Lingonrundan skördetid (Harvest Time)

More info about Lingonrundan Harvest Time

 We are open Saturday and Sunday (10-15). 

Dry weather? Open garden 26 & 27th of August (öppen trädgård)

 

Come and have a look at our garden now, when the weather is good. So without any rain. It still feels like autumn. It's getting normal for weeks now to be in a low pressure area where it's raining all day for more days. 

It has been growing so much (because of all the rain 🙈), it's unbelievable. The good thing is that our grass is looking green again. At some places it's too much. So we have some damms on places where we never had one. Some plants had difficult years before because of the dryness, but are flowering fantastic now. And guess what, I never scored sooo much Cantharelles as this year (on a very secret place of course. Or blueberries and wild raspberries, plenty of them. Good news when you like them, like me.

But at the other side: now I can't stop weeding and cutting the grass on the moments when it's dry, when I'm ready in the back I can start in the front again. So hard times when you travel sometimes...

On the former empty fireplace we have been planting Lathyrus, Hollyhock (Stokrozen or Stockrosor)  and Tobacco plants between the Sweet Williams (Duizendschoon or Borstnejlikor) this spring (you can see it in the July post). Now the plants grow more then 2 meter high.... The Sweet Williams started flowering, later the Lathyrus started followed by the Tobacco. The final is these weeks for the Hollyhocks. 

Blomstermorot

We should like to welcome your and show your around. So you can see the results of hard working yourself. We like to meet you in our garden, while you enjoy an outdoor fika (coffee and a homemade cake). 

Don't you have the opportunity to visit us this weekend? Or maybe it's too bad weather? No worries, we will be open next weekend too!

Holiday time

 

Semestertid.... I just picked the black current for today, only lots of blue berries left in the forest. 

We take it easy right now... But the växtloppis will be open all the time, maybe you will hit something special when you are driving by anyway 😎. Enjoy your holiday!

Land öppen trädgård / Open garden

 

Javisst, vi ska bli med igen 😊...

You are very welcome to visit us outside of Vittaryd (also on Saturday 15 July 2023 by the way or the weekend before 😏). Just to walk around in the garden, enjoy the view on the lake or have a typical Swedish Fika på landet. 

You will find us at Sjöbygget 1, Vittaryd. (From Vittaryd church towards Skällandsö/Bolmen. After about 4 km the first red house at your left side (just after you see Flyxen lake). I'm looking forward to meet you,

With regards

Brün Arntz

Open garden 17 & 18 June 2023 (but Midsommarweekend closed)

 

It is still wonderfull in the garden. Allthough it have been very warm dry weeks. Now it's not longer allowed to water the garden and there is a firestop as well (so no BBQ and open fire anymore because of the firerisk). That means the grass has turned dry and yellow. The plants in pots survived till now because will have been carrying lot of watercans, even in the plantmarket at the streetside. It's a dilemma too, I want to be carefully with water too. But when all plants die I can close the garden for this year...

The lovely Finnlandrose -you see above- is already finished. A little quicker as normal, because of the heat. But now the peonia's started flowering, it's parfum is very strong and impressive. And what about the Papaver "Pattys Plum". All around the daisies (alias "prästkragor") are flowering, like they used to around Midsommar. It's unbelievable we reached the longest day again. But before I start thinking about Christmas I want to enjoy the summertime even the days will get shorter and darker.

Till now it looks like we managed to keep the hare out, at least not all the plants are eaten like last year. We are happy for that because we spent a lot of time to make chicken wire around the total garden twice ((the first round seemed to be not high enough or the hare learned how to jump 😜). 

Next weekend, the Midsommarweekend we will be closed for celebrating ourselves. We wish you a very happy Midsommar!

 

Växtloppis always open

By the way... the växtloppis is always open 😉

Outside our garden we have a växtloppis (plantmarket) where you can find seedlings and cutting for sale which I have been growing last months. You are welcome to take a look even when the garden is not opened. 

Outside our garden we have a växtloppis (plantmarket) where you can find seedlings and cutting for sale which I have been growing last months. We have some annuals like Cosmea, Verbena and Tobaccoplants. But also Salvia (lila), Big Campanula's, Jacobsladder, Goatbeard, etc. Every week I will have some new stuff. 

You are always welcome to take a look even when the garden is not opened. 

Open Garden Times

Next weeks in June, July & August we will have open garden nearly every weekend (on Saturday & Sunday from 11-16 o'clock). Of course it's depending on the weather too, because we only have outdoor places. So when we have time and the weather is good, we can open extra. But with very hot or rainy cold weather it's not making sense to open.
 

