It was a very wet, cool spring here and almost every gardener I know is complaining about fungal diseases on their tomatoes. So far I’ve escaped them.
Fall is the perfect time to refresh your garden and keep growing well into winter.
More of my favorite Italian vegetables are starting to produce nicely in the garden these days.
This is the season full of local festivals where the locals gather and all eat together under big tents.
As the first photograph shows, the cucumber crop is doing very nicely this year.
The big news this week is the little jar full of red poppy seeds that I’ve collected.
We haven’t had a raspberry patch since we left our farm a few years ago, and I’ve been anxious to have one ever since but there was never the right place to put it.
We don’t have too may poisonous snakes here in Rapallo. I’ve been hiking around in the woods here for eight years now, and I’ve never even seen one, as hard as I might be trying.
This has been a great year for the garden already.
Learn how to create your own Italian garden with plantings of some of your favorite Italian seasonings in your backyard.
If you relish Italian cuisine, you’ll certainly appreciate the crops that are cultivated in an orto—a traditional Italian garden.
