Article list

For easier search and page usage, I’ve made a list of popular posts and divided most of the posts into categories. The diary part of the page is sorted under the different yearly tags, which can also be found here. The list is updated regularly.

Diy projects:

Tested projects to make our garden nicer, cleaner, and prettier

  1. Papercrete pots

Flower information:

Information about different flower varieties. How to grow and sow them.

Ageratum

Anemone

Barlow columbine

Canna lily

Cornflower

Cleome

Columbine

Cosmos fizzy

Digitalis purpurea

Hesperis matronalis

Hollyhock

Nicotiana alata

Streptocarpus

Food preservation:

Food preservation is a major part of our gardening experience. We try to store as much food for winter as we can. Here are some tested methods and recipes.

Storing vegetables:

Ajvar

Ajvar-oven version

Curly parsley

Homemade salsa

Ljutenica

Pickled beets

Provansal veggies

Sun-dried tomatoes

Turšija

Storing fruits:

Apples compote and dried

Berry syrup

Sour cherry liqueur

Drying for winter:

Blackberries

Cooking veggie mix

Dried peppers

Elderberry flowers

Red currants

Zucchinis

Garden diary:

Every year I write a diary of my garden progress, here is a list of posts from the last 5 years.

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

Helpful garden methods:

Having a garden in the midlle of the forest, on a hill can be very challenging. Here are some good tips that we tested.

Heat issues:

Dealing with soil cracks

Helping garden during heatwaves

Watering the overheated garden

Monthly garden jobs:

March

April

August

September

Plant care:

Beans in summer

Blossom end rot

Blackberries on wires

Delaying tomato late blight

Growing vegetables from old roots

Growing big amounts of seedlings in a small space

Growing brassica greens in shadow garden

Early seedling start how and when

Non-vowen seedling bags

January sowing

Orchard pruning

Pruning tomatoes

Pruning raspberries

Seedling pots

Seed stratification

Tomato blight and septoria leaf spot

Herb information:

Herbs can also play a big role in our everyday life. Here’s a list of known herbs and their usage.

Lungwort

Mushroom index:

We like to collect mushrooms during autumn. Here’s a list of the edible ones that we harvest.

Caesar’s mushroom

Horn of plenty

Parasol mushrooms

Sweet tooth

Wine cap mushrooms

Recipes:

Since I cook every day here are some recipes we enjoy

Breakfast/lunch/dinner

Brassica greens

Cabbage pasta

Chicken burgers

Leek casserole

One-pot pasta

Sunday meat and potatoes in one tray

Sarma

Sweet stuff

Baklava

Mini buhtle

Sunflower/carob/poppy rolls

Šape- Christmas cookies

Weekly bread buns

Tomato list:

There are hundreds of different tomato varieties. Here are some that I’ve grown and tested.

Azoychka

Balcony yellow tomato

Gold rush currant tomato

Green zebra

Gribnoye Lukoshko

Indigo rose

Malakhitovaya shkatulka

Rose quartz multiflora

Viva Italia

Vegetable information:

Information on different vegetables and how to grow them.

Cyclanthera pedata

Cucamelon

Fefferoni

Peter pepper