garden
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Garden diary: cleaning out the summer vegetables
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As soon as the first autumn rain starts, it is time to prepare the garden for autumn. The harvests and success of the garden in autumn depends only on the number of sunny days, and currently, things are not looking…
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Garden Diary: small potato harvest
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I had a lot of extra soil and a couple of old buckets, so I decided to plant some potatoes. This week I finally decided to dig them out. The results were not great, but with the drought and heat…
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Garden diary: Summer in my garden is over
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With the first September days, the summer in my garden is over. Sunny hours in are reduced to only two or three a day, and the constant forest shade is keeping the dew on the beds. In very dry conditions,…
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Garden Diary: August review
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After an extremely hot July, August had been hot, but with a couple of cooler days. Usually, in this part of Croatia, summer is over around August 15th, and this year wasn’t different. Our mornings are now much colder, with…
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Dried green mix and endive
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There’s nothing better than a home-dried herb. The taste is always much stronger than the store-bought ones, and you can mix the herbs you like. I used to dry my herbs separately and had a bunch of small jars with…