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Weekly Words for the Wise - a weekly column for the people in the know

05/16/2012 7:38 pm

Slow Economic Fantasy

A few years ago I wrote the following article and hey.. my predictions have become fact… except that Europe didn’t plan it and instead of embracing it they are trying to avoid it. Slow Economic Fantasy Is a bigger economy the way to go? How much can something grow before it causes you problems....

05/07/2012 3:39 pm

No-plant, Dig-only: Cold Dressing

The NO-PLANT,DIG-ONLY vegetable garden methodology has liberated my freezer and fridge from their horticultural storage duties and hence the accommodation is now a little too ample for my six cans of lager and year old bag of frozen peas. Therefore I have decided to optimize the space by converting them...

04/24/2012 6:38 pm

No-plant, Dig-only: Aspiring Little Greens People

Many youngsters who are being forced-fed vegetables by their parents and overzealous school dinner ladies have contacted me to express their support for the NO-PLANT, DIG-ONLY vegetable garden. Many have asked for more details on how to get their parents involved and maybe even start a school horticulture...

04/16/2012 11:51 pm

No-plant, dig only vegetable garden

I just love digging up vegetable beds and can’t think of anything better than spending an afternoon with my hands in the dirt, head in the sun and beer can in the hand. Unfortunately, not every afternoon! hence last year’s vegetable crop was quantitatively very low. I believe that lucrative distant...

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...

08/31/2011 2:06 pm

Walk-In Darwinian Wardrobe (Evolving Man Drawers)

Many of you will be familiar with the man drawer, usually located in the kitchen and full of ever so useful things. Well this phenomena if left unchecked can easily mutate, evolve and spread to the whole house especially for born again bachelors. In just a few months I have successfully managed to convert...

08/19/2011 1:14 am

Red Hot Chili Peppers go Walkabouts

They are the hottest thing in town at the moment, the red hot chili peppers have moved to Barga Vecchia. As news of their arrival spread, people flocked to see their live performance and as expected they put on a scorching show. Although the official show is now over, the chilies have decided to...

07/23/2011 4:54 pm

Seamless High-Rise Tomatoes Seek New Home

No I didn’t mean seedless, It’s not a spelling mistake, my high-rise tomatoes home is literally falling apart at the seams. The sun has roasted the canvas carrier bag that they have been hanging about in, it is now rotting to pieces. I called in a local tailor, but with no inside leg to measure there...

07/03/2011 7:31 pm

Cat gardeners

No, not my gardening skills, I am talking about real cats, Luna and Tiger who in the past few months have been helping me out in the orto. Tiger took a liking to the strawberries, she climbed up and somehow managed to sit in the bucket, in the end she got used to it and was happily swinging to and throw. ...

06/20/2011 7:21 pm

How to grow high rise bonsai tomatoes

I like to think positively hence I have changed the title and objective of this article and hey presto everything is a success. The technique for growing successful bonsai tomatoes is very similar to that used for the upside down tomatoes, in fact it is exactly the same but with the added advantage...

05/31/2011 1:52 am

Three wheeler Potatoes

Just to recap …. I wanted to plant a few potatoes in the raised bed vegetable patch but unfortunately the amount of lateral space available wouldn’t yield enough potatoes to fill a chip butty. So, why not think vertically and grow them upwards I thought. A few clicks on the net and bingo,...

05/25/2011 11:15 pm

Tomato SU-GO

Tomato SU-GO which in Anglo-Italian roughly translates to Pomodoro UP-VA. An unexpected turn of events, the upside-down tomatoes have done a U turn and are now going up in the world. They have seen the light and are heading for it. Scientifically does this mean that tomatoes are stronger than gravity,...

05/13/2011 8:28 pm

High Rise Tomatoes

Whilst I was about to plant my tomatoes a couple of southern hemisphere thoughts popped into my mind. I started to think laterally about their vertical position and came to the conclusion that tomatoes grow perpendicular to the earth’s surface, hence southern hemisphere tomatoes grow upside down...

04/27/2011 3:42 pm

Raised Beds: High-Rise Potatoes

High-Rised Potatoes I wanted to plant a few potatoes in the raised bed vegetable patch but unfortunately the amount of lateral space available wouldn’t yield enough potatoes to fill a chip butty. So, why not think vertically and grow them upwards I thought. A few clicks on the net and bingo, tyre-raised...

04/15/2011 8:12 am

Raised Beds

Between what I plant, what I grow, what I think is, what I grow, What you want to grow, what you actually grow, and if it actually grows… there are ten possibilities that I still have to go to the supermarket. But try anyway! I was trying to explain to an old neighbour the idea behind a raised...

02/15/2001 4:11 pm

Moans and Groans

Local has become public Public has gone loco Wine has got hot Beer is not cold Prices are going up Tourists are too much Girls are all over Boys are shut out Good talk has gone Burps are no more K is not drinking Rest are not thinking As an acquaintance of mine once said “Pipa di più o Trombi di meno”