Orto di Casa Cecconi

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

Month: March 2015

  • Sowing salads in pots

    Being early spring, the veg garden is still rather bare while seeds work their magic underground and indoors in the propagation houses. My colleague in charge of the vegetable garden is very keen for it to look always at its best and interesting for the visitors, so at this time of the year he starts…

  • This is the start of the new season

    It is the start of the new season, and with it has come the joy of seed sowing. I love growing plants from seed, I will sow anything I can lay my hands on, and my seed database lists in excess of 300 different species. But most of what I have learnt has been by…

  • The Great Dixter weekend

    Fergus Garret and his lovely team at Great Dixter House and Gardens organise yearly working weekends for horticultural trainees, who flock from all over the country to experience the atmosphere and the ways at the famous garden, home of the late Christopher Lloyd. Of course, like many, I had watched documentaries on Great Dixter, for…