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Caring for the soil – part 1: crop rotation, companion planting and intercropping
As you know, I have tried do grow organically over these four years or so. I have always believed that working with nature makes more sense than working against it: fire-fighting against pests with chemicals, for example, instead of working in a balanced ecosystem with pests and predators even themselves out – that at least…
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Long live the chilli plants
I am not sure what has been wrong with my technique of growing chillies in the last two years. I suspect they might have taken objection to my reluctance feeding them. Anyway, come September they were, and are – this year even worse – just about to flower for the first time if at all.…
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Another year of elderberries
I have not written for a while: gardening is repetitive, so I sort of ran out of topics, and I am trying to figure out how to make my pages interesting in the little time I have. Also, I am not happy with pictures from my new camera, so my old blog format does not…
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Dry spring, wet summer
I have started clearing the wilderness that both my plot and hubby’s had become, the endless rainshowers having not so much made the soil muddy as workable again -especially the new bit, which was compacted and very much like concrete under the spade. I will take sone pics over the weekend, as it is starting…
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Pigeons-ortocecconi 2-2
This year I have lost my gooseberries to pigeons once again. It happened in the first year when I did not know what that bush was. Then I netted it the second and third years, and had bumper crops. This year, despite the netting, they were gone and I was left with only 2 punnets,…
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They say you have to try everything at least once in life…
… so this morning, when I found myself awake in bed at 5 AM, thinking of the plumber and work, I decided I would get up for a change and go to the allotment to relax. And so I did. Rather strange for someone who, like myself, is definitely not a morning person, I thought…
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Some days are just not on
I arrived at the plot a bit earlier than usual, between 19.15 and 19.30 and it was quiet. Soil was ok and I managed to do some digging while having some banter with the neighbours. All good, except that suddenly I could not hear them any longer and I realised when I came back from…
About Me
M.Paola Andreoni
I got the first allotment in 2007 (in the UK) and started growing my own food for the first time. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied some horticulture. I am striving to abide by organic principles. Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, and two new plots by a nature reserve.
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