my garden diary
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Garden diary: summer in autumn
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After two weeks of enormous rainfall, which managed to compensate for the whole summer drought, we’re back to sunny and warm weather. This is helping us finish the needed winter preparations and prolong our garden season. Another dry period September…
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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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Growing Wine cap mushrooms
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Mushrooms are an essential part of my home meals. We love mushrooms and eat them almost every week. Usually, I buy mushrooms in the stores or use the dried mushrooms we collected in the nearby forests. But, since the past…
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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,…