transplanting

  • Tomato and pepper transplanting

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     When the thermometer shows 28°C(82.4°F) there’s no more reason to keep the seedlings away from the garden. The last frost date is May 15th, so there’s no more danger of sudden temperatures drop. This is why this week, while my…

  • First pepper transplanting

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     The last possible frost date in this region of Croatia is May 15th, still this year some of my seedlings just couldn’t wait so long. Some of the peppers started growing buds and turning yellow, and I decided that it…

  • Potato and brassicas planting

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     One big job never comes alone, there are always dozens of smaller jobs that need to be done at the same time as the big one. This situation followed me throughout the last week. While we were moving the soil,…

  • Planting new strawberries

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     There’s no better way to start the spring than with a new order of seedlings and bulbs. A few weeks ago, I ordered a fairly large amount of goodies from our Garden center Sieberz . This isn’t the first time that…

  • Seedlings week 8: more brassicas

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      After 8 weeks, the seedling shelf is now a small seedling forest. The seedlings that I’ve transplanted last week are growing well, and there haven’t been any lost seedlings.  This week I’ve decided to transplant my leggy brassicas to…