Garden diary

  • Preparations for season 2022

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     What was supposed to be this year’s project was prolonged to next year. I’ve always wanted to have a garden surrounded by tall and jungle-looking flowers but never had the time to do it. I wanted to make flower borders…

  • Second crops extend gardening season

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     Usually, when we plan a gardening season we mostly think about the first part of the season. We carefully plan where we’ll place which vegetables and buy seeds to fill the garden. But what when we start to empty the…

  • New seed delivery and sowing autumn vegetables

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     The past week I ordered a bunch of seeds and some plants online. The first delivery from “Pšeno” arrived a couple of days ago and yesterday I got my order from “Kuća biljaka”. A first I was really surprised by…

  • Harvesting almost everything

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    Although we had a really cold spring and long heatwave vegetables are growing without any issues and my harvests are getting bigger and bigger. Beans did suffer from the extreme heat and they stopped producing flowers, but Blauhilde pole beans…

  • Another season- another cosmos jungle

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    Although a few weeks later than last year, my cosmos jungle is finally growing and filling up the garden.  I absolutely adore garden cosmoses. They are such an amazing plant, they spread easily, flower throughout the summer, and return every…