forest garden

  • Tomatoes in a forest garden? How, where and when.

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    Tomatoes love the sun and warmth, but is it possible to grow them in a garden surrounded by forest or a shaded area? Choosing the right time, variety, and care makes it possible to grow them even in a garden…

  • 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…

  • Monthly review: April

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    April really flew by. I have a feeling that I wrote a March review a week ago and it’s already time to write about April. Probably because we didn’t have any big weather changes, and the whole month looked like…

  • Is spring already here?

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     After a very long period of cold, February started with unusually warm weather. What we thought would be a short break from the winter is now turning out to be a whole month of spring weather and temperatures. Mild mornings…

  • Digging through the fog

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    The Forest garden, especially on the hill, during autumn, is characterized by two things: fog and rain. Sunny days usually don’t start with a sunrise, but with a long morning fog that sticks until the late afternoon. There are many…