by Ellen Wallace, GL editor Pumpkins love our garden and we love pumpkins: this weekend the season for cooking pumpkin kicked in seriously. We have some 60 small ones. The larger ones are fun when kids are little, but the small varieties tend to have more flavour and they are more manageable in the kitchen. […]
Archives for October 2009
Gardeners: time to shop for grasses
Someone asked me recently for advice on what plants to grow in the Alps, in mountainous areas. I’m still reflecting on this and will write about it later, but two things came to mind immediately, because they have been so easy to grow: pumpkins, which love to run down a slope, and wild grasses, which […]
A magnificent year, with sunshine in our 2009 wine bottles
The dry autumn may be hard on our gardens, but you won’t hear grapegrowers and winemakers in Switzerland complaining: 2009 was being praised in early September as a great year for wine, and that was while everyone was still hoping the sunshine would hold out during the grape harvest. It has, making the grape-picking a […]
Cisalpino carries first passengers from Geneva airport to Venice
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A Cisalpino II train made its maiden Geneva-Venice voyage Thursday October 1, leaving Geneva’s Cointrin Airport at 07:33 and bringing back its first passengers from Venice at 16:20. The trains have been running on the Geneva-Milan stretch since July, on a test basis, and with the positive track record of the […]