Tag: l’orto

I have been on holiday last week, but my allotment was never far away from my mind. We spent a few day in Bangors Organic B&B, where I learnt how to identify potato blight, and that the scab on my potatoes is innocuous. Also, I tasted for the first time nasturtium (despite having grown it…

Anyone knows what this white wiggly worm is? Good or bad? I am finding them all over the place at home: looked as if they were coming from the green bin and have been quickly invading the pots. The creature – less than 1 cm in lenght – is a very fast mover, seems to…

Since I had such a rewarding crop tonight (despite the little effort I put on the allotment in the last few weeks), I decided to use the veg as fresh as possible and mixed most of them together in a last-of-summer pasta (you can recognise courgettes and flower, tomatoes green and red, beans – saved…

That is how I feel about the plot right now: there’s plenty of things out: autumn raspberries, beans, a lonely soyabean from my experiment, tomatoes, courgettes, potatoes, cucumbers, spinach beet, beetroot, turnips, celery, sweetcorn, figs, flowers… But everything is covered in weeds and slugs (still have not managed to take the pellets here but I…

The allotment is a disaster, and it doesn’t help seeing it after a shower when the fattest slugs I have ever seen are all happily out and about. However, there was a single purple aubergine flower whose assertive beauty is such I cannot describe: I wish I had a camera with me, as I doubt…

No news from the allotment as I have not been for a while; however – in what must have been a moment of genius in the dull haze of the brain I am living in at the moment – I decided that… if the mountain doesn’t come to Mohammad, then… I would grow vegetables at…