Orto di Casa Cecconi

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

L’orto di Casa Cecconi Plants Recipes Me & Kew One Year at Wisley

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

  • 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…

  • Finally some sun!

    It was sunny yesterday and, despite the mud, I managed to do a few things, like covering the herb patch (oregano still flowering) and sow some salad in the greenhouse, where the chillies are still holding on to their flower buds. I also transplanted the last brassica seedlings: a task long overdue. The rocket I…

  • Roots

    I have done my first revision table for plant organs: starting from the bottom I chose the root, one of the vegetative organs (together with stem and leaf) as opposed to reproductive organs (flower, seed and fruit). Very proud of having managed, when I spilled my tea on it (it’s time to go to bed,…

  • Catching up with my gardening related activities

    I am slowly catching up with my gardening related activities: the allotment, my horticulture course and the blog. Today I made a big order at Garden Organic: some seeds (but not too many, as you know my collection is of a size it might save the world from famine already), the fantastic aluminium tubes and…

  • Setting an example

    Finally, this weekend was decent enough to go to the allotment and I didn’t take any chances: husband made me packed lunch and I stayed from morning to sunset, 6 hours. How good that was! Did not seem to do a lot though. I finished clearing and transplanting the strawberry runners (there’s a handful of…

  • Miserable weather

    Another weekend of miserable weather has gone, and my stored onions are rotting already. Not much to say. — Post From My iPhone

  • Allotment roast for dinner

    I had a roast with my own potatoes (after a laborious cleaning of all the slugs’ and varied other holes) and turnip Rapa Bianca Lodigiana… the only non-allotment ingredient was sweet potato from my vegbox.It is always very rewarding when you can cook most of a meal with your own stuff.

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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