Outside the garden you will find a small plant garden with some seedlings and plant cutting I have been growing last weeks. I'm very proud to show my garden to people. I'm trying to make it look like former days with grandma's plants, like the Midsommar Rose or the Hungarian Iris. So feel free to walk around or just enjoy the surroundings form a comfortabel seat in the middel of the garden, close to the lake. We also serve some small coffee & cakes. 

Please follow the actual announcements the week before on this weblog, (Facebook) or Instagram (Sjobygget_Tradgard). Feel free to visit our private garden in one of these weekends. We are very happy to meet you 😉. 

Time for Lingonrunda 3 & 4 juni 2023

 

Soon it's time for Lingonrunda again. You are welcome on a lot of places (Lingonställen) in the Western part of Småland. It's a network with more then 100 places to visit. Among them are musea, shops, farmshops, arts & handcrafting, flowers, vegetables and design. Mostly small companies or enthousiasts with a hobby. The products are produced in the neighborhood. There is something to find for every one!

Sjöbygget Tradgården will join this event in June too!

Have a look on the website: www.lingonrundan.com. Some have opened the year around, some only in Summer but most of them open at the special event day. You will recognize them with a special flag.  

Suddenly it's summertime

Suddenly it's summertime al over the place... Four weeks ago it started, beginning of May, nice temperatures, very sunny and mostly blue skies. Perfect!

We have been working on hare prevention... Maybe you remember last year the hare has been eating al my Salvias, Campanula, Lathyrus and a lot of plants more. Even the Clematis what was already some meters high and would start flowering. Also the seedling I have been growing for months. So we made a totally new fence around the total garden. We thought we managed but after some weeks we found out that the hares had been learning to jump. So in a new round we made an higher fence, totally around the garden again (this time with the help of my brother and his son 🙏). Till now it seems to work but we keep our fingers crossed. 

Now, beginning of June, it's getting warmer and warmer even at night. I've already been swimming a lot of times in the lake around the corner. Also no midgets yet, maybe because of the dry weather. But the broms (sort of horseflies) already arrived 😬. They land very sneaky and before you know they start biting painfully. 

Also an other problem showed up again: it's sooo dry. The grass already got yellow. We need to water the plants very much and every day, so they can survive. Special the ones in pots, just planted or the ones in the plantmarket (växtloppis).

Buzzzzy springtimes again

Spring.... or summer already? The weather changed beginning of May, we got finally warmth and sun. Suddenly we had summertime and we touched even more then 20 degrees. In only three days later all the trees got green again! It was also the sign for the start of the busiest time of the season, like always for a gardener. Now, all jobs needs to been done at the same time. 

Before I kept all the small plants inside because it was still frosty at night until then. So I forwarded most jobs around the young plants till half May. I put out the toughest seedlings on the veranda, so they had some shelter but still could adapt a little to outside climate at the same time.

I only took the risk with planting outside some climbing Ipomea's in full ground (because I would have visitors and no time for planting next week). I wanted them to grow already so they would have some body beginning of June. But I was punished for that, too quick. All 40 died. I need to sow them again, this time directly outside. By the time they will start to grow, about a day or 10, I expect the temperatuur will be above zero. 

At the same time I'm so happy I've been trying to fix all other possible jobs what needs to be done (as far as possible) before opening the garden beginning of June again. We started already in April to make an extra fence of chicken wire around the total garden, to protect the plants against the hares. Last year it was a tragedy. All my Salvia's Verticilata, Papavers, the small fresh sowed Lathyrus plants, the big Campanula's (Stor Blåklocka) and some other in the total garden were eaten off each time they tried to get up a little. The hares were like an unwelcome grass machine in the total garden. The worst of all was the Clematis, which I was so proud on because it grew perfectly in Spring, two meters high already. It was cut off at the bottom and didn't recover that year. 

We have also been busy starting up the robot called Herman. Every year a surprise if it's working. Mostly not. Because the line is broken somewhere around in the garden. So you have to check all the lines, which is quit a lot in our garden. The easiest way is to take some hours or an afternoon without stress. The good news is we managed it again, "Herman" is running around again. So we only have to cut the outside parts by hand right now once a week. 

The weeds are starting to grow too, so now I need to weed the whole garden, for not getting behind. That will only take more time. Mean while I'm fixing small plants for selling by getting cuttings and moving the seedlings form the plugg trays to a bigger pot. Some parts in the garden need also a reshuffle. Extra handicap is the sudden warmth, not very suited to replant or move plants. Beside of that I have to water all the plants (special for them in baskets) to keep them growing.

By the way, some planting pots are already filled up for the season. Maybe it is a little too early but I just cannot do all in the last days before opening. I'll have to bake some cakes, fix some chairs and announce the garden on the socials. So if you don't mind, I'm out in the garden again...

Not only summer weather by the way 😏