11. The Garden

There was a good-sized vegetable garden at Il Poggio and a larger forested plot of land surrounding the buildings. 

I enjoyed working amongst the vegetables and walking and sitting in the small forest.


There was a young Welshman who came around often who planted and worked in the garden and who also helped with building maintenance and the general yard-work and so forth required. I forget his name but lets call him Peter (Pete for short). He was an important high-energy member of the Il Poggio family.

Pete and I worked side by side in the hot sun weeding, watering and taking care of the tomatoes, squash, onions and--most especially--the broad beans, of which he was most particularly  partial. In fact he had brought these broad bean seeds with him from his old family garden in Wales and so the beans  were familiar to him and he claimed them to be Welsh broad-beans generations old.  Pete absolutely loved his broad beans! 

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