Tag: l’orto

Talking of a lot to do in terms of digging and clearing, I came home tonight to find a letter from the council: first warning, they will take my allotment away if I do not fix the path. How the hell could that be, wonder I, when it was Yours Truly in the first place…

Braving the snow showers on this Valentine’s weekend I decided sowing could not wait any longer and had to be done today. Tomorrow is going to snow more than today, and next week I will not be able to make it to the allotment, so it was basically now or never for several seeds, as…

On Saturday I spent the whole day clearing, cleaning and disinfecting the greenhouse – one of the messiest jobs of the year – ready to sow for spring. Having taken a day off, as today it was meant to be sunny, I was raring to go… but not only it’s not sunny, IT’S actually SNOWING!…

Lovely lovely day but freezing cold, with icy ground, so the only things I could do today were: trimming bushes, tidy up the shed, and try my new hickory axe. The axe works (such a useful tool to have on an allotment by the way) so I have split a pallet in two, in view…

All the snow melted, the soil is surprisingly dry and crumbly: today it was the perfect day to weed the wildflower meadow around the pond and create my new umbrelliferae bed, next to the asparagus’s.I am very proud of the result, that you can see in the picture. Digging and clearing the dried weeds was…

I seem to have gone quiet on my blog, but I am doing a lot of gardening thinking. First of all, I have progressed with my study, putting together a good summary of stems after the one on roots I posted before. Then, over the weekend, I almost read three books: one on self-sufficiency &…