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Don’t water the beans
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Beans are one of the vegetables that are highly stressed during the summer heat. They like warmth and they are very frost sensitive, but when temperatures are too high, the beans will react with the lack of pods. This year has been very warm and very dry in Croatia, and in most of the gardens,…
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Orchard pruning
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The first thing we do in the new gardening season is always orchard pruning. Before I used to do it alone and it took me at least 4 days. The past couple of years my hubby helps me and now we have a system and we manage to prune our trees in just a couple…
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Blackberry “brajda” – the easiest harvest
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Blackberries have been a part of my garden for over 25 years. The first few blackberry canes we got from our neighbor from Germany, it was the first thornless variety that came to Croatia. They weren’t even sold here, people went to Germany to buy them and we managed to get a few canes and…
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April in my garden- what can I do?
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In most of the gardens in the northern hemisphere, April is the outdoor starting month. Snow is gone, the soil is warm enough to start our sowing season and trees are waking up from the long winter treating us with a beautiful show of little white flowers. But what can be done in our garden…
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Roots can be a new vegetable
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Each year we try to clean our garden completely during the fall to prepare it for a new gardening season in spring. We remove old dead plants, we harvest every vegetable, remove every root and remove every single weed. Of course, we plant some winter vegetables, but the beds that aren’t used we try to…