my garden diary
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A cold week in July
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May and June have been unusually warm. Temperatures have been over 30°C/86°F most of the days, and the rainfall, which was slim, wasn’t enough to keep the garden growing well. I was getting ready for a bad gardening year with…
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Lavender harvest
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In Croatia, June is usually a Lavender harvest month. In the coastal parts lavender flowers sooner, and in northwestern Croatia we harvest it around the end of June. The lavender isn’t very popular here due to the popular opinion that…
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Anti-hail netting is up
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After years of worrying if we’ll get a destructive storm or not, this year we finally said that it was enough and ordered anti-hail netting. It took a while to get it. Probably due to a lot of storms around…
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Tuesday is harvest day
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Lately, I’ve converted my Tuesday morning into a harvest morning. I don’t know why but Tuesday is a day when I usually harvest my veggies. Mondays are just too busy, I usually dig both the main and side garden, clean…
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Kitchen window plant jungle
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A few weeks back I wrote about my Maranta plant and the jungle I made on my living room window, well I guess the right sequel would be to write about my kitchen window jungle. The kitchen window is also…