Valls Festival · 22 Oct 2026
Valls Calçotada Festival 2027: programme and visitor guide
A Sunday of open fires, dipping sauce and lively squares. Plan your visit to the Gran Festa, including Plaça de l'Oli and a vermouth stop…
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Valls Festival · 22 Oct 2026
Calçotada de Valls Festival 2026: programme archive
The 44th edition was held on Sunday, 25 January 2026. This archive preserves a selection of activities announced for that…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2025: programme and chronicle
The 43rd Gran Festa de la Calçotada de Valls was held on Sunday, 26 January 2025. It was an edition with a special context: the calçotada opened…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2023: programme and new route
On Sunday, 29 January 2023, Valls celebrated the 41st Gran Festa de la Calçotada. The edition recovered the crowd pulse before the pandemic...
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2022: the return to the squares
The 40th Gran Festa de la Calçotada de Valls was held on 23 January 2022. It was the return of the festival to streets and squares after the suspension of…
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Valls Calçotada Festival 2021: the year it was cancelled
In 2021 the Gran Festa de la Calçotada de Valls was not celebrated. The organisation suspended the day due to health and mobility restrictions...
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2020: programme and memories
The 39th Gran Festa de la Calçotada was celebrated on Sunday, 26 January 2020, with activities throughout the weekend. Valls received dozens of…
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Valls Calçotada Festival 2019: stories and competitors
On 27 January 2019 Valls celebrated the 38th Gran Festa de la Calçotada. The archive of that day brings together a city full of visitors, the…
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Valls Calçotada Festival 2018: a record-breaking year
The 37th Gran Festa de la Calçotada was held on 28 January 2018. The weekend combined cuisine, popular culture and tastings, and was…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2017: games, sauces and tradition
On Sunday, 29 January 2017, the 36th Gran Festa de la Calçotada took place. The edition expanded the ways to approach calçot with a game and…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2016: 25 years of the sauce competition
The 35th Gran Festa de la Calçotada was held on 31 January 2016. It was the year of the 25th anniversary of the calçotada sauce competition, within a…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2015: programme and new champion
On 25 January 2015, the 34th Gran Festa de la Calçotada de Valls was held. The edition had a new winner of the calçots eating contest and…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2014: the Gegant and a record
The 33rd Gran Festa de la Calçotada was held on 26 January 2014. It was an edition with two especially clear memories: the 25 years of the Gegant…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2013: a tradition that travels
On 27 January 2013 Valls celebrated the 32nd Gran Festa de la Calçotada. The edition allows us to see how the local tradition aroused interest far from…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2012: programme and winners
Valls celebrated the 31st Gran Festa de la Calçotada on Sunday, 29 January 2012. The historic centre once again brought together cuisine, popular culture and…
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Calçotada de Valls Festival 2011: programme and video from the archive
The Gran Festa de la Calçotada of 2011 was celebrated on Sunday, January 23. It was brought forward a week so as not to coincide with the Festes Decennals de la Mare…
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Valls Calçotada Festival 2010: memories from the original archive
The Gran Festa de la Calçotada de Valls was celebrated on 31 January 2010. Two original publications from Calsotada.com allow us to recover how…
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Valls calçots eating contest: history, record and winners
Bibs covered in sauce, eyes on the clock and a result decided by weight. Discover the history of Valls' calçot-eating contest…
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Adrià Wegrzyn's calçots record: what the 5,825 grams mean
The 310 calçots of Adrià Wegrzyn are part of Valls' memory. But the decisive figure of that 2018 performance was another: 5,825 grams.…
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Valls calçots competition 2026: Xavier Currius wins with almost four kilos
On 25 January 2026, Xavier Currius became the new champion with 3,970 grams and 109 calçots…
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News · 27 Oct 2026
Calçofest Valls 2025 and 2026: posters, times and visitor guide
Calçots at lunchtime, music until dawn and a city to explore. Discover the first Calçofest in 2025 and the programme announced for 2026.
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Valls Festival · 15 Jan 2024
Gran Festa de la Calçotada 2024
Programme of the Gran Festa de la Calçotada de Valls, an essential event Next January 28 is celebrated in Valls, the capital of the region of…
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Calçotada · 8 Feb 2016
Wine for a calçotada
Every Calçotada needs the best wines to drink! In this case we enter the city of origin of the Calçots where you can find the…
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News · 20 Sep 2015
Vermouth Guide
Until the Calçots season starts we can wait calmly having a good vermouth and to find out more about this delicious drink you can...
