Orto di Casa Cecconi

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

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Orto is the Italian for a vegetable plot. Find here all the pages that talk about my own plot(s).

  • A new phase: mission statement and privacy

    It’s been a long time since I last wrote a blog post of my own. This blog started off as a way to share my enthusiasm as I took my first steps in the world of allotment growing (Orto di Casa Cecconi means: the plot of the Cecconi household). When I became a professional, the…

  • Apologie van een tuin

    (this is the one and only post in Dutch on my blog) Iemand noemed mijn tuin ‘een puinhoop’. Volgens die iemand, doe ik niet genoeg om mensen te laten weten wat ik ben met mijn tuin aan het doen. Daroom denken mensen dat mijn biodiverse tuin is een ‘puinhoop’.  Mijn oppottafel Ook, maak ik mijn…

  • Blooming weeds!

    It is over a year since my last post and l’Orto di Casa Cecconi has a new home, in the Netherlands. A rather beautiful, large patch of land adjacent to a nature reserve and lake, it came with a big shed, more of a house really… The space is divided in two parts: a mature,…

  • Glass cutting

    More panes on the ground than on the frame! With my newest plot I inherited a rather wrecked glasshouse. I don’t seem to have been overexcited about it, as that is pretty much the only picture I took of it, although I did take some pictures of plants around it, and there are pretty daffs!…

  • I’ve got seedy penpals… and musings

    January, that time of the year again. Forcing yourself out on a sunny, yet frosty, day to clean the greenhouse – your fingers numb – so it’s ready for the new sowing season… … and, of course, planning & scheming and getting all ready for sowing new seeds! That’s when the first round of the…

  • Cardoons

    Cardoons (Cynara cardunculus) is not a very common vegetable, either here in the UK or indeed in Italy, where, however, they make the occasional appearance in the shops. One of the odd and little known vegetables that are kept alive by elderly people eating them and that have seen better days, when they even had…

  • Finding the right recipe for your produce

    It is very important to find the right recipes for your produce, the ones that bring out the best of its qualities – if you want to enjoy it. I am pretty sure that everything edible can be enjoyed if prepared in the right way. Just a few minutes ago I was talking to someone…

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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