date:Mar 27, 2013
r we try new things, said Ernst, who even managed to grow a handful of strawberries that he served to some surprised Scandinavian royals. I first came here in 1999 and no-one would have dreamed of doing this. But now the summer days seem warmer, and longer.
It was minus 20 degrees Centigrade in March but the sun was out and the air was still, with an almost spring feel. Ernst showed his greenhouse and an outdoor winter garden which in a few months may sprout again.
Hundreds of miles south, som