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Garden diary: Slowly starting new season
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Winter is finally showing signs of slow fading. Nights are getting shorter, birds start singing at 5 am, and although the mornings are still cold, the smell of spring is in the air. With the beginning of spring, my gardening season also starts, so it’s time to slowly make our way to the garden. Jumping…
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Garden diary January 2026: Snow and seedlings
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After a couple of mild winters, we almost forgot what our real winter looks like. This winter is reminding us of the past times. A year of snow Mild and rainy, these were the conditions in the previous couple of winters. We had a couple of weeks of snow, but nothing serious; temperatures were so…
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Garden diary 2025: cold May and burning June
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After a very cold spring, with temperatures below the average, summer came hot and dry. What were supposed to be the two mildest months ended up being a real challenge for us. May May continued the spring’s average trend. The mornings have been around the frost temperatures the entire month, and with quite cold days.…
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Garden diary week 5: Cleaning up the yard
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The past week, after a couple of weeks of snow and freezing weather, we jumped into spring-like weather. This brought us out of the house and we’ve started with garden work. It’s still too cold for sowing and planting, but there’s plenty to do. Cleaning up the yard We decided to cut down most of…
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Weekly progress week 2: Snow and first seedlings
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Snow is becoming a rare event here in Croatia. Although we had at least a couple of snowy weeks a year in previous decades, this is changing lately. Last Friday, we got our first decent snow, and of course, it immediately brought problems. Snowy weekend Living on a hill can be very challenging. Everyday things…