While waiting
for the snow to melt, and the official start of the gardening season I am
reading as much as I can about gardening, looking at seed catalogues and
watching garden series on Netflix.
I live in
Norway, and am the humble owner of a little garden in the town of Holmestrand
on the Oslo fjord. According to the Norwegian Hageselskap my garden is a sone
3, that basically mean that there is a good chance for many plants to thrive,
though naturally not as much as in my native France.
I went to
the public library and picked up all the books they had available about vegetable
gardens for Nordic countries. Unfortunately there are just not that many written
specifically for Norway, most of the books available by Scandinavin gardeners
are translated into Norwegian from Swedish, or Danish. And while I love to look
at pictures of the beautiful kitchen gardens from our nearby neighbors, the
advice and time lines are not always applicable to my region.
So in my research
I have started to look up local bloggers, and subscribed to ‘Norsk hage tiden’.
With this
online diary I want to invite you to follow my adventures, fortunes (and
misfortunes) as I tend my little garden through the seasons.
Unlike the
persons in the Monty Don show ‘Big dreams – Small spaces’, I have no budget
set-up for the garden. Even though I love gardening and always had my hand in
dirt, attempting to make things grow, I am no expert and have a lot to learn - Something
I am very much looking forward to.
Do you have any favourite books, or blogger you can recommend ?
