Month: November 2009

I am slowly catching up with my gardening related activities: the allotment, my horticulture course and the blog. Today I made a big order at Garden Organic: some seeds (but not too many, as you know my collection is of a size it might save the world from famine already), the fantastic aluminium tubes and…

Another weekend of miserable weather has gone, and my stored onions are rotting already. Not much to say. — Post From My iPhone

I had a roast with my own potatoes (after a laborious cleaning of all the slugs’ and varied other holes) and turnip Rapa Bianca Lodigiana… the only non-allotment ingredient was sweet potato from my vegbox.It is always very rewarding when you can cook most of a meal with your own stuff.

Despite the mud, I decided to sow some rocket and salad under fleece in front of the greenhouse where the sun reflecting on the panels should make the area warmer. It was too waterclogged to try and sow garlic or onions, and I made a call to delay broadbeans at least another week. Instead, I…

Not the best year for my sowing, isn’t it? But I managed a couple of hours on Saturday and cleared another bed, on one side of the greenhouse, which I will use for winter salad and maybe my one artichoke. Study is progressing: I am now on fruits. There are plenty of new terms to…