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Recipes · 7 Sep 2015
Calçots sauce ingredients
The big question: what is the best recipe for calçot sauce? My answer is always the same: the better and tastier the ingredients…
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Recipes · 7 Sep 2015
The best Calçots Sauce
Soon the best Calçots in the world will begin to be harvested, the Calçots de Valls grown in Valls. And like all Calçotada there is nothing...
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News · 14 Jun 2012
Buying cava for Sant Joan's Eve
Sant Joan is almost here: time for bonfires, friends, food, coca pastries, firecrackers and a bottle of cava…
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Restaurants · 27 Jan 2012
Calçots and Restaurants website!
Website where you can upload photos of your calçotada or see which restaurant to go to eat them. 🙂 Web: Calçots How does Calçots work? Enter the website of…
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Calçots · 6 Nov 2011
Websites about calçots and related products
The Calçots season starts soon and from the website we want you not to miss a photo, a contest, or any information about…
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Human towers in Valls for Santa Úrsula (video)
While the calçots grow, Valls celebrates Santa Úrsula with human towers by the Colla Vella and the Colla Joves…
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Valls Festival · 24 Jan 2011
Video of the Gran Festa de la Calçotada in Valls
The big day in Valls! The calçotada festival was celebrated! We hope you like the video and it encourages those who have never visited this great…
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Valls Festival · 22 Jan 2011
The Great Calçotada de Valls 2011
Tomorrow, January 23, in Valls we are almost celebrating a major festival, as one of the most culinary festivals in the entire world is celebrated. The great Calçotada…
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Calçots with true roots
A saying shared on our Facebook page celebrates food and its origins: Jabugo ham, Rioja wine and calçots from Valls…
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News · 30 June 2010
Firagost 2010 in Valls
The 56th Firagost agricultural fair comes to Valls on 3 and 4 August, bringing together craftspeople, farmers and visitors…
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News · 21 Jun 2010
Who is the Dalí of Valls?
Walking through Valls' old town, I met a charismatic local character on a terrace in Plaça de l'Oli…
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Buying and planting seeds for calçots
The other day I went to buy seedlings for the garden and in the immensity of the seed envelopes for the garden or for the home, I found this…
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How to prepare a Bóladis?
And the 2010 video. I have to confess... that I have never tried it. And searching, searching the little that I have found, turned out to be this brief recipe, although...
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News · 16 Jun 2010
Festa Major Sant Joan de Valls 2010
Next June 19th until the 25th of the same month. The City of Valls is decked out to celebrate its great festival. The FESTA MAJOR OF SANT JOAN to…
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Video of the Patum of Berga
Life in the countryside isn't only calçots and olives. Here is a video of La Patum, one of Catalonia's most distinctive festivals…
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Recipes · 5 May 2010
How to make salvitxada, the sauce for calçots
I had been meaning to publish this post, and then I found this video showing how to make calçot sauce and explaining what it is…
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Calçots · 1 Apr 2010
The end of the calçot season
Tomorrow we will collect the last Calçots from our garden. The truth is that the initial forecast was very bad. Since before starting the season...
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A saying about calçots
While waiting for the embers, we came up with a tongue-twister about calçots…
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Resolutions for 2010
Companies normally prepare at the end of the year a little for the year ahead based on the vision of the future that their CEOs or…
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Restaurants · 14 Jan 2010
Restaurants for a calçotada
What is the best restaurant to make a calçotada? Which makes the best Sauce? Where can I compare between most of them? What restaurant is this…
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Burning the prunings
Yesterday, searching through the computer, I found this video that I recorded the day they gave me permission to burn (October), since I had a good…
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Valls Festival · 9 Jan 2010
Panorama Photo of Calçotada de Valls.
For those of you who are intrigued by what this great festival really is where what is mostly done is eat Calçots and drink good wine. You…
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Group Summary
I don't know if you know, but Calsotada.com belongs to a group of websites in which we jointly support each other and can be stronger for actions...
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News · 7 Jan 2010
Three Kings Day in Can Pepitu.
As in all houses, Three Kings Day is so magical, enigmatic, fun and in Can Pepitu it can't be any other way than with a little aroma of…
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Calçots · 7 Jan 2010
Happy New Year 2010 and Many Calçots!
A little late, but here in “Can Pepitu” something is brewing… 😉 Between the Christmas holidays, the three kings, the 12 little ones who don't…
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Recipes · 29 Dec 2009
How to cook calçots
About three years ago I wrote about cooking calçots on pepitu.com, when I was just discovering the world of the calçot. 😉 Now that I have this website…
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About the Closing of the Blog.
