Papa is Back in Summerhouse and Gardening in Norway
In between posts from some fabulous weeks South of Norway with Friends and Family, I need to update my readers on the situation here in our Summer House.
It's been an unusual Summer. Cold, then very very hot and then very unstable and wet and chilly. Our Garden is the best proof of out of line.
After all, we did harvest this Sunny Sunday.
You can see some results if you scroll down:
Blue Grapes.
Boyson Berriesh
Yellow Flowers
Redcurrant
Gourgettes - Zuccinis - Squash
We love these charming Flowers- Do you know them. Appears in several colours.
Hips - wild. Beautiful red color
Prunes - still there - lots of them this year. But half of them rotten.
Prunes ready for be Jammed -In Fact about to be cooked
The old Pear Tree broke down 4 weeks
ago.
Well - we used the Brances to heat - in our Fireplace - the smell was magnificiant
Beans - Green
Hortensia.
Well, my dear reader, this was a short glimpse into our Sunday Afternoon.
Have great week to come----
It's been an unusual Summer. Cold, then very very hot and then very unstable and wet and chilly. Our Garden is the best proof of out of line.
After all, we did harvest this Sunny Sunday.
You can see some results if you scroll down:
Blue Grapes.
Boyson Berriesh
Yellow Flowers
Redcurrant
Gourgettes - Zuccinis - Squash
We love these charming Flowers- Do you know them. Appears in several colours.
Hips - wild. Beautiful red color
Prunes - still there - lots of them this year. But half of them rotten.
Prunes ready for be Jammed -In Fact about to be cooked
The old Pear Tree broke down 4 weeks
ago.
Well - we used the Brances to heat - in our Fireplace - the smell was magnificiant
Beans - Green
Hortensia.
Well, my dear reader, this was a short glimpse into our Sunday Afternoon.
Have great week to come----
Labels: blog, flowers, gardening, summerhouse, toraa
posted by TorAa at
9/06/2009 10:06:00 pm
10 Comments:
Hello Toraa,
You have been busy. Most interesting blog. Love Norway. Our summer was the reverse, hot at first then cold and very wet. Thanks for the comment on my blog and for the email.
Fenniexx
wow, the colours and tastes in this post.... outstanding!
Our garden is still producing. Tonight we will have fresh corn, perhaps an eggplant sauteed, boiled potatoes and Norwegian Haddock!
The long yellow flower looks like either Goldenrod or Ragweed. The smaller red one that comes in all colours might be porchelacha??
Love the grape photos...you could send them to a wine company to put on their labels!!!
We had a wet cool summer until 2weeks ago and we've had beautiful weather and will have for the next full week. I love the fall! we are still sleeping in the upper porch summer bedroom!
And we in Belgium were really spoiled this summer. It was one of the best ! After a few days of cooler weather 17°C and rain, we are back again into 26 today and probably the rest of the week ! I hope it will last until Christmas !
All such wonderful pictures of your garden goodies Tor. I love the grapes and berries....look delicious. We started out the summer very hot and then the end was chillier then we expected...and sooner than we expected too. It looks like we may start fall early this year. Take care Tor....
So colourful there and what a great harvest I must say.
oh my mouth is watering now!
And you get all of that from YOUR garden, at your fingertips? I'd be in heaven!
Hi there,
I'm living in south west norway, Rogaland but i come from Australia originally, so establishing my garden has been a huge learning curve....This year I grew sunflowers in my garden from seedlings....I am very proud of that, and are just now cutting them down as they have now wilted....I could take out the seeds and prepare them to eat but as I'm leaving soon I wont bother. They were hard work to grow. I also harvested blueberries from my 2 bushes, though only 1 is producing, and our first victoria plums from the 3 year old tree, but they were spotted and a little red, but tasty. Today i am just tidying up the garden in preparation to return to australia for a few months. So I can see you are very good in your garden so perhaps you can advise me....I need to move some plants, small bushes that are growing big and crowding the garden bed. When is the best time to move them here in SW Norway...now or early spring next year? I have been googling and they say late winter early spring in the USA, in the north, so i would think early spring, They say the 2nd best time is now....Autumn...what do you say...its hard to find gardening advice in Norway in english on the net....
I have or had a blog here too about my geneology which includes norwegian roots. But I will have to look for it as its been a while...maybe its even gone, but i doubt it very much. I have been to my family farms and its been great and always finding more people in that family tree. Anyway, that's enough for a comment. lol.
Thank you.
Lisa
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