We ’ve get some cool looking slugs here in Italy .
This first photo is one of the dark ones I look in the garden this week . I ’m pretty sure he ’s in the Arion genus . take down the red stripe on his tail end and the turquoise fleck on his sides . A beautiful beast . The big intelligence in the garden is that I got the new coldframe go under up this week .
It ’s a manure heat coldframe that I build for an article I ’m writing on the subject area . The Romans used this proficiency in their isinglass - covered coldframes to farm vegetables . The exposure exhibit the loge build underneath to hold the manure , and the glass covered coldframe above .
I ’ve painted the box in stripes of blanched and grey sort of as a joke . In mediaeval times , the nobility in this area used grade insignia of white marble and grey slate to build up their fab churches and palace . I tell my neighbors the box seat is the Castello dei Fieschi . ( The Fieschi family were one of the Genoese Doria folk ’s big rival .
My architectural plan is to use the manure heating for two months in the other spring , when the seedling will appreciate the bottom heating . Then for the rest of the twelvemonth I ’ll make compost in the box .
I ’ve tally a hop-picker on the left side for adding the day-by-day veggie reject from our kitchen and a braggart door on the right side so I ’ll be able to launch the boxwood and turn the compost spate with a rake . I ’m really quite proud of with the clever design . I ’m trusted I ’ll determine out afterward what ’s wrong with my theory .
I just bed how Pride goeth before a gloaming . Of naturally , my rejoicing about the exploding love apple last week has been followed by the first find of fungus this week .
I had one plant so infected that the unripened yield were streak brownness , so I cut that out and I also sheer out three other plants to make more way between the remaining plants .
I conceive the plants had grown so full-grown that they were herd each other , and then after a workweek of warm and humid atmospheric condition , the plants could n’t dry out out and unadulterated conditions for the fungus were created .
I call up this fungus is Phytophthora infestans , the same fungus that caused the Irish Potato disaster . It ’s somewhat mutual in Europe , but not so much in the state .
Losing four of my thirty love apple plants freaked me out a bit , but yesterday I planted four raw flora in a remote patio .
It ’s been a few days now since I ’ve seen any new sign of fungus , and I ’ve again got my fingerbreadth crossed .
I ’ve also painted the exterior of the coldframe dark green , and while I wish it , my married woman says it ’s frightful , and encounter with the grey and bloodless stripes on the boxwood . Oh well , a nurseryman ’s life is never easy .
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