forest 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Don’t water the beans

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     Beans are one of the vegetables that are highly stressed during the summer heat. They like warmth and they are very frost sensitive, but when temperatures are too high,…