march
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Seedlings week 13: tomato stakes
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When you tell someone that your seedlings need stakes, the first thing you hear is that you’ve sown them too early. But, for me, staking my seedlings is actually the sign that I did something right and that this year,…
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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…
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Orchard is waking up
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There’s always that one tree that never gives fruits. In my garden that’s a plum. A very early yellow plum usually flowers first and because of this flowers usually freeze. The same thing is happening this year, the crazy…
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Finally some life
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March has been a very cold month. Even with the past couple of warm days, we’re actually catching up on the heat we should have got during the first couple of weeks of March. Usually, by the end of March,…
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Orchard pruning part 2
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We finally did it. The orchard has been pruned. We managed to find one warm enough day without the wind and finish with the apple pruning. This time my hubby helped me trim the higher branches, so we managed…