Matching colors! My first harvest from Oak Hill, fresh sprouts that I was able to harvest just a few days after closing on the house. I'm eating them on crispbread together with blue cheese and pear slices. I just love crispbread, it's the perfect afternoon snack together with a nice cup of tea.

We decided to keep the house a secret at first. I'm going to write more about our children's reactions when we told them later. They love the house! This is our first breakfast together in Oak Hill Cottage.

Oak Hill Cottage is only 2 miles (around 3 kilometers) away. I take the bike on warm days. This is my new office!

One of the first tasks was to create a nice backdrop for my online course about growing beans and peas. What a fun project!

I'm planning the layout of my new cottage garden. It's so much fun! I have been longing to create a brand-new garden. I'm so excited to see how it's going to turn out. The water hose outlines my future bed.

Plenty of people wanted to know what I was up to when they passed by the house. At first, the idea was to make the cottage garden in the backyard, but my friend and colleague Maria Fors Östberg persuaded me to do it here instead. Why not show the world after all?

Oak Hill Cottage is very small, and our dog Kuling is very large. Not the best combination! We keep him in the hallway when he's inside, but there's plenty of room to roam outside. He usually stays at home with my husband Philip when the kids and I stay over at the house though. Such homebodies!

Our friend Håkan came over with plenty of new wood chips for the new garden, fresh from the local sawmill. I have plenty of little helpers and it didn't take too long before the wood chips were in the right spots. I really recommend using wood chips in the garden. It's easy and super convenient!