Orto di Casa Cecconi

My first allotment, and then one thing leading to another…

L’orto di Casa Cecconi Plants Recipes Me & Kew One Year at Wisley

Year: 2008

  • Digging in feathery company

    Crop updates, winter maintenance Before today’s frost I managed to go to the allotment twice over the holidays. Not much to report, really, apart from a small act of vandalism in which someone went into the greenhouse to smoke and drink, displaced the vent and threw a few things around. Luckily they did not damage…

  • The season for planting soft fruits

    Crop updates, planting soft fruis. Yesterday was a great morning at the allotment! I had been there last week but the weather was not too good, so I barely enjoyed planting the raspberries in thick heavy mud that made work ten times as hard as it should, with florid weeds coming out at every spadeful.…

  • Another beautiful winter day

    Crop updates On Saturday I went to the allotment again… as my work is getting busier and busier, and the weekdays are so full, I have almost forgotten what I did!!! But I remember having a very good time. I heard that I would not get my autumn onions after all, because the supplier made…

  • Winter growing arrangements

    Crop updates, doubts on mushrooms, protecting winter crops Last weekend I had a quick go at planting some Meteor peas: I seem to be late again on the planting schedule. Last year I had a few free weekdays so I am now realising that having only weekends is making it very difficult to keep a…

  • A good Saturday morning

    Crop updates, pumpkin recipes Sunny day: hooray! Chilly morning, still a very pleasant couple of hours I spent at the allotment. Duly planted the mushrooms beneath the glasshouse bench, working the granules in the manure and covering with damp newspaper. In ten day or so the spawn should start to form.The broad beans have also…

  • Lazily, tiredly browsing the web after work and before dinner

    Erratic thoughts while chilling out, allotment beds map Not so long ago Thompson & Morgan updated their website, and although this is a purely commercial site and not specifically dealing with organic, they have included a little interesting content – on the other hand they have ended up messing up the online order form considerably,…

  • I do best on the allotment when not under time pressure

    Crop updates, autumn cleanup, cooking Unlike my student and business life, I seem to do better when I am not pressured for time on the allotment. Yesterday I had a great time preparing the mushroom bed in the greenhouse (apparently mushrooms do best on horse manure under the greenhouse bench, so I have prepared them…

About Me

M.Paola M.Paola, that’s me

I got my first allotment in the UK in 2007 and started gI got my first allotment in the UK in 2007 and started growing my own food. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied horticulture. Faced with the horticultural warfare, I became a conscientious objector: I use no chemicals and support organic principles and regulations.

Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, three new plots by a nature reserve and an MSc in sustainable food systems.

I write in my personal capacity and, as a language perfectionist and a non native speaker, I keep reviewing my entries’ text for clarity.

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