Orto di Casa Cecconi

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

Month: July 2010

  • Raspberries and foxes

    4 pounds’ raspberries in two days: that’s a proper gluttony! My husband made a tasty sauce (with flour and vinegar) for our chicken tonight and I am trying to freeze some individually… It took ages to pick them, and while I was inspecting the last few plants last nigh around 10 I saw the fox I…

  • Waiting for the Eurostar…

    … to go home and see what’s happened to the allotment over four hot days without my care – hopefully we have had some rain in the night as forecasted, but i’m especially worried for the greenhouse. If they have not wilted, though, I would expect plants will have grown massively! Speed of growth is…