Indoor Gardening
Well, last post was about my memories and excperience with fishing. Now that's something I can talk for for hours and hours.
The same doesn't go for gardening, but I still love it! I've watched so many youtube videos about gardening, mainly videoes made in the US, but I forgot about a really important detail when I first started.
The main issue I have both indoor and outdoor half the year is the sun.
In early summer, there's to much sun. Sun rises in the middle of the night and sets late at night. Plants don't have enough time to regenerate in the dark, so growth is slow.
In the middle of winter, the sun rises early in the day and sets 3-4 hours later. Not enough sun to give them enough energy.
Thet's why I started with indoor gardening. In the winter, it's cold and dark. Something green to keep me sane is always good to have.
I have a tendency to grow things that are more of a "trophy" plant than anything else. Avacado, Ghost pepper, Bananas, Carolina Reaper, Dragon Fruit, Lemon etc.. Not something you will get much fruit on indoors or use for much food. But fun to be able grow grow to a certain level!
The strongest, the biggest, the wierdest is always fun to grow and see if I can make thrive in our home.
Outdoor Gardening
Last year, I set off to build my first ever raised garden beds. We took down a few pine trees in our yard, and I mulched down every single branch on those trees. I was fasinated about the "Back To Eden" garden method, and though I would give it a go. It made a lot of sence to me the whole idea of using woodchips on top of the soil to hold on to the moisture longer, and the worms higher up in the soil. I had so much woodchips left over, that I used a lot of it to make a pathway between the beds, just to tidy it up a little bit.
So far it's not been working much, but I do think I know what the error in my system is.
When I built The beds up, I put a thick layer of wooodchips at the bottom to break down over time. My thought was that it would supply as a sub-nutrient store for the roots that could grow that far down. I'm sure it will turn out fine in a year or two, but right now, what I think is happening is that the nitrogen in the soil is being used to break that lower level of woodchips.
Growth is slow, but for every year that passes, I learn something new. 
Upcoming Projects
We're planning on building ourself our own greenhouse or plant nursery. We hope to build that this fall, and if that happens I will give updates as long the build lasts!
With that, I can get the plants started a lot sooner than I'm able to right now, and hopefully start to get some real production going!
I'm learning more every day about this theme, and hope to reach a certain level where I can contol my garden and the pests that lurks in it to a certain level.
Not much information to share in this one, but rather a quick recap on what I've been up to in terms of gardening!
I'll give you a little landscape photo to gase over just as a little treat for you who scrolled all the way down here ;)
Thank you for reading!
Your photos are making want to book another flight! I love your gardening adventures. You will find a way to make it all work in Norway!
I hope Øystein posts lots of photoes from our area - would love to see you here again! And that would also give us some expert help with the greenhouse!
Haha! Yes it is on my list of things to do... Visit Norway Again!!
@Oysteinholand, this is a great post. Your gardening adventures are inspiring. I love your picture of the avocado. Do you start many from seed? Are avocados easily available in Norway? I have three trees growing right now that I started from seed. The first one I started with toothpicks and water, the other two I just put into the soil. I love your raised beds too. One day I may go to those. Right now my gardens are ground level, outlined with landscape timbers, and topped off with wood chips. Finally, is that your village? What a beautiful scene. Thanks for posting. Wonder if Blake has room in his duffel for a stow away next time he visits you! Haha
I've only started two or three avacado seeds with the toothpick and water method, and yes, luckely we have easy access to avacados! :D
That's a small village a few kilometers away from here! They have a pub we go to sometimes when it's hot and we want beer and icecream ;) I would love to see your garden one day, and I'm sure he could fit you in on hes next trip! ;)
What a beautiful photo. Someday I would love to visit Norway.
You really should! It is so wonderful. My trip last Summer to Norway is among my greatest memories!
I can't always see the beauty of it since I see it everyday, but @daddykribs said it so beautifly when they visited.
"You have to travel around the world, just to see how beautiful your home is!"
I thought that was well spoken, and it stuck with me :)
your pictures would make great post cards . what's the tallest tropical plant you've managed to grow so far ? I once grew a Banana tree in Newfoundland indoors to about four feet sadly it never flowered so I never seen any fruit. thanks for sharing
Tallest is probably a Avacado tree that is now at 1.10 meter tall :)
Biggest were my banana tree that sadly died this winter because of lack of light I suspect.