Plan for plants

Published on the blog Sacred Homeland in 2012


93 years old Grandma Irene worked as a farmer before she moved into the city in the 60s. Who could give us better advice then she, what we should plant in our first garden. According to Grandma, the plants that you need in a garden is:

Dahlia

Calendula

Carrot

Beetroot

Parsley

Dill

Onion

Sunflower

Sweet Pea

Potato

Sweet William (isn’t that a wonderful name!)

Peony

Radish

 
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Of course we want to be as green fingered as grandma so we bought seed bags with every plant that she had told us about (except the onion where we bought leek seed instead). Many of the seed bags was marked with the sign Kulturarv (Cultural Heritage) so we felt safe using those seeds when we should follow the advise from the older generation.

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And then it’s just the setting and waiting…

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Source:
Forskning & Framsteg, Bark – nyttigt och gott! 5/2007 http://www.fof.se/tidning/2007/5/bark-nyttigt-och-gott