Where did our summer go?!?

We honestly don`t know what happened.

First there was spring, then there was
some dodgy weather, then the fall was upon us. The weather is still shite and close to nothing has been done in the garden. Most of the lawn was killed during two weeks of hard rain and all that is left dark clay-like soil slowly being covered by
the fallen leaves.
We where lucky to have some swedish help this weekend and some trimming of trees was done.Now the view is, if possible, even more spectacular.

The evil brownslug was in overwhelming numbers this year and the few we off`ed won`t make much difference. We will use the winter to think up cunning traps to kill as many as possible, as early as possible when they return after spawning like the evil maggots they are. The battle is lost, not the war..

Enjoy the colors of the fall and have a nice day...

The lawn is here!

The lawn has begun. After two weeks the young grass finally appeared

The sunflowers has not shown yet, and might never, but some peppermint have been planted. Linn has arranged for some protective measures as the garden is infested the evil brown snail. I`m considering putting up a trap for them, but I`m reluctant because of what this might do to my karma.

Remembering the Fern.

The fern that was moved in early may has acclimatized itself supremely and looks quite strong. It has been hot and dry here in the city of rain lately so on todays to-do-list there is a lot of watering to be done including the ferns.
Fred og Hygge to everyone.

A fern (bregne) to remember!

Ferns are nice and we want to avoid upsetting them too much.


In the middle of the path around the house a fern had lived for several years.
We carefully dug it out and moved it to a perfectly shady place. Now, after a couple of weeks, it seems to thrive on it`s new location. The digging itself was pure pleasure and it showed that the trash we already picked up was not the tip of trash mountain.

Above you can see sjefens supreme digging technique.


It has started rolling out more branches and we are very optimistic about its future.
Say hello to your friends and have a nice day.

Sunflower fix and a strange cleanup session

The sunflower bed has new stones! The leca stones are now free to be used somewhere else. Haven`t got a plan for them, but i`m sure they will do more good somewhere else than looking ugly by the someday blossoming sunflowers. One of the stones has to stay for now as it is in a crucial corner protecting a drainage pocket.




Outside the kitchen window there where several plastic bags with bottles left there by someone living here years ago. Some of them had shattered by getting filled with water then frozen during the winter.
There where of course a lot of soil and leaves around the bags and there lived the biggest earthworms seen yet in the garden.






This is the earthworm Fleip-Andre. He-she is a big brother!














Yellow.

JIPPI!

We have reached 200 uniqe hits!

The sunflower corner

Cleaning up outside sjefens window revealed rich soil, sadly there where also old rotten plastic and other unidentifiable items positively bursting with asbestos. This was carefully removed of course.

We needed to have some use for the leaf/soil mix from the north side and a sunflower bed was the natural choice. The stones we used are, as you can see, not very fitting. The leca stones should be used somewhere else and we have begun gathering rocks by the trail to replace them.

Allting er så grått og trist(everything is so grey and sad)

The weather is scitzophrenic to say the least.
Warm, cold, snow, rain, hail, sun. No hurricane yet, but we won`t hold our breath. The thing that bothers us the most is the moist. The ongoing battle on the vines exposes bare ground and the soil is extremely slippery and washes easily away here in Bergen.
Therefore the plan to grow a lawn outside my window is in progress.
We need to build up a wall and fill in some pure earth and sow the grass.
Hopefully I will get around to posting some pictures of the cleanup behind the west wing and maybe a sketch of the ongoing lawn project.
Have a nice day!