drought
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Garden Diary: Still dealing with drought
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Gardening has been really hard this summer. Continuous heat and watering could be the entire description of the past couple of months. Still, we’re making slow progress and have good veggie success. Continuous drought The past week has been as dry and warm as the last couple of months. We’re now past the critical drought…
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Watering the overheated garden: When and how?
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Watering the plants is one of the essential chores in the garden during a heatwave. But when is the right time to water our plants? Can we do it whenever we want? Or will the watering affect our gardening results? Summer watering During the summer, especially during the heatwave, our vegetables are in desperate need…
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Dealing with cracks in the soil
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Most garden plants like to grow in rich soil full of organic materials. That’s why we gardeners buy sowing compost and start our seeds in almost perfect conditions. We transplant our plants into our clay-rich gardens pamper the plants and expect them to give us an abundant harvest. But then the summer comes, and we…
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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 had cabbage rolls”. This is the perfect saying to describe this “average” March. When you…
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Unusual carrot sowing
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This has been a very weird beginning of the year. After a very cold and dry February and the beginning of March, the rest of the month has been unusually dry with full sun. There hasn’t been a single rain day in 30 days, and the garden is starting to look like it does…