DIY Natural Healthy Granola recipe

My favorite natural, very healthy and colorful granola recipe is has been created by doing it very often. It tasted and smells really fantastic! You have to try it yourself...

You need:
5 dl rye and/or oats grains (2,5 dl mix is the best)
3 dl grinded cocos
1 dl pumpkin seeds
1 dl sunflower seeds
2 dl coarsely chopped hazelnuts
4 ts  cinnamon powder
2 ts cardamom powder
1 ts kurkuma
1/2 ts salt
2 dl honey
2 spoons water
3 dl mixed dry fruits (for example my favorites russin, mango and goji berries)

How to fix it:

• Put the oven on 175 degrees
• Mix all dry ingredients except honey, the mixed fruits and the pumpkin seeds
• Add the water and mix the total
• Put the mix on a baking tray and spread half of the honey above it
• Roast it in the middle of the oven for 5 minutes
• Take it out, shuffle the mix and put the other half of the honey on it
• Put it back again for 5 minutes each time and take it out and shuffle again.
• Ready after 5 minutes and mix it
• Take it out of the oven
• Add the dry fruits and the pumpkin seeds
• Let it cool down, some time.

Total baking time is about 15 minutes, it shouldn't be too dark then it gets bitter.
Delicious as a cereal in your morning yoghurt!

After some time you will make your own favorite recipe out of it, bij trying, changing and making it better each time 😋 Good luck!

Dreaming about plants

Today we have the perfect time to dream about gardening. When you have the Corona virus moving around and the weather is not as good as last weeks. T too bad for getting out and do some garden jobs outside. So today I made a small garden design for my neighbors. Just a circle of plants in the middel of a nature garden in Småland Sweden. A beautiful, flowery spot the year around without too much maintenance. With plants who can stand heavy hot sun from the south but also severe winter days in Swedish zon 5, so hardy as well. (oeps Sweden has its own numbers in climate zones, warmest is 1 and coldest is 8)

I love new creations in the garden, like painting with plants. I love to see nature growing, it makes me happy. It is always going on, no matter what happens. Whole my life I felt the connection with gardening and plants. My father told me all the latin plant names, as if they were Dutch common names. I got used to it. But it also filled my heart with pleasure. I can forget everything, working hard to maintain or just dream how to make it look better.

And you know what? We want to make it our future!

DIY Creating a hide away

We have been very busy last months. We got a new sewer. The result was a totally ruined front garden. We got tree concrete reservoirs for the sewer and a infiltration bed. No one could miss it, even if you tried very hard. The must ugly things I have ever seen in my garden. So now we try very hard to hide away this thing. It was a though job to do. But when we see the result of today, maybe the garden is even looking better then before.

What did we do? Actually we changed the ground, so you will not see it is an infiltration bed anymore. We higher-ed up the ground where the concrete sewers were. We created a hat out of willow and birch. And created a oval border with plants around it. We love it!

Do you want to see what happened before in our garden? Take a look here 😃