Tag: l’orto

Crop updates. I took my “extraterrestrial” chitted potatoes from the kitchen and carried them to London and back today hoping that the weather would keep so that I could plant them, which I did; half of them that is, because I ran out of space. So I spent the rest of the time working on…

… I have not taken my camera with me lately, but everything is coming back to life and it’s fresh green, or colourful and fragranced! I love walking around and smelling fragrances in the air! Yesterday I had friends with me: we popped in quickly at the allotment and had some fun picking leeks –…

Quick crop update. With a cold and a temperature, I still had to run down to the allotment as it was two days since my last visit and seedlings are unforgiving… … celery, in fact, was already wilting in patches: I made it just in time. Nasturtium is out, aubergines, sunflower and chamomile are doing…

Crop updates, the pleasures of gardening. I came to the UK almost 4 years ago. Before that, had anyone told me that I would dream of spending an hour or so shovelling shit after a stressful day at work, or that having slipped with my work shoes in the above mentioned – I would feel…

Crop updates, wildlife developments The ducks were not there tonight, so it seems the problem is solved! Hoorai! Now I can concentrate on the other troublesome species – the rat! I have started tackling the leftover manure to make a raised bed: I was planning it for potatoes but I had an idea and –…

Crop updates, wildlife developments, competition on the allotments Did I tell you my boss was a pretty incredible woman? Well, last week she came in the office with something else for me, and that seems to have solved my duck problem: green netting, with small holes, the perfect size! I put it on the pond…

Some crop thoughts. This week it has been raining and next week it’s BST: the perfect situation, it would seem. I am so keen to go and see whether the spinach is out, and more broadbeans. Last year’s potatoes, the ones I did not eat – I must say out of laziness because cleaning them…