Rolling down my garden

  My little side veggie garden is finally starting to look like a real garden. The rain which we had last weekend helped a lot, and I finally got the chance to clean the whole garden. It was a good decision to wait with the carrot cleaning since now that the rain fell it was much easier to remove the weeds from the bed. It turned out that, like in the main garden, carrots here weren't a success. Out of the whole bed, only a small part is actually covered in carrots and I was left with a bunch of empty space. This is why I decided against the previous idea for this bed and I decided to grow everything here. This year I will try to grow every single vegetable that I grow in the main garden too... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the new page.

  Last week before the rain, I decided to do some additional fertilization and sow some more vegetables. This year, instead of cow pelleted manure I bought a grocery sold manure. The pelleted manure which is sold in our normal stores is packed in smaller bags and can be bought at all times. Cow pelleted manure is sold in 25kg bags, and it is a problem to handle. I can't bring it to the basement on my own, and I need buckets to move it from the basement to the garden. The grocery sold fertilizers are actually not much worse than the big bagged ones. Still, I'll use these ones more often, so the result should be similar. I've already fertilized the garden in March and added some eggshells... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the new page.

A few weeks ago, I said that once I finish sowing the summer seedlings in the garden, I'll finish my sowing season. Well, as it turns out I was wrong. I decided to buy more bags of seeds and start sowing more vegetables.  The truth is I didn't think I would need so many plants in my new garden. Once I've finished sowing and planting in the main garden, I saw that I still have empty space in the main garden and that in July I'll also have room in the side garden. This is why I sent my hubby to buy me more seeds. Buying seeds after May 15th in Croatia is actually a real pain to do. Most of the stores order seeds in March and sell what they have during the whole gardening season. In May there's actually a very small selection available, and you have to buy what's left. Usually, the varieties that are left are the most popular ones, which are ordered in huge amounts. This is great for a normal garden, but for my forest garden sometimes this just doesn't work. St...

  This week in my side garden has been as busy as the past couple of weeks. Honestly, I'm starting to feel trapped on a neverending day. Basically, every day is the same. I wake up at 4 am, have my morning coffee, and at 5:30am I'm off to the garden, first the main garden and then the side garden where I spend most of the morning.  Right now, there's a lot of work in the garden, and I constantly feel like my to-do list keeps getting bigger and bigger. The heat we've been having doesn't help the situation. The temperatures are around 30°C(86°F), which is extremely high considering that our last frost day is actually May 15th. The plants don't mind the heat as much as I do. I'm not supposed to be in the sun, and that's why I rush all the work that I have outside. As soon as the heat starts I start feeling weak, and it takes me twice as much time to do simple tasks. Also, due to the heat, I need to water both gardens every single day, and that's a lot o...