Garden
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2024 review: Hot and stormy
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With the beginning of a new year, we usually look back at the year behind us. This 2024 in our garden has been challenging. With lots of work, in the end, things paid off. It can always improve, but we’re…
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Garden in July: hot and stormy
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July was above-average warm, and, of course, the warmth brought us a couple of severe storms. But, even with the damaging winds the garden was thriving. Warm and stormy After the past year, which was insanely stormy, and brought us…
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Expanding the garden: trying to get more sun hours inside the forest garden
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When you’re surrounded by forest you try to adapt as much as you can. The lack of sun made us expand our garden to the most sunny areas. It was a difficult task, but now, after half of the season,…
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Garden diary week 5: Cleaning up the yard
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The past week, after a couple of weeks of snow and freezing weather, we jumped into spring-like weather. This brought us out of the house and we’ve started with garden work. It’s still too cold for sowing and planting, but…
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Weekly progress week 2: Snow and first seedlings
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Snow is becoming a rare event here in Croatia. Although we had at least a couple of snowy weeks a year in previous decades, this is changing lately. Last Friday, we got our first decent snow, and of course, it…