North by North

This morning there was frost on the ground even on our hill and the ceps in the forests were frozen solid. Oh well, we have eaten and dried quite a lot of them so no great damage done… Fortunately we picked last week some 10 litres of cranberries and made jelly of them. Cranberry picking [...]

A few bats only and we like them… Year after year we mutter that we have far too much garlic growing ; then we think of beans with garlic, garlic potatoes, garlic cloves in honey – garlic anything -  and plant a few more. Now we have harvested them and they are in the open [...]

To be exact: 147.3 kg at the moment – and counting… Only a part of the bounty fitted into the photo… There will be a lot more Bonbons (the dark green striped ones), a few Hooligans (the small cream-coloured ones), all Baby Bears (they are still green and we are hoping they’ll turn bright orange), [...]

In June – after a loooong cold spell – we at last planted the climbing French beans (Goldfield and Algarve). They were definitely nothing to write home about and – infringing the Pollyanna copyright – I warbled to Pekka not to worry: if we just get enough beans to eat fresh in the summer it [...]