Two photos, two seasons - To billeder, to årstider.
Wednesday 3rd we woke up to this sight. GardenOwl was NOT happy.
To speak the truth, neither was I. I had planned on getting the garden ready for seeds and for the small plants standing ready in my windowsill-nursery.
Og skal jeg være ærlig, var jeg heller ikke glad. Onsdag havde jeg regnet med at skulle gøre bedene klar til såning og udplantning af de mange småplanter, der kæmper om pladsen i min vindueskarm.
Thursday and Friday were busy days elsewhere. Saturday the 6th dawned. The sun shone, it was wonderful outside. I dug, raked, fed the happy hens not less than 60 litres of weeds -- they did not even think it too much -- and put seeds into the ground.
I only dug one bed, the freshly dug one. The three cowered with straw were dug ealrier with great help from the Writer, and the one nearest to my dome is still filled with weeds -- you can hardly see it is a bed.
NB. jeg ordnede kun ét bed, det med frisk jord, dem med halm ordnede jeg godt hjulpet af Skribenten i forrige uge, og bedet nærmest domen er stadig kun ukrudt - man kan da dårligt se, at der er et bed.
GardenOwl was smiling, and so was I.
I'm sure you can find loads of Water blue in GardenOwl if you look close.
Well done on all your garden work. Exciting times ahead. And of course the chooks appreciated the weeds.
SvarSletThank you and they sure did!
SletYay for gardens! My brother has got me started with potatoes this year, with a rather elaborate setup, which I hopefully will not break. We got the potatoes actually in the ground yesterday so we shall see.
SvarSletPotatoes and elaborate seems not to click inside my head. One of the simplest crops in my garden, but one I'm ditching this yera in favour of dyeplants. I wish you good luck.
SletIt sounds like a bit of a garden setback. It cannot be fun to wake up to snow right after you've planted.
SvarSletLuckily you misread, snow on Wednesday, sowing on Saturday. But it would not have been that bad, because it was only a light snowfall, no frost would have reached the seeds.
SletFreed from spam-prison, once again!
The weeds will give your chicken lovely strong coloured golden egg yolks. I dream of having that much garden space, but after no gardening for over twelve years now, I don't think I would cope.
SvarSletI coan't cope either ;) But I love doing it. We have a "wild gardening" movement in Denmark, and I happily joined.
SletMy dad used to plant lettuce seeds in late snows, and then by the time the snow melted, the little shoots were coming up for early lettuce. For some reason, I think of that whenever I see snow in a garden this time of year.
SvarSletOh, great idea. I'll hurry and get some lettuce (and maybe radishes) sowed.
SletPoor garden owl.
SvarSletIt is one of the very few times he has seen snow. It was not much, and not for long, luckily.
Slet