Month: September 2008
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Back to work…
Crop updates, Garden Organic and Heritage Seed Library Another gorgeous weekend and I have digged the last 5 pounds of potatoes and planted green manure in most empty beds. And had to water seedlings, curiously enough after this summer’s weather. Unlike the corn, tomatoes in the greenhouse are almost ripe, I have cooked a second…
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Making the most of allotment produce
Spinach beet and torta pasqualina. After breaking your back on the allotment all your spare time, the last thing you would want is to throw away any green stuff. Usually, though, when something is in season you get far too much of it, albeit for a very short period of time, as family and friends…
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Roots
I have done my first revision table for plant organs: starting from the bottom I chose the root, one of the vegetative organs (together with stem and leaf) as opposed to reproductive organs (flower, seed and fruit). Very proud of having managed, when I spilled my tea on it (it’s time to go to bed,…
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Finally a sunny weekend!
Good weather and crop updates Amazing weather these last three days, it was a pleasure to be outside and I took advantage of it to finish digging my last but one bed, and to plant spinach, some more cime, turnips, salad and barbe di frate. Hopefully tomorrow there will be a good shower and then…
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Ordinary maintenance and stocktaking
Wildlife pond, slugs, crop updates, self-sufficiency and stocktaking. I have finished working on the pond: now it has a toad cavern, a sunbathing platform for frogs, and waterplants in it. For the rest, nothing very exciting: the herb bed needed weeding before I cover it up for the winter – it seems it won’t be…
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Surprise!
Male or female asparagus, slugs, wildlife pond, crop updates. I was all set on pulling the female asparagus plants today: my plan was to create a separate bed only for them. However, when I got there no sign of either berries or yellow flowers (that yellowy thing in the picture should be one). Now I…
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I’ll never do a raindance again
On watering and rain, pumpkin or squash, male or female asparagus. I hate watering, and last summer I had to do quite a bit of it, hence my raindance, which incidentally seems to have worked far too well! It is incredible the amount of rain that has poured in the last few weeks, and it…
About Me
M.Paola Andreoni
I got the first allotment in 2007 (in the UK) and started growing my own food for the first time. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied some horticulture. I am striving to abide by organic principles. Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, and two new plots by a nature reserve.
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