Month: March 2009

Crop updates, wildlife developments The ducks were not there tonight, so it seems the problem is solved! Hoorai! Now I can concentrate on the other troublesome species – the rat! I have started tackling the leftover manure to make a raised bed: I was planning it for potatoes but I had an idea and –…

Crop updates, wildlife developments, competition on the allotments Did I tell you my boss was a pretty incredible woman? Well, last week she came in the office with something else for me, and that seems to have solved my duck problem: green netting, with small holes, the perfect size! I put it on the pond…

Some crop thoughts. This week it has been raining and next week it’s BST: the perfect situation, it would seem. I am so keen to go and see whether the spinach is out, and more broadbeans. Last year’s potatoes, the ones I did not eat – I must say out of laziness because cleaning them…

Crop updates, wildlife and manure.All week I have been thinking that – although I do not mind the ducks and did not see any damage done last year – they might annoy someone else on the site. Punctual as death the question came today: did you see the ducks on your plot? They occasionally nibble…

Crop updates, wildlife, the weather and wise advice. All enthusiastic after a whole afternoon at the allotment on a sunny day I come home and call my auntie. “You shouldn’t have planted anything today, the moon is waning”, says she, reading from the well-known Italian calendar of Frate Indovino (the “Guessing Monk”). Anyway, I will…

Crop updates The other weekend I went very quickly to the allotment and the broadbeans were out!