Still spring

Bad weather on Saturdays continued. The wind was blowing hard bringing showers every now and then. It was too cold to do anything in the garden. This is unusual at this time of the year. Anyhow, I went to my usual walk to the forest.


Oxalis acetosella

Some new spring flowers were trying to blossom. There was Oxalis acetosella (ketunleipä, käenkaali), which is edible and has some vitamins. I remember eating it as a kid when we were playing in the close-by forest. 

 

Then the first pink wild blueberry flowers had appeard in the forest. There's plenty of wild blueberries on Kemiö Island, last summer we picked several tens of liters of them. 



Bloody dock

In the garden the Bloody dock (Rumex sanguineus; viinisuolaheinä) surprised me. I bought it last summer as a salad and then planted the rest not used in the salad. I thought that will die in the winter, but it is perennial and doing well after all that snow and frost we had last winter. There's also plenty of stinging nettles (Urtica dioica; nokkonen) popping up under the bushes. I decided to make a nettle soup on Sunday night, the first try ever.

Sunday, the second in May and Mother's Day, was luckily sunny and +13C. I spent all the day out of doors, planning what to do with the flowers and herbs during the summer. The men came to install the pier that was taken on the shore for the winter, so now we are ready to welcome the summer (except for the boat, which will be brought in June). Actually, there's a lot of things to be done in the house before we'll start the summer. Our upstairs bathroom is being renovated and that brings a lot of dust allover. There'll be a lot of cleaning before the holidays can start.