Tag: l’orto
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Huge disappointment…
… as my precious rhododendron turns out to be after all a weed – how could I fall for it? My horticulture text says some plants look different in their juvenile form from their mature one… the thing is that a juvenile plant would not flower and my seedlings has blossomed, shouting weed, weed! Hope…
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Grow-my-own changing the way I cook
I cook every meal. I like big portions, but I have little time and patience, so what I usually do is to cook a quick, big pasta, or pizza or main course and veg (recently I have also started cooking more than I need for the meal, so that I can take it to the office…
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Preserving
aJuly is the time of endless bounty of soft fruits. This year it was raspberry first, followed by gooseberry and redcurrant is just coming now. Pound after pound of raspberry for dessert were getting a bit too much, so I have frozen some for later on (trick to keep them whole I discovered is to…
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The warmest, sunniest harvest day ever
It is the first time since I have had the allotment that I can pick onions and garlic and leave them in the sun to dry. The crop is not massive, so it’s unlikely I will be self-sufficient in garlic as I had planned. I must have left it too long in the ground, as the…
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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…
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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…
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Strawberry spinach
Chenopodium capitatum, of the family of weed goosefoot and the seed quinoa, is a pretty little plant that produces edible leaves (to be eaten as spinach – cooked, or raw but in moderation) and red berries at each leaf node, which American Indians used as a dye, and when ripe should taste like wild strawberries.…
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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