Tag: l’orto

After the enjoyable day, a disappointing discovery I thought I had too many potatoes for planting, but I am left with none. The ones that were chitting in the shed have all rotted – I think they suffered from frost. Initially, I had thought that they might have got a little bit wet when I…

Planting daffodils and remodelling the pond Fantastic day, the best of the last few months: impossible to resist the call of the allotment; besides, a visit was necessary as it is the last day before some holidays (perfect time of the year if you need to leave your allotment as very little is growing and…

Preparing for spring: let’s look at the bright side… I went to the allotment to plant my daffodils and the first thing I noticed was my fleece tent smashed down with a dead rat lying on it. Not a good start. Then I got into the greenhouse and it had been trespassed on again: panel…

Crop updates, preparing for spring I have been one last time to the allotment, in between frosts and before going back to work. Timing was really good as the weather seems to be getting colder and colder, although the days are finally growing in lenght again (we are now in that phase in which sunrise…

Crop updates, winter maintenance Before today’s frost I managed to go to the allotment twice over the holidays. Not much to report, really, apart from a small act of vandalism in which someone went into the greenhouse to smoke and drink, displaced the vent and threw a few things around. Luckily they did not damage…

Crop updates, planting soft fruis. Yesterday was a great morning at the allotment! I had been there last week but the weather was not too good, so I barely enjoyed planting the raspberries in thick heavy mud that made work ten times as hard as it should, with florid weeds coming out at every spadeful.…

Crop updates On Saturday I went to the allotment again… as my work is getting busier and busier, and the weekdays are so full, I have almost forgotten what I did!!! But I remember having a very good time. I heard that I would not get my autumn onions after all, because the supplier made…