Garden
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Garden Diary: small potato harvest
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I had a lot of extra soil and a couple of old buckets, so I decided to plant some potatoes. This week I finally decided to dig them out. The results were not great, but with the drought and heat…
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Garden diary: Summer in my garden is over
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With the first September days, the summer in my garden is over. Sunny hours in are reduced to only two or three a day, and the constant forest shade is keeping the dew on the beds. In very dry conditions,…
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Garden Diary: August review
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After an extremely hot July, August had been hot, but with a couple of cooler days. Usually, in this part of Croatia, summer is over around August 15th, and this year wasn’t different. Our mornings are now much colder, with…
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Garden diary: after rain visit and harvest
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This week we finally got some much-needed rain. It wasn’t too much. We got 20mm of rain over 48 hours. The slow and steady rain managed every drop to be soaked in. Still, even with the continuous rain, the garden…
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Garden Diary: Still dealing with drought
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Gardening has been really hard this summer. Continuous heat and watering could be the entire description of the past couple of months. Still, we’re making slow progress and have good veggie success. Continuous drought The past week has been as…