I haven’t been near the computer in a couple of days now, not meaning I haven’t been out on the web because I have the phone 🙂 We’ve had a rather wonderful weather here. To be honest after this winter most weather varieties is rather wonderful but we have mostly had sunshine, over 10C (50F) and very little wind so I have been able to have the kitchen door open until the sun slowly hides behind my neighbours cottage. It will take a couple of weeks before it pass that cottage high enough so it still reaches my garden.

Today however started with a nice fog. It took a while before the sun showed itself because when the fog clouds rise they block the sunshine but warm days they usually evaporates fairly quick. I started the day with walking out to the forest to release a little mouse that got caught in the box trap. I think it is the same one I caught two days ago because it didn’t show any signs of stress, it already knew I would let it out somewhere not too far from home sweet home 🙂 🙂

Last autumn I chopped all the tree and bush branches I had cut off while pruning and I used them to try and suffocate the stinging nettles. It worked quite well but do You know another thing it does quite well? It preserves the frozen ground from thawing 🙂 So yesterday I had to remove lots of it from a couple of trees and bushes so that the deep frozen ground finally could warm up. I also watered those areas to help with the melting. Why You might wonder? Well it is warm enough for some trees to start with spring activities and they want to grow but the ground and therefore the water is frozen so they risk dying. This will not happen to older and well established trees and bushes because if their roots haven’t grown deep enough by the time they’re a couple of years old they’ll not survive anyway.

I have also started to make the new vegetable garden around the greenhouseThe ground was, on the sunny side of it, deep frozen just 5 cm (two inch) down but after yesterdays sunshine and todays it had thawed up so much that I could start removing most of the grass. It wasn’t that good on the shadowy side but even there I could remove the grass in the end. Before I put up the greenhouse there were mostly wild roses growing there plus a few perennials who had spread there on their own so I moved all the grass (and moss) to the old vegetable garden and every time I dug up a perennial I dug them down in that grass.  I have most likely also dug down some stinging nettle roots but I’ll deal with that when that problem starts 🙂

In between when I took a couple of breaks I’ve watched Paralympics. I still can’t understand how someone completely blind willingly throw themselves out in a downhill race!! They do of course have a guide with them but still they can’t see anything!! Also the guide must be slightly better than them since it would be bad if they suddenly couldn’t keep up 🙂 Well it is time for that last cup of tea for the day. Tomorrow will be a slightly less nice day, slightly cooler, slightly less sunshine and perhaps some rai n in the evening. Sounds like a day in front of the Paralympics with lots of rose-hip soup 🙂

Have a great day!