The Greenhouse,

is about growing matters, focusing on my greenhouse and potager. I grow mainly vegetables, herbs and spices but flowers have their given place too. From seed to table, this is the nursery for my living food, we cook a lot of delicious food and I say a potager is the cook’s best friend. The greenhouse makes it possible to grow essential, colourful, warmth loving fruit and vegetables even in this climate such as tomatoes and chillies. My main blog is Tyras Trädgård/Tyra's Garden. View my profile

Saturday

Rose Collage

Just a collage of one of my favorite Rose. It is a very fragrant bush rose with roses in many different colours, from the creamy pale yellow, through the apricot hues to a lovely pink colour.

Unknown name unfortunatly, I just call it my Watercolour Rose

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Namnet är okänt tyvärr, jag kallar den bara för min Akvarell ros.

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TYRA


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Tuesday

ABC Wednesday

This weeks ABC Wednesday is in Tyra's Garden



Your find it here

Ops! / TYRA



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Wednesday

Unavoidable finding i Tyra's Garden

This post, 'Unavoidable finding in Tyra’s Garden' - was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog The greenhouse in Tyra's Garden http://tyras-greenhouse.blogspot.com/
Chickweed -Nate på svenska
ABC Wednesday and this weeks letter is U
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Unavoidable Chickweed
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Våtarv på svenska eller Nate som jag kallar den för det hörde jag min mormor kalla den. Det här måste vara en sann kulturväxt :-)

Chickweed among my spinach


Unavoidable finding – it sure is…

Stellaria Media – an unavoidable finding in gardens all over the world. One of man’s most faithful companion someone said and I think that is true. This pretty little flowering plant is perhaps the most common weed, a ‘cosmo-political plant’, perhaps un-exterminatable. Well sometimes it feels just that it’s hard to get rid of, but I have a suggestion!

Tips and ideas -EAT it. This is one of the most delicious and tender wild plants, really tasty. Next time put it in you mixed garden salad, in your sandwich, wok or pasta. Enjoy your unavoidable finding.

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Take care my friends - don't be a stranger!

TYRA

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Saturday

Cucumis sativus 'Marketmore'

This post, 'Cucumis sativus Marketmore' - was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog The greenhouse in Tyra's Garden http://tyras-greenhouse.blogspot.com/
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Cucumis sativus ' Marketmore'
Aooo.. I have harvest my first cucumber of 2009 and you bet it was tasty!
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This is the first time I grow this Cucumis sativus 'Marketmore' and I must say I like it. I think it will be perfect to make a Greek style salad and tzatiki with later on this summer. I hope the yield will be satisfactory, I have it in the greenhouse and I don't know if it is to hot for this one. Well we will see.




LOLove/ TYRA
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Wednesday

Time for Tea & Toast and my friends the TOMATOES

This post, 'Time for T' - was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog The greenhouse in Tyra's Garden http://tyras-greenhouse.blogspot.com/ABC Wednesday this week it is T for ...Tomato.
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Time for Tea & Toast and my friends the Tomatoes!
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This week’s letter on ABC Wednesday is T as in Tyra no...my T just has to be TOMATO.
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Tomatoes are some of my friends in the greenhouse, yes they are my friends. I have just been out having my breakfast there, Tea and Toast. while doing some tomato pollination :-) Late last night I made a nice loaf of what I call country-bread, a rustic loaf made with sour dough, wheat of spelt Triticum spelta, rye whole flour, raisins and a bunch of nuts and seeds.


T as in Tea and Toast.



Now to the tomato, they are coming along just fine in the greenhouse, I have a lot of flowers and a few small tomatoes, still green of course. The biggest one is Solanum Lycopersicum’ Cherokee purple’ a heirloom and this is how the flowers looks like. This tomato is a beefsteak type tomato, dusky red in the colour with green shoulders. It is the first time I'm growing this Cherookee purple and it is going to be so exciting to see how it turns out.


This is a collage from last years tomatoes.

I have made a small evaluation of them here:
Tomatoes Tyra's Garden 2008




Early history


Aztecs and other peoples in the region used the fruit in their cooking; it was being cultivated in southern Mexico and probably other areas by 500BC. It is thought that the Pueblo people believed that those who witnessed the ingestion of tomato seeds were blessed with powers of divination. The large, lumpy tomato, a mutation from a smoother, smaller fruit, originated and was encouraged in Mesoamerica. Smith states this variant is the direct ancestor of some modern cultivated tomatoes.
According to Andrew F Smith's The Tomato in America, the tomato probably originated in the highlands of the west coast of South America. However, Smith notes there is no evidence the tomato was cultivated or even eaten in Peru before the Spanish arrived.
Two modern tomato cultivar groups, one represented by the Matt's Wild Cherry tomato, the other by currant tomatoes, originate by recent domestication of the wild tomato plants apparently native to eastern Mexico. This text ‘Early history’ is from wikipedia.
Read more about the most fascinating story of this plant here


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Have a great Wednesday my friends!

LOLove Tyra







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