Tag: l’orto

Reflections on prices and wartime slogans Tonight I went to Waitrose – it must have been a while – and I was a little bit shocked by how much I spent. Be it because of the credit crunch, the strong Euro, oil prices, general lack of sustainability of our way of living, or all of…

Mid-winter crop updates It was good to go back after two weeks and the weather was also decent enough. Understandably not many people around, only Geoff and me: a usual winter weekend. While outside it is still pretty much frozen, the greenhouse thermometer recorded -5 to 30 degree centigrades since the last time I was…

… for the good of my health and wealth! Or, gardening-related addictions. I came home tonight and I was really tired, so I went on T&M website for some relaxing online shopping therapy. While filling my shopping basket with all sort of exciting plants, I decided to have a look at my orders database for…

Nothing worth discussing Weather is still miserable and the snow has not thawed yet: it is quite dangerously slippery so I did not venture to the allotment. A pity though this is as it should be seed planting time, if I was at all inclined to look at the brigh side, I should think that…

I mentioned a while ago that I would draw a map of the plot to plan my planting for this year: I drew it a while ago, and I have been loosely using it to plan space first for potatoes (when they seemed too many for the plot) and now for group B (beans and…

Crop updates, vagaries of the weather I popped into the allotment on Sunday morning but did not last a whole hour: it was freezing cold, do not remember ever feeling so cold out there before! No sign of mushrooms whatsoever, my salad sprouts are still there: green, not wilted but neither grown visibly – not…

Redesigning the pond area and other planting Back from the holidays, I arrived on a beautifully warm and sunny day, so I spent the afternoon at the allotment, clearing the area around the pond. I weeded it all around (three wheelbarrow loads of weeds!), used the biggest of the innumerable flint stones on the plot…