Would you like seeds with that?

Do you know they have a drive-thru to buy soil here? 

There a number of big stores selling gardening and DIY stuff here.  Not like the whimpy, tiny stores back home.  Here, they sell everything you need to build stuff - wood in many sizes and lengths, cement, fences, gates, even tools like electric saws and drills and many sizes of lawn mowers.  You can drive your car through the back and load up on the wood or any other heavy stuff, drive up to the cashier, pay and drive home.  The bags and bags of soil are neatly arranged in front of the building and there's a drive-thru for that too. 

Looking at the lines of cars that were waiting to pay for their purchases, I could see that the Swedes love to do home improvement projects.  And looking at the gardens that I pass when out on my walks, they take their gardening seriously too.

Well, today, we drove thro and bought 5 huge bags of soil that costs just SEK 99 (less than SD$20).  We also bought some pots to replant the tomato and strawberry plants.  Once we got home, I got to work immediately.  I put one tomato plant into each big pot since they would grow bigger.  The strawberries I could plant together in one long planter.  I could only fit 4 small plants into the planter.  I guess the rest would be planted outdoors in the garden.

the strawberries

how the balcony is looking now

We can't go to the garden today since it's been drizzling the whole afternoon.  We also have  to buy wood for the raised beds.  Since we don't have the wood and since the weather is not co-operating, we have to stay indoors instead.  Time for TV.