clovis guilloton

here you can see a hot raising bed build on a top of horse manure compost in spring , here salad , onions , alfa-alfa , and pumpkins , before the salad we have grow raddish.
you can see that it s on a totally no fertil sandy soil , that why we had to use lasagna bed and raising bed , behind have be same technique for carrots , we got around 30kg carrots in 6m long and 1m large . we had to build all our soil there , we use all that we had , peat + sand + horse and goat compost and ash and some time the silt from lake bottom .potatos we used lot of the technique of growing in straw for can plant them more early.

Hi
i known Your Challenge, Where i lived before in Lapland , we had the same problems, sometimes under 0 degrees in July for some hours. And lasagna bed it's a great solution. If you have access to horse manure (fresh) in spring, ones very great solution it's to build a hot compost and put 30/40cm of your growing soil on the top , the best its to put a protection on the top , greenhouse plastic for example, we have use every spring that techniques for plant who need a longtime for grow, you can almost win one month of growing season with that.
PS:strange you had succeeded with quinoa and not with amaranth, try again I think

Clovis

some part of my garden from finland

hi markku
if you are from ikaalinen we live close , me and my wife had live 12 years in sevettijärvi , but this spring we have buy a small farm between isojoki and honkajoki , its will be nice to meet you one day , we have make permaculture technique in lapland but not easy for lot of things specially for winter food for animals , we have horses , goats and ducks. we start then , again here with really more and bigger projects.
will be nice to meet one day

clovis and heli

Hi
I have lived in Lapland for 12 years in the border of Norwegian and Finland, I have use to build lasagna bed and growing vegetables on top of hot compost with some protection for the cold , very good for carrots, peas , salad and all fast growing vegetables, if you like other types of fast growing food, test: Saracens, amaranth, some cereal grow in less then 3months , some race of quinoa to , also parsley and others roots if you give them very rich soil or compost lasagna it's best , greenhouse with 2 cover will help a lot to .

Great project and great job
congratulations from Finland

hi nicola

i have live 12 years in lapland ( sevettijärvi) , but now me and my wife , we have sell our place there and buy a small farm next isojoki eteläpohjanmaa . we have a project of a farm almost in self sufficiency , we have 2 horses , 7 goat , ducks and cat , we mix permaculture and some techniques from biodynamic.
if you pass next our place welcome to visit us

clovis

Hello
if you still search a place , and are interesting for the Finland , I can help you , here is have a lot of old farm to sell for ,not so much money, but I am doing sorry can't help for Sweden and Denmark.
have a good luck in you search

Hello from isojoki(Finland) where we have , me and my wife, started a self sufficient farm project based on permaculture and biodynamic farming just with horse powered.
we will love to share with others people

hello

me and my wife have buy a small farm in finland ( eteläpohjanmaa) , and have a self sufficiant farm project , based on permaculture and biodynamie) , we work with horses , have goats and ducks and lots of projects .we just move here this spring after 12 years living in lapland where this have be to difficult to build that project .
if somebody are interresting to contact us : who live close , or pass througt this area ...... welcome to visit our small farm project.