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Top 5 Struggles We Faced Starting a Garden in Crete

Starting a garden in Crete, Greece comes with unique challenges: heat, drought, strong winds, pests like grasshoppers, and even our own beginner mistakes. Here’s what we’ve learned! In this video, we share the top 5 biggest challenges of gardening in Crete – from extreme Mediterranean heat and strong winds, to water shortages, clay soil, and dealing with pests like grasshoppers and stink bugs. 🌱 Whether you’re interested in Mediterranean gardening, sustainable living in Greece, permaculture, or starting a backyard garden in a hot climate, you’ll find lessons here. We’ll show how we try to cope with drought using drip irrigation and mulching, protect plants with shade cloth, attract pollinators, and learn from both failures and small wins. This is not just about gardening—it’s about adapting to the land, slow living in Crete, and learning resilience while chasing our dream of a simpler, sustainable life. Don’t forget to subscribe for real-life updates from our garden. – Jip & Ellen | The Ellenik Project    • How We Built Cool Furniture From Free Pall...   ⚙️ Optimize your videos with Vid IQ: https://vidiq.com/ellenik #gardening #gardenproblems #learnbydoing CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Problem # 5 - The heat 07:25 Problem # 4 - The Wind 10:30 Problem # 3 - The Water 15:06 Problem # 2 - The Bugs 20:15 Problem # 1 - The ??? 25:42 Bonus Sunset (4x speed)