01/27/2012 10:24 am
Si svolgerà lunedì 30 gennaio alle 21 il seminario dal titolo “Orti impossibili”.
Si tratta di un seminario rivolto a coloro che non hanno spazi per un vero orto ma non vogliono rinunciare alla possibilità di produrre ortaggi, sebbene in piccole quantità. Saranno presentate varie soluzioni...
12/23/2011 7:00 pm
Bello, interessante, semplice, concettuale, azzeccato, “una bella cosa”, evoluto, “avete fatto magie con quelle piante”, “quasi parla”, … sono tutte espressioni utilizzate per riferirsi a “Fatti gli ortaggi tuoi”, l’allestimento realizzato da Ecoland per il Desco 2011. Partiamo...
11/19/2011 1:34 am
Back in February 2009 we published an article at the start of the project that was to become the giornaledibarganews vegetable garden.
In that article we wrote the following words: Gradually the economic problems besetting world finances and markets starts to make itself felt here in Barga. The “happy...
06/14/2011 2:57 pm
As we move into the second week of June, the vegetable garden is finally starting to pick up speed and things are starting to grow … not least of which, the weeds, which are now starting to take over in a couple of places, most notably the potato field.
The top field with the potatoes is...
05/27/2011 1:33 am
Well they are back, just when you thought the coast was clear and everything was working just fine, a nasty surprise this evening upon entering the top field of the giornaledibarganews vegetable garden – many of the freshly sprouting and a heavily pampered potato plants were no longer there. In...
05/18/2011 2:35 pm
The weather forecast was not good, in fact it was terrible, it talked of storms, high winds and a meteorological condition that strikes fear in the hearts of every gardener and farmer …. hail stones. During the winter months hailstones cause little damage but this time a year they can...
05/15/2011 3:31 pm
Time for planting and seeding in the vegetable garden. So far 100 tomato plants have been put into the ground comprising four different types - three mainly for bottling later on in the season for pomarola, and the fourth for salad during the summer. Two types of dwarf runner beans have been...
04/19/2011 2:03 am
On the last article we wrote that “so far this year, the weather has been somewhat kinder and last week Giorgio and his tractor arrived to deep plough the two fields ready for the start of sowing potatoes later on next week, nearly two months earlier than last year. Let’s hope the good weather...
04/01/2011 9:28 pm
Last year was a difficult year for the barganews vegetable garden with the very wet start to the season making life very difficult for all concerned. In fact looking back over the barganews archives we find that we only managed to get a tractor on to the field and ploughed towards the end of May –...
03/24/2011 11:35 pm
Second article of the year in a series of articles about the progress of the barganews vegetable garden which was started in 2009. Readers might remember that it actually took us a good deal of time to find a decent plot of land but finally we did. It was in the right place, it had the right amount of...
02/06/2011 10:17 am
The good weather that this area has been lucky enough to enjoy over the past week or so has meant that we can start to think about the more or less abandoned barganews vegetable garden once again. Last year was, to put in mildly, a disaster – an unmitigated disaster. Torrential rain at the start...
09/06/2010 11:24 am
So far it has not been what could be described as a “good year” for the barganews vegetable garden. It started badly and has continued with one problem after another making for a very difficult year for those growing their own food. The terrible weather at the start of the season meant...
08/17/2010 3:44 pm
With the bulk of the summer events in Barga firmly behind us and with just the main Barga Jazz Festival to come in the following weeks now is probably a good time to have a quick recap on what’s been happening in the barganews vegetable garden. To put it mildly, it’s been a terrible year. ...
06/16/2010 2:05 am
The barganews vegetable garden after a late start to the season, due to all the rain earlier on last month, is now starting to catch up and things are flourishing. There are now 100 tomato plants neatly set out in two rows running down the full length of the top field. Bamboo trestles for support were...
05/28/2010 5:39 pm
As we have already said in other articles, due to the inclement meteorological conditions at the start of the spring season, the barganews vegetable garden is this year more or less one month behind schedule but this morning finally conditions were right and this year’s work started...
05/23/2010 3:58 pm
Back in March we wrote an article on the barganews vegetable garden entitled “The spring is sprung, the grass is ris.” Prophetic words indeed as since then the grass has done nothing but rise, rise, rise.
We had problems right from the start of the season as the ground was still much too wet...
05/04/2010 12:42 am
Back in March we wrote an article on the barganews vegetable garden entitled “The spring is sprung, the grass is ris.” Prophetic words indeed as since then the grass has done nothing but rise, rise, rise.
We had problems right from the start of the season as the ground was still much too...
04/23/2010 7:37 pm
An extremely interesting conference was held in Garfganana this week which will have a direct impact on the barganews vegetable garden. The conference was organised by the Comunità Montana della Garfagnana and the agricultural department at the University of Florence and had the working title of “Il...
04/06/2010 10:12 pm
Problems right at the start of the season on the barganews vegetable garden, now in its second year, as the ground is still much too wet to allow the tractors access to the fields.
We tried getting the small tractor of Paolo Lazzarini with a load of compost onto the bottom field this evening and failed...
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