Tag: l’orto

Some of you may remember the vicissitudes with ducks when I was still regularly visiting the allotment a few weeks ago. When I ended up fencing and covering in net my little pond supposedly to avoid damage to my neighbours’ tasty (for the ducks that is) seedlings. With the result that no frogs have probably…

It said on the packet that it was an annual, but it turns out it might end up a weed. Some say its beautiful flowers are among the few blue comestibles in nature. Borage oil is supposed to be good for PMS, skin diseases and a wealth of other ailments, as it is an excellent…

After full 4 days, I got to water the tomatoes just in time before they keeled over. Looking at the bright side, I picked my fist cucumber ever, and my first courgette of the year. But that’s all folks: it was just another blitz visit!

Another blitz to water the tomatoes in the greenhouse has confirmed much depression, as weeds have won back all the ground they had lost through my painstaking work over the months. I had to pick onions that were rotting because of the endless rain (must be a good 40 days now with little respite) and…

One of my pre-exam blitzs last night, it was so depressing to see the amount of weeds, slugs of all sizes, fading crops and very little to replace them – as you know I have not been sowing a lot lately and most of what I did sow was exterminated by draughts, slugs and earwigs.…

It has been raining for a whole week, and I have been studying, so no allotment really, but I popped in tonight to water the tomatoes in the greenhouse. I was in a hurry and went straight to the water butt; while I was waiting for the trickle of water to fill the can, I…

I had to pull the broadbeans out as they were wilting and anyway the season was over: I have made some 5kg which is less than last year despite planting double the amount, but still not a bad crop overall. Some peas were also ready: it is such a pity I am not having time…