my garden diary
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Sowing week
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This year has been very specific when it comes to sowing. Somehow, with cold March all of the vegetables ended up being sown at the same time. There has been no March sowing, the plants that needed to be sown…
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Tulip season
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May is the month when my tulips are the prettiest. The earlier varieties are still blooming, and the later varieties have just started opening, making the two small tulip beds colorful and full of flowers. This year the tulips started…
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Monthly review: April
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April really flew by. I have a feeling that I wrote a March review a week ago and it’s already time to write about April. Probably because we didn’t have any big weather changes, and the whole month looked like…
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Canna lily planting
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A few weeks before the last frost date is a perfect time to get the Canna lilies out of the basement and plant them. Canna lily is a tropical plant and can’t survive our winter, so they are stored…
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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…