Tag: l’orto

I have started clearing the wilderness that both my plot and hubby’s had become, the endless rainshowers having not so much made the soil muddy as workable again -especially the new bit, which was compacted and very much like concrete under the spade. I will take sone pics over the weekend, as it is starting…

This year I have lost my gooseberries to pigeons once again. It happened in the first year when I did not know what that bush was. Then I netted it the second and third years, and had bumper crops. This year, despite the netting, they were gone and I was left with only 2 punnets,…

… so this morning, when I found myself awake in bed at 5 AM, thinking of the plumber and work, I decided I would get up for a change and go to the allotment to relax. And so I did. Rather strange for someone who, like myself, is definitely not a morning person, I thought…

I arrived at the plot a bit earlier than usual, between 19.15 and 19.30 and it was quiet. Soil was ok and I managed to do some digging while having some banter with the neighbours. All good, except that suddenly I could not hear them any longer and I realised when I came back from…

I have been to the plot a couple of evenings this week, and befriended a fox. A sign of my loneliness, or possibly to exorcise my fear of him scaring the living daylights out of me by jumping out of nowhere, I started talking to Mr Tod when he turns up just before sunset. Running away…

For the first time in four years I have managed some succession sowing, so I should be sorted with salad leaves most of the summer. In April I had sowed some misticanza leaves in one of my two plastic “tents” for protection. By the time I came back from holiday in mid-May, they were ready…

I have not written for the best of a month, what with my exam and – after that – some longed-for holidays. The plot is not in bad shape, probably because it did not rain so much as to set the weeds on rampage (not even nettles!), but just enough to get the crops going.…