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01/03/2012 12:32 am

Deety’s 2012 gardening tips

The best advice I can give is to plant and harvest early and don’t bother with any late December vegetables. Think Fresh: 2012 is not a good year for preserves. 2012 Vegetables are best eaten fresh or sold for cash. Do not give credit or accept long term payments. Horticultural alignment is in fashion...

11/19/2011 1:34 am

Vegetable garden – end of the season

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

Vegetable garden – work, work, work

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...

04/19/2011 2:03 am

Seed potatoes, 250 onions and electric shocks

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

Ploughing starts for the new season

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

Manure on the vegetable garden

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...

09/21/2009 10:41 pm

Final harvest in the barganews vegetable garden

Maybe now is the right time to bring you all up to speed on just what has been happening in the barganews vegetable garden. The last article was written during the first week in August and was entitled “It’s harvest time in the barganews vegetable garden” In it we wrote: Lettuce and courgettes,...