Tag: l’orto

Yesterday I ran through the allotment pictures from 2009, a selection of which I published on Flickr. I was really surprised by how much was there: I had forgotten almost entirely the amount of work I put into it, how much I had transformed the plot, and the fairly plentiful crops, the bugs, the colours……

I finally managed to sow my broadbeans today… and it rained straight afterwards: that’s good!

Today was such a lovely day: it made me forget Christmas and think of spring, besides wanting to go out! It must be the first day we have had a proper blue sky and sun in over a month. I have taken off the decorations from the tree, which has gone back to my back…

The other day I received an email from one of my favourite suppliers, Garden Organic, suggesting that I gave someone for Christmas an adopted vegetable from the Heritage Seed Library. While your money goes into funding the conservation of a heritage veggie variety, the recipient of the present receives an awareness raising card; in some cases, when the…

… came back yesterday when I cooked Spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino with my own garlic and chilli, and tonight I’m having three roasted veg, two of which are my own: potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes. It feels good to cook with my own produce – so much so that I do not seem to feel the frustration of wilted, frostbitten and otherwise dead crops, the…