempted to start early with the sowing. I know that there might still come nights with frost, but I don´t have room for all the pots indoors. I have an oven in the greenhouse which I can turn on during the cold nights, so hopefully it will be okay. I also believe that the plants will develop to be strong and stubborn with this start.

 

Of course the sowing is perpetuated at YouTube :-)

 

 

 

Winter Coat for the Roses

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We have already had the first nights of frost, so when our little grandson came to see us today Terje took him out to put a winter coat on the roses.

A thick layer of pine needles around the necks of the roses,
and they should be well prepared for a long, hard winter.

The potato farmers

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From my kitchen window I can see out to the green house and the potato field. Late September means it is full time to harvest the potatoes.

My father has a path in our field where he grows three different types.

Two of the men in my life. My husband. My father. Working side by side.

The everyday pleasures,.
Life can´t be much better.

 

And one day soon I will make potato soup.