Tag: l’orto

On watering and rain, pumpkin or squash, male or female asparagus. I hate watering, and last summer I had to do quite a bit of it, hence my raindance, which incidentally seems to have worked far too well! It is incredible the amount of rain that has poured in the last few weeks, and it…

Autumnal mood, wildlife pond and gardening, wind and staking. My visits to the allotments in the last couple of grayish days have thrown me in a blue mood: the lush green – both vegetable and weeds – is receding, bed by bed, and quite surprisingly it is affecting me! I do not know why, it’s…

Tomato diseases, millipedes v centipedes, crop updates, cabbage white caterpillars. The other day I was browsing the BBC’s gardening site and my eye was caught by the problem solving homepage on Tomato leaf mould… doubts tormented me about some yellow spots I had seen on the tomatoes in the greenhouse. Confirmed today: leaves wilted, and…

Crop updates, misterious finding. It is almost one year since I got my allotment, but before I can sit and reflect on progress, there are some crops that I can still plant: barbe di frate and cima di rapa quarantina so I have to hurry digging the beds before it’s too late (one year and…