Sara's Kitchen Garden – Organic Gardening and Self-Sufficiency Blog

26. March 2023

Guide: Buying a polytunnel

Polytunnels are such great growing spaces! Many people ask me about how to pick the right one. Read this guide to buying a polytunnel to learn how!

Fint bröd med färskost på rödvitrutig duk.

Cream cheese with spring herbs

I'm using the fresh spring greens in the garden to season my homemade cream cheese. It's definitely one of my favorite spreads!

Läcker rödbetsröra som blir knallrosa i färgen.

Traditional Swedish beet salad

I love using beets in my cooking, it's a beautiful splash of color on the dinner table!

19. June 2022

Gardening Calendar: What I Sow in June

I started to harvest the vegetables in my beds and now I have some empty spaces to fill. That's why I'm sowing new seeds! Keep reading to learn more about what I sow in June.

17. June 2021

5 useful vegetables in my garden

I want to grow a lot of vegetables in my garden so I try to fill any empty spaces that show up in my beds as soon as I can. These are my favorite useful vegetables for this purpose.

30. April 2021

Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: Growing Blueberries

What could be more luxurious than picking delicious blueberries from your own garden? Read this guide about gardening for beginners to find out more!

20. March 2023

New series: Tomatoes from sowing to harvest

I love growing tomatoes! In spring I sow many different varieties, I love the rich diversity in tomatoes when it comes to the way they look and how they taste. In this new series, we follow the tomatoes from sowing to harvest.

14. March 2023

Chitting potatoes indoors

Chitting potatoes is a great way to get an early harvest. This batch of potatoes have been chitting for about 3 weeks. What do they look like now?

05. March 2023

Gardening Calendar: What I Sow in March

It's time to start preparing for the season! I put all kinds of seeds in every available spot in my garden. This is what I sow in March!

24. February 2023

Garden DIY: Creating New Garden Paths

Making new garden paths can be complicated, to say the least. But I have found a method that works really well for me. My garden paths are cheap, easy to make and close to completely weed-free!

Ett fat med färgglada vackra blommor bredvid varandra.

20. February 2023

How to grow everlasting flowers

These colorful everlasting flowers are pure bliss! We have a tradition here in Sweden where we put the everlastings between the inner and outer windows in our homes. It looks pretty and helps absorb some moist between the windows too.

13. February 2023

Growing rhubarb from seed

It's time to grow rhubarb! Growing rhubarb from seed is a great way to get plenty of plants for the rhubarb patch in your garden. The seed viability is really good!

04. February 2023

Gardening Calendar: What I sow in February

Sowing early means an early harvest too! The plants might not be big and fancy this time of the year, but they still taste really great. This is what I sow in February.

27. January 2023

Winter sowing spinach in January

I did a January sowing of spinach and I'm hoping to get a nice harvest in April, or sooner! I decided to start sowing spinach in a miniature greenhouse and I hope this will give me a nice head start.

23. January 2023

Guide: Using wood chips in the garden

This is one of my favorite materials to use in the garden! Wood chips are both extremely useful and also quite pretty next to the bright green plants. Learn all about them in this guide.