My small peace of heaven.

Good morning all. I used to kept my gardening diary, and now have wish and permission to make new one here. I have small cottage and smallholding in the hills above my town in Croatia. I grow all kind of veggies and fruit, and I spend all my free time there. My weather is just slightly different from yours in UK, summer is always quite hot and without much rain, but in these days everything is jumbled. To make a long story short, I hope to have a nice thread where I can show you what I'm doing, to receive and give some advice, and to have a pleasant chat with you all.

First I'll show you my land. This was few weeks ago, and by now I planted 20kg of onions and sow many other vegetables. I have one more major job to do, and it's planting 80 kg of potatoes.

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This small field is just for tomatoes, peppers and few other veggies.

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Here are few photos from last year.

 

And here are some of this year seedlings. I grow them all from seeds, it's much more fun than buy already prepared plants.

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Looking forward to seeing your results @Ante1

 

You have a lot of land, it will be interesting to see how it progresses .

 

Pleased that you joined the gallery. You have lovely soil ... unlike here in Algarve where we have red clay. This too is my diary ... since 2006!

My garden, quite small, is all tropical/sun-tropical. However this year I am trying Red Pepper and Pepperdew ... not successfully so far as slugs ate my first seedlings!

I look forward to following your progress.

 

I was amazed in the other Forum at how hard you work Ante, as you also work in a school, and the amount of vegetables you grow. I find my small veg patch enough work for me.

 

Thank you @Victoria and @Busy-Lizzie. Looking forward to see your lovely garden and plants Victoria.

 

Thank you. I update a few times a month ... as things are blooming or going on ...

An Algarve Garden 2024