A greenhouse in the making

I've wanted to have a greenhouse for ages and ever since we moved to our house the thought has been in the back of my head about where to put it, what it would look like  and what I would grow in there. And now this dream is finally coming true!

My sister-in-laws sister-in-law told me that she had gotten her hands on a bunch of old windows and had the idea of making a greenhouse herself but never got the time to do it. So then she asked if I wanted them and all I had to do was to persuade the boyfriend that a greenhouse was a great idea and off we went to pick them up! 

This unused part of the garden was the perfect location of the greenhouse!

The boyfriend did some really great blueprints, they were sent off to the building council to be approved and we went on with getting the grounds done with a little help from Tommy's digger and his paddingmachine. 

Building material was ordered and the council finally approved the application BUT not without being assholes about where the border between us and the neighbours are. We assumed it was by their fence but the building inspector claims that the border is 8 cm off the fence, but he didn't mark the spot so how am I supposed to believe him that he is right? So, we were too close to our neighbours but they happily signed a paper saying it's OK that we're 8 cm too close to their land :P

Then we finally got around to build the stone foundation with leca blocks and the boyfriend helped me on the first and last layer, other than that I did all the brick work myself. It's not perfect, but definitely good enough and now we've finally started to get the wood frame on there as well. 

It's dirty work to lay bricks :P

I will spend this winter renovating the windows and painting the door, then we'll hopefully get around to putting them in fairly early next year (just need to have painted the wooden frame white before that) and get the floor tiles collected from where they are now and then laid and we're good to grow :)

Hopefully the weather will be good on Sunday and then work continues! So excited! 

Winter crop

This year I'm trying something new that I read about on this blog (in Swedish) http://sandacottage.blogspot.se/2015/01/latmanstradgard-pa-riktigt.html?m=1
which of coz isn't a new thing at all, but new for me :) will be very interesting to see if anything will happen, but I really hope things will grow! I have probably put the seeds much too close to each other but one learns from ones mistakes I hope. But I'm sure it will grow a little bit at least.

Where did April go?

My Lady's mantle that I brought with me from my old flat is growing again :)

The old carpenterdesk moved out from the garage and became my plating table :)

Our little house in early April, before all the trees started getting leaves.

the ferns are peaking

the plants I had ordered from Horto Green arrived in a big box :)

and my long awaited red dogwood hedge was ready to be planted!!

All done :)

Easter came and I made a cake with inspiration from a baking group on facebook. My goodness, I just wanna bake every day from seeing what everyone else does, haha!

And to celebrate that the boyfriend and I had some days off together I made a smörgåstårta (sandwich layer cake)

I made some concrete stepping stones for the flower beds

a woodpecker came to visit :)

Good Friday was first spent celebrating my sisters birthday and after that we went to Hovs Hallar to have a walk down by the cliffs

the tulips bloomed

and what we think is a cherry tree was pretty

we finally got around to paint the panel the carpenters put up last year when we had the new windows put in

seeds have been sown

In the choir I sing in we have four parts, soprano 1 and 2 and alto 1 and 2, and I sing in alto 2 together with 10 very lovley ladies and every year we try to get together a few times outside of the choir practises to just spend some time together and talk and have fun. Just after easter we visited Inger in Skogaby and had a walk around the surroundings of her house. 

Skogabysjön

I made a bug hotel and am still looking forward to welcoming  some guests. I've tried to make it bumblebee friendly :)

Some of the hottest days of this year was measured and it was nice to sit outside for breakfast, lunch and dinner :)

The neighbours cherry tree is in full bloom

The ground elder had taken over the ferns as well and I couldn't bare to see it.

So I cleaned it up :P

Apple tree blossom :)

And we finally got around to booking a trip we've talked about for ages now :)