Carolina Reaper And Dragon Fruit Norway

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!