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Finally, this weekend was decent enough to go to the allotment and I didn’t take any chances: husband made me packed lunch and I stayed from morning to sunset, 6 hours. How good that was! Did not seem to do a lot though. I finished clearing and transplanting the strawberry runners (there’s a handful of…

Everything that I sowed was out tonight: beans, sunflowers, tomatoes, borage, courgettes, all the brassicas… everything except soyabeans! And not only seeds had germinated, they were thriving, for example I had to transplant French beans that had grown more than 20cm! Besides I picked 500gr strawberries and 700gr broadbeans. And as I was leaving, it…

Crop updates, the exhausting job of applying nematodes, cooking from produce Most or the seedlings are doing great, with the exception or salad, which has been exterminated in whatever form I planted it, the rapa bianca – ditto – and the beheaded sunflower cotyledons. Celery is making tiny three-lobed leaves, spinach is growing and even…

Preparing for Easter picnic, parsley and the ‘trita prezzemolo’, crop updates. Tomorrow we are going for a picnic with friends, and I have offered to take some antipasti, sage focaccia and Pimm’s. Incursion into the allotment required to get: mint, sage and parsley. While I was there I noticed that the rain of the last…

Crop updates, pumpkin recipes Sunny day: hooray! Chilly morning, still a very pleasant couple of hours I spent at the allotment. Duly planted the mushrooms beneath the glasshouse bench, working the granules in the manure and covering with damp newspaper. In ten day or so the spawn should start to form.The broad beans have also…

Spinach beet and torta pasqualina. After breaking your back on the allotment all your spare time, the last thing you would want is to throw away any green stuff. Usually, though, when something is in season you get far too much of it, albeit for a very short period of time, as family and friends…