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…