Tag: l’orto
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Stuck indoor and researching garlic
Stuck indoor once again by beautiful (I do mean it!) snowfall, and having given up addictive iPhone game, I spent the edges around my working day trying to concentrate again on my future in horticulture. Garlic caught my attention, as I remembered that the two variants I was given by Neil and did plant before…
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A frosty day on the plot
This morning I did go to the allotment and, opening the shed, I found it deceptively dry and almost cosily cool. However, the graceful lacey pattern on the inside of the roof left no doubt that there was no hope for any gardening today! In fact it was so cold that the soil was frozen…
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Happy New Year!
We had the snow, then a thick fog so it was a great time to spend indoor and relax, doing all the stuff I had left for months, some for years, like making pasta! I did my stocktaking: it came out last year I had been particularly keen on flowers, and fruit. I made a…
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Merry Christmas!
It will be next to impossible for me to do any gardening over the Christmas holidays, as there is still a fair amount of snow on the ground here. However, this will be the perfect time for me to complete my seed stock taking: removing the seed box from the kitchen floor will also work as…
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Alliaceae in place and hibernated ladybirds too
Yesterday I spent another four hours at the allotment, and I finally planted all the Alliaceae: garlic Vallelado (plus two species Neil gave me), onion Shakespeare, shallot Vigarmor. I have never seen so many hibernated ladybirds; actually I had never seen any in the previous two winters, so I guess that is a very good…
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I made it!
I came up with the almost-perfect sage focaccia recipe, I tried it twice and both time it was good, so I can share it: was fairly easy! Step 1: make the dough Anything from 350gr organic flour, I mix it with a handful of wholemeal as well, a pinch of salt or two, yeast (1…
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Sage
The other day when I covered my herb patch I had to cut back the biggest plants, among which sage. In my experience, when it does not die a short while after planting, a sage bush is very prolific, and so mine has been. I have dried and saved a good few leaves, more than…
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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