I have started building a garden this summer. This may seem peculiar. After all, we only have a small shed in the forest. I find it exciting, though, to take my garden plants from the town and try to create something which will conserve some of the plants in the garden we have in the town even if we move away. I have also bought a few new plants. The roses I bought have bloomed well, which makes me very pleased. We’ll see if they survive the coming winter.
I also bought three frames for my kitchen garden, painted them and filled with soil and compost. Then I planted chives, Welsh onion, lettuce, dill, mint, rhubarb and strawberries to see how they manage with sometimes weeks of our absence.
This summer I enjoyed the nature, its plants, isects and birds. I chased butterflies, spiders and grasshoppers with my camera. I witnessed a spider giving birth to numerous little spiders. I didn’t know that spiders can have different colours, too, or that a wasp would like to build a nest under the bed!
Once this summer, when I was at the shed alone, attaching more shelves above the chest of drawers we brought from town, I got lovely visitors. It was my mom, my brother and his wife. They came to see me from their summer cottage. It was their first time after we felled the trees and built the road and the shed. They didn’t stay long, just to see what we had accomplished, but it was heart moving that they came. It meant a lot to me. I burst to tears when they handed in their presents: wind chimes of an angel shape, the axe I had made myself in the technical work lesson at the comprehensive school (but already forgotten) and a basket which once had belonged to my grand-grandmother, who owned this piece of land.
At the end of this summer I harvested salad, dill, mint and onion. Not a bad start. A pity that the summer ended so quickly. (P.S. I don't know why I published this so late in the autumn!)
