Month: November 2008
-
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…
-
Finally back!
Allotments abroad, clearing up, crop updates, encouraging wildlife.This week I have been travelling to Switzerland and I must say my allotment holder soul was struck by a view from the train just outside Zuerich. Not considering the numerous chicken pens which made me think of the mountain village I used to spend my holidays and…
-
Another weekend without allotment
I have not been away from the allotment so long since I got it last year, but yesterday I felt pretty awful and today I have had to catch up on housework. Really counting on next weekend: garlic and broadbeans are waiting to be planted before the ground is too hard. I have found a…
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.
Some Rights Reserved
This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.