Hello from Croatia

[Darknessfairy]

Greetings from a small village in western Croatia.
Usually when people think about my country they see big beaches, blue sea and beautiful Mediterranean climate, well my village is no where near that. Here we have zone 8a with pretty cold winters and long frost time, while summers are very warm and dry. All this is a real challenge for gardeners.

I've been a gardener all my life, first helping my mum and later taking over our vegetable garden. I have an obsession with seed collecting, especially tomatoes and peppers. Someday I hope to collect and make a review of all existing tomato varieties.

I've spent a long time searching for a forum with friendly gardeners and I have a feeling this could be a good place to get few advices, share experiences and if needed offer help to fellow gardeners.

BTW for those who don't know where Croatia is located - it's that weird shaped country in south-east Europe.

 

[Beverly]

Greetings and a warm welcome to the forums @Darknessfairy. We are happy to have you here and look forward to hearing about and seeing your garden in the weird shaped country of Croatia. I find the people here friendly, helpful, polite, sharing experiences, photos and information freely. I have learned so much since i became a member in February. There is also a good international group of gardeners from all parts that can really enrich conversations. I think you are the first one from Zapresic, though. There is a member map so you can pin point your location. We are having an influx of new members at this time and i don't know how many people are using the map which is too bad, because it is fun to see how scattered we all are.

 

[Beth_B]

Welcome! My brother and his family live not too far from you (Budapest.) It's a beautiful part of the world from what I've seen.

 

[Becky]

Great to have you here @Darknessfairy! Welcome aboard!

Someday I hope to collect and make a review of all existing tomato varieties.

Sounds like a great project! We have some keen tomato growers here, so we'd love to hear about it.

Croatia is such a beautiful country - I went to Dubrovnik in 2014 but I'd love to go back and see more of the country.

 

[Darknessfairy]

Thank you all for your warm welcome.

@Beverly thank you for telling me about the map, I haven't noticed it. I've pinned my location to the map. It's pretty lonely there, no pins around me

@Beth_B You are right, Budapest is not too far away. I've never been there, but Croatian and Hungarian town look almost the same.

@Becky If you ever go back try visiting northern Croatia, especially Varazdin. No sea there but whole town is a one huge garden so you might like it

I have to ask something. I see you have a showcase here and that you post photos on forum too. I was wondering am I allowed to use photos that have a watermark with my blog address in the corner of the photo or should I crop it off first?
I don't want it to seem like I'm here to advertise myself but in future it could happen that I'd like to post here a photo that I already used on blog so I'd like to know what to do with it before uploading.

 

[Becky]

I have to ask something. I see you have a showcase here and that you post photos on forum too. I was wondering am I allowed to use photos that have a watermark with my blog address in the corner of the photo or should I crop it off first?

That's fine (ie no need to remove the watermark), but thanks for checking first

 

[Trellum]

I love your plan Collecting all varieties of tomato seeds and then reviewing them sounds like the most engaging and entertaining idea ever Welcome to the forum, I'm looking forward to getting to know you through your posts It sounds like you got a lot interesting ideas!