seedlings

  • Violent weather change

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     After almost a whole month of sun and drought, this weekend brought us a violent weather change. From almost 25°C(77°F) we dropped to 0°C(32°F) in just 24h. Instead of rain, we got snow. Luckily the soil was warm enough from…

  • Seedlings week 13: tomato stakes

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    When you tell someone that your seedlings need stakes, the first thing you hear is that you’ve sown them too early. But, for me, staking my seedlings is actually the sign that I did something right and that this year,…

  • Monthly review: March- one big cabbage roll

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    In Croatian, when you want to explain the inadequateness of the word “average” there’s a saying that roughly translates as: “Some people eat only meat, some eat only cabbages and some get the soup, but in the end, we all…

  • Seedlings week 12: more sowing

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    Things are warming up really fast. From winter temperatures, we’ve jumped to the first day when we don’t need any house heating at all. This morning I didn’t even turn on the air conditioning or the electric radiators. One radiator…

  • 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…