Tag: pest
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I'm back, with ignorance and squeamishness
Back, I am! – Today, halfway through writing my last uni essay, I decided I had enough and wanted to go to the allotment, which I did, for three hours. This is how it looked when I arrived, and a lot of excitement in store! It took me a while to get my head round…
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Growing organic
Crop updates, flea beetles, wildlife in the allotment. Planted cime, barbe di frate, and phacelia on the onion bed. The fennel has not recovered from transplant yet and is pretty wilted, but I am optimistic. There are three more crops now on, which I did not mention yesterday. First of all, the black sweetcorn (the…
About Me
M.Paola Andreoni
I got the first allotment in 2007 (in the UK) and started growing my own food for the first time. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied some horticulture. I am striving to abide by organic principles. Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, and two new plots by a nature reserve.
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