garden
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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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Dried green mix and endive
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There’s nothing better than a home-dried herb. The taste is always much stronger than the store-bought ones, and you can mix the herbs you like. I used to dry my herbs separately and had a bunch of small jars 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…
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Watering the overheated garden: When and how?
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Watering the plants is one of the essential chores in the garden during a heatwave. But when is the right time to water our plants? Can we do it whenever we want? Or will the watering affect our gardening results?…