Life in a Dol house BLOG

This Blog began in 2014 as a way to keep in touch with family and friends. Gradually more people wanted to read the Blog and so it went from being a weekly email, to an on-line page.

Over time we used different platforms until in January 2019 when we moved to our own dedicated pages. Past years blogs will be added, but it will take time…

Life in a Dol house is about the daily trials and tribulations, successes and failures and the mundane minutia of modernising an old Croatian farm house and smallholding. This is on a beautiful Adriatic island, and is about our making it productive again.

Each week you are invited to join us in our adventures on a small plot of land in this quiet backwater. Here, where the pace of life is still regulated by the passage of the sun across the sky each day and the season of the year.

Below are our most recent Blogs. Just click on any link to open a new page.

Drunk with flower – 2019/05
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Drunk with flower This week: Wall removal; Propagating figs; Hydroponics; Weather; The start of the week went well. With fine and mild weather I finished planting the new raspberry varieties and then tested the underground irrigation system. I’m using a … Read More

Busily doing nothing – 2019/04
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Busily doing nothing This week: Timber!; Computerisation; Polar Vortex; Problem garden corner; Wow, it’s Saturday already! What happened to last week? Did I sleep through it? Well no actually, I’ve been doing a number of jobs but I really don’t … Read More

The grass isn’t always green – 2019/03
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The grass isn’t always green This week: Weather; Horticulture; Seed merchants; Website; At this time of year things are a little slow. We have had some warms days with temperatures into double figures and reaching +14ºC, but cold, clear, cloudless … Read More

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