After an abscence I am back with a query. Last summer in the UK I grew two varieties of Courgettes, Tondo and Fiorentina, because of the glut I decided to preserve them in OLive Oil.
Jus to say hello, I was on the previous forum but as Robert, because of a previous mistake by me setting up the old account. Still based in UK but Umbria is still the target!!
Hope you both have a great time, Firenze will be crowded and there will be lots of walking tours led by all manner of umbrellas, scarves etc. The winner, when I was there, was a tour led by a woman with a professional looking badge on a stick proclaiming her to be from "Trumpy Tours". The howls of laughter when I told the staf a the language school what it also menat was one of the highlights of my stay.
I was always led to believe that the problems are caused by the soil that the plant is transferred in rather then the roots, so bare root transfer avoids that problem. We have brought plants from Madeira in this way. Orchids are sometimes sold in gel out there but I prefer the bare root method, with sufficient protection.
I spoke to Barclays a few months ago, I rang the number advertised for Barclays Italy and was advised that I should go to one of their four branches in Italy and open an account that way. At that stage it could not be opened in the UK but he did indicate that that situation may change. I should just say that I used to work for Barclays!
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Hope you both have a great time, Firenze will be crowded and there will be lots of walking tours led by all manner of umbrellas, scarves etc. The winner, when I was there, was a tour led by a woman with a professional looking badge on a stick proclaiming her to be from "Trumpy Tours". The howls of laughter when I told the staf a the language school what it also menat was one of the highlights of my stay.
I was always led to believe that the problems are caused by the soil that the plant is transferred in rather then the roots, so bare root transfer avoids that problem. We have brought plants from Madeira in this way. Orchids are sometimes sold in gel out there but I prefer the bare root method, with sufficient protection.
I spoke to Barclays a few months ago, I rang the number advertised for Barclays Italy and was advised that I should go to one of their four branches in Italy and open an account that way. At that stage it could not be opened in the UK but he did indicate that that situation may change. I should just say that I used to work for Barclays!
The "dream" area has been chosen, now the difficult work begins.
Ooh heck - innit different. Ah well. bash on regardless