Orto di Casa Cecconi

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

L’orto di Casa Cecconi Plants Recipes Me & Kew One Year at Wisley

Year: 2009

  • PS – the end of potatoes

    After the enjoyable day, a disappointing discovery I thought I had too many potatoes for planting, but I am left with none. The ones that were chitting in the shed have all rotted – I think they suffered from frost. Initially, I had thought that they might have got a little bit wet when I…

  • I am furious!

    Preparing for spring: let’s look at the bright side… I went to the allotment to plant my daffodils and the first thing I noticed was my fleece tent smashed down with a dead rat lying on it. Not a good start. Then I got into the greenhouse and it had been trespassed on again: panel…

  • One last time during the holidays

    Crop updates, preparing for spring I have been one last time to the allotment, in between frosts and before going back to work. Timing was really good as the weather seems to be getting colder and colder, although the days are finally growing in lenght again (we are now in that phase in which sunrise…

About Me

M.Paola M.Paola, that’s me

I got my first allotment in the UK in 2007 and started gI got my first allotment in the UK in 2007 and started growing my own food. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied horticulture. Faced with the horticultural warfare, I became a conscientious objector: I use no chemicals and support organic principles and regulations.

Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, three new plots by a nature reserve and an MSc in sustainable food systems.

I write in my personal capacity and, as a language perfectionist and a non native speaker, I keep reviewing my entries’ text for clarity.

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