monthly review

  • 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…

  • Moody February: back to the winter

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     Moody February showed its true face once again. Just as I feared this week we jumped from late spring back to the middle of winter. The temperature has dropped back below 0°C (32°F), and cold north winds started turning the…

  • January review: a lot of waiting

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     January is usually the slowest garden month of the year. There is no real garden work that can be done during January, we can only start some of the seedlings, but other than that, there’s not much that can be…

  • Garden review: July

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    We haven’t even properly started this gardening season, and we’re already in the second half of the season. Plants are already in full harvest, temperatures are at their peak, and before we’ll realize we’ll be cleaning the garden and getting…

  • review: Garden in June

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     June has been a real rollercoaster of weather. From unusually cold first 10 days to the August temperatures in the last couple of days. We got our first heatwave that lasted 12 days without a break and got the lowest…