carrots
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First pickling marathon finished
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Finally, I’ve finished with the pickling marathon. It has been almost a week of peeling, slicing, dicing, and jar hunting. I’ve used almost all medium-sized jars that I had at home and filled 110 jars of different pickled joys. While…
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Pickling season: Turšija
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One of the very popular pickled foods in Croatia is Turšija. Turšija(Torshi) is a Middle Eastern and Balkan dish, and it’s basically a mixture of different sour vegetables. The Croatian Turšija usually contains cauliflower, cucumbers, carrots, peppers, green tomatoes, and…
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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…
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Carrot harvest and fog
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It’s been a month now since we got infected with covid and the first time I went to do some actual garden work. I’m still not 100%, still coughing and a bit weak but I’m feeling much better. There’s still…
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Autumn is coming
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After a very warm and dry beginning of the month, and 19 days without rain it seems this week the weather will change. Although until yesterday the forecast was telling us we’ll be having another above-average warm week, yesterday evening…