Orto di Casa Cecconi

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

Month: September 2009

  • Dinner’s ready!

    Since I had such a rewarding crop tonight (despite the little effort I put on the allotment in the last few weeks), I decided to use the veg as fresh as possible and mixed most of them together in a last-of-summer pasta (you can recognise courgettes and flower, tomatoes green and red, beans – saved…

  • Beauty and the beast(s)

    That is how I feel about the plot right now: there’s plenty of things out: autumn raspberries, beans, a lonely soyabean from my experiment, tomatoes, courgettes, potatoes, cucumbers, spinach beet, beetroot, turnips, celery, sweetcorn, figs, flowers… But everything is covered in weeds and slugs (still have not managed to take the pellets here but I…