tomatoes

  • Tomatoes have never looked worse

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    This year has been a real disaster for tomatoes. First, as I wrote before my tomatoes were struck by Pythium rot caused by infected soil, then the May cold did a number on the seedlings and their height and the…

  • Ljutenica- tomato and pepper relish/spread

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     August is the month in which I spend most of my time in the kitchen. I already wrote about Ajvar which I made last week and this week I’ve decided to make ljutenica. Ljutenica(Lutenica) is another popular Balkans side food, a…

  • Neverending (weeds) story

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    Where there are vegetables there are also weeds. But, this year there are more weeds than vegetables.  The rainy summer we’ve been having is making me weed every single time I get in the garden. I rarely get the opportunity…

  • When you finally had enough of the seedling terror

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    There is nothing more frustrating than to keep having the same problem in the garden year after year. Especially when you had perfect results for years and then out of nowhere suddenly nothing goes as it should.This is what has…

  • I don’t have enough room…again

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    The seedling season has just started and I’ve already got space issues. This year we only place in working order one of the germination boxes because we came to the conclusion that my old green coffin is just too old…