Hmmm… hehehe. The calçots continue to grow and so do the flowers! So I like this blog, but after all the emails I have received...
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We're closing the blog
As announced yesterday on pepitu.com (one of the group's main websites), we are closing the website, within 2 or 3 days all the…
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News · 20 Dec 2009
A billy goat at Can Pepitu
Hehe 😉 This thing about living in the country has its good things and some bad things. And on Friday afternoon I left the house for a while to go shopping...
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News · 18 Dec 2009
The Valls calendar.
Valls are not just Calçots, although for a month you have only seen calçots everywhere. The city has two large “colles castelleres”, some…
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News · 13 Dec 2009
A farmer's letter to the Three Kings
The other day while organising the study I found a list that I made 4 years ago. When I lived in Barcelona and worked for a multinational that...
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A week with my Stihl MS 230 chainsaw.
A few days ago I talked about which chainsaw to buy, just when my whole family gave me one for my birthday. 😛 After a week of…
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News · 9 Dec 2009
Tomato Soup. Swedish recipe.
Pia, one of our regular readers, sent us this traditional Swedish tomato soup recipe…
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Calçots · 9 Dec 2009
What is a Calçot like?
A few years ago a designation of origin was established for this onion as PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) “Calçot de Valls” What…
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The calçot rumba
I'm sure that many of you who come here have not even heard of this onion that is so... so... magical. And some of you may have heard it before but...
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News · 8 Dec 2009
Rural Social Network or Forum.
I have been thinking about what I do for a long time. Since I set up the forum here on the web, I began the development of implementing social networks (type…
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News · 7 Dec 2009
The family at Can Pepitu is growing
Hehe, if we already had little time now we will have less. At “Can Pepitu” we love dogs, so much that they are part of the family and we try…
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Valls Festival · 5 Dec 2009
Gran Festa de la Calçotada in Valls.
I am pleased to announce that on January 31, one of the most fun and different festivals is celebrated in Catalonia or the entire world. The Great Feast of…
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How are Calçots planted?
Written manual and with photos. Now that we have a little more time, we can further develop the pending topics we had and the star topic...
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News · 5 Dec 2009
Garden tips: fig-tree firewood
You can let the fig firewood dry, spray it with gasoline, cut it into pieces, wet it, etc... But the fig firewood does not burn. It's impossible. So...
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News · 4 Dec 2009
Buying a chainsaw
Our old chainsaw at Can Pepitu had broken down. Here's how I went about choosing its replacement…
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Garden tips: wood ash
If you have a fireplace or wood stove at home, you will surely produce piles of ash... Well, your garden will appreciate it, but not the pieces of coal...
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News · 1 Dec 2009
The website is growing at full speed
Another month passes and I just have to thank you all and especially those who come in every day, from time to time or all the new ones who come in for…
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News · 1 Dec 2009
My Wood Stove. Problems and Solutions.
Now that it's really cold and things like a wood stove are interesting to look at, I'm going to tell you about my experience. Since I was very little...
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News · 30 Nov 2009
We finished the Arbequina olive harvest!
And we are here again. In the countryside there are things that you cannot miss even a day or finish as soon as possible since it can be very...
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News · 25 Nov 2009
How to plant purple garlic
Now that the cold is starting, between olive trees we clear our heads for a while by planting garlic, the usual ones. 😉 My first idea was to look for some…
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News · 20 Nov 2009
Artichokes in the garden.
I have to confess that in Sunday's paella I cooked the first of them. And like everything you create with care and care is tasty,…
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News · 19 Nov 2009
How to harvest chard
After my post about starting the chard harvest, readers asked how to pick it and which leaves to choose…
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News · 18 Nov 2009
The Oranges of Can Pepitu.
Today when it was getting dark I stopped picking olives to go pick 4 Oranges. Yes, the first of the year. We have 5 orange trees, but they do…
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News · 17 Nov 2009
How I discovered how hot a Chili Pepper is.
This post is one of those things that surely no one would tell you. Or that it only happens to those of us who leave the city and enter the worlds of the countryside.…
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Tricks and Secrets of the Garden: Impossible to predict.
Never promise a garden job will be finished tomorrow: the weather and the countryside don't always follow our plans…
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News · 15 Nov 2009
One day in November in Can Pepitu.
Ever wondered what a farmer does all day? Here is a full November day at Can Pepitu, from the first coffee to the olive mill…
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News · 14 Nov 2009
Harvest Day: Arbequina olives
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News · 12 Nov 2009
The people behind the website
We've been short of time. Even with darkness falling at 6, there is plenty to do in the fields before we can update the website…
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Rural Survey.
