They are showing a brittish gardenprogram on swedish television this spring from an ekologikal farm. I like it a lot, but there´s a little problem with it I think as with many other programs like this, they alredy have perfect conditions in every way. For someone totally new in gardening this can be overwelming and they woun´t even try to grow anything after seeing this program. But for us that has been around for a while understands that one doesn´t need an upper class farm in brittain to grow ones own tomatoes :-) But I have to say that I wouldn´t mind having that farm, because it´s fantastic :-)

At least the surface on the pond is ice free now. But this pond was frozen to the bottom so I don´t think that it´s totally free from ice yet.

What I really would like to see is a program showing peoples allotment gardens. I don´t know if You outside Europe knows what that is? It started over hundred years ago, in Brittain I think, when they saw that people in the cities didn´t have enough money to buy enough food and then got deficiency diseases. Then some people got the idea that if people in the cities could rent small pieces af land to grew their own vegetables that would lead to a healthier life and how true that was. Anyway, I would like to se programs about that. Sweeds that have an allotment gaden usually grow more flowers than vegetables today, so I would prefer that they showed our immigrants allotment gardens instead. If any one knows how to grow vegetables it´s them.

This bird is called Kaja in swedish. It´s a close relative to the crow and raven. Nowdays it´s forbidden to have any swedish wild animal as a pet, but before that law I had a Kaja. It´s one of the most funny birds one can have, but they smell awful. Learns to talk almost better than parrots. Have I told You about my Kaja anytime? If You want to know about it just tell me.

When I lived in Gothenburg one of my favourite things was to walk around on the places where they had allotment gardens. In some places they have allowed tiny, tiny cottages, but mostly it´s just a piece of land to grow what ever one wants to grow. The best places were filled with all sorts of vegetables, toamtoes, potatoes, onions..... and when I found such a place it was immigrants that had that garden. I wonder what their secret were to get those hughe harvests. I´m not totally unaware of how to grow vegetables, but I have never even been close to what they got :-)

Some ditches where the sun wount reach still have some ice left on the surface. Teodor just had to test it today :-) All went well even if he is a bit heavy nowdays :-)

My own tomatoe seeds have now become small plants and are ready to get pots of their own now. Every seed germinated and soon I´ll have to decide how many I can keep. This year it´s seeds from cherry tomatoes I bought in the store some weeks ago. I usually don´t want those seeds we can buy in the stores here. They are hybrids and those tomatoes usually don´t taste as good as older sorts. But there is a tomatoe club where we can buy other old sorts from and they taste delicious. Mostly old russian sorts but also some old sorts from north America and Europe.

To get some ourselves from other countries outside the EU is forbidden. There are some tomatoe diseases we still don´t have here You see so thats why it´s not allowed. The same goes for potatoes too and there the rules are even strickter. I´m not allowed to take potatoes (unless they are cooked of course) from Denmark over here because of the same reasons. But to be honest I don´t think people knows that here :-)

The first flowerbuds on the crocuses are now showing above the ground :-)

Well today it´s clody again and some rain is comming they say. Typical! I washed the floors yesterday and wacumed and cleaned the carpets from everything the dogs brings in. I do that quite often otherwise too, but this time it felt like I cleaned out winter so to speak. I even bought a new floor mopp because of that :-)

Remember the ice on this ditch that I showed You a couple of days ago? Now it´s gone :-) But they say that there will be more snow and below freezing point in a couple of days.

Well now it´s time to think of how my little wall greenhouse should look like. In my mind I can se an octagonal one, but I don´t know if I can find the tools I need to do that. I have a special saw that can cut the timber in the right angles for that, but I think only God knows where I put that :-)
Be good!