my garden diary

  • New soil is here

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    rollinggarden

      This has been a very hard week. I can’t remember when was the last time I was so tired at the end of the week. I’m used to hard work, but the amount of the work this week managed…

  • Seedlings week 14: back out again

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    rollinggarden

      After a cold wave we got last week, this week has been a very nice and warm spring week. The Monday temperatures were quite low but didn’t drop under the freezing point. Now, the temperatures are back to mild…

  • Could this be chives?

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    rollinggarden

     For the past couple of years, I’ve started noticing small, onion-looking bushes all around the yard. First, they started appearing in the backyard, but lately, they started spreading outside the side yard, into the woods. We have here some wild…

  • Violent weather change

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    rollinggarden

     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…

  • Monthly review: March- one big cabbage roll

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    rollinggarden

    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…