Today we start the surveys on the web to be able to enhance some sections a little more. Since this started only for Calçots and now covers a…
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News · 6 Nov 2009
Homemade Cheesecake from Can Pepitu.
Can Pepitu's recipes arrive on the website with a homemade cheesecake that brings back memories of my grandmother…
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News · 5 Nov 2009
Growing a Muscat grapevine
How many of you have not stopped in any field to pick a good bunch of grapes from the extensive vineyards that we have in Spain? Although the…
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News · 4 Nov 2009
Types of Wood Stoves.
Now that the cold is approaching, it is time to talk about one of the most important tools that we can have at home or in the garage. And it is the…
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News · 3 Nov 2009
The practice plot
If because of those things in life you have the opportunity to start growing a garden, whether it is a large piece of land or a small one. It is recommended…
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News · 3 Nov 2009
Today we start harvesting the chard
25 days after transplanting the chard seedlings, we can start harvesting the largest leaves…
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News · 2 Nov 2009
Growing spinach from seed
We have prepared level beds at Can Pepitu to compare two ways of growing spinach: transplanting seedlings and broadcast sowing…
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News · 1 Nov 2009
Wheelbarrows full of thanks
Here's to a fantastic month for the Web. With things like this I can only say that I will try to improve the content as much as possible and be more assiduous. Since I have closed...
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News · 1 Nov 2009
Autumn moments: ploughing with the tractor
With the garden in order, the calçots earthed up and the Arbequina olives ripening, it is time to plough…
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News · 30 Oct 2009
Buy Aloe Vera in Can Pepitu.
My mother always grew aloe vera at home. Years later, it found a place at Can Pepitu too…
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Calçotada · 29 Oct 2009
Calçotada & Twitts
This word Calçotada and Twitts or calçot&twitts has been around my Twitter for a long time. And what is this? Well, it's a meeting of Twitter users (users of…
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News · 22 Oct 2009
Rain gauges for the field
The Rain Gauge is an instrument used to measure precipitation. For the installation it is very important that we do not have any obstacles...
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Calçots · 20 Oct 2009
The properties of calçots
The other day following a comment from the calçot Facebook fan page. I started to investigate a little about it, arriving at the following…
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News · 19 Oct 2009
A permit for burning garden waste
Prunings and weeds quickly pile up on a smallholding. This 2009 account explains how I requested permission to burn them…
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News · 5 Oct 2009
My SaHer sprayer has broken down
I was spraying the olive trees when the sprayer suddenly stopped working. Here is how I arranged the repair…
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Calçots · 3 Oct 2009
Earthing up calçots: part 1, clearing the ground
Earthing up is essential when growing calçots — and gives them their name. First, clear the weeds around the plants…
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News · 1 Oct 2009
We already have a logo!
And how could it be less, it's a Calçot! Calçot de Valls toon © 2009 by Eli Aranda is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International…
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Calçots · 26 Sep 2009
Buying onion bulbs for calçots
A busy week of spraying olive and orange trees and planting another batch of onions for calçots…
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News · 25 Sep 2009
Agricultural Diesel for the tractor.
With the tractor's fuel container almost empty, I set out to find where to buy agricultural diesel…
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Tricks and Secrets of the garden: “Never leave it”
The garden is sacred, dedicate even 10 minutes a day to it, otherwise the weeds will make your existence bitter and...
Read the article ↗Calçots · 23 Sep 2009
Planting distances for calçots
Spacing the onion bulbs leaves room for growth and for the soil needed to earth up the calçots…
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News · 21 Sep 2009
Machinery: The Barreiros 4000-v tractor
A rotary cultivator can handle a vegetable garden. For larger areas and olive trees, our Barreiros tractor does the heavy work…
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News · 17 Sep 2009
What vegetables to plant in September?
Today the sun is radiant and we have entered the garden to plant: Calçots: They say that from mid-September onwards it is too late to…
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News · 16 Sep 2009
A radish's first day of life
The first radish leaves have appeared in our seedling trays. Soon they will go into the ground, then onto the table…
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News · 15 Sep 2009
A Rainy Day in the Country.
Rainy days are ideal for tidying the garage, doing the accounts, greasing machinery and preparing seedlings…
Read the article ↗News · 13 Sep 2009
Garden tips: level ground
The garden always has to be flat, with the slopes we will lose the crops and the…
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News · 12 Sep 2009
Hanging up the chillies to dry
The chillies are ripe: time to hang them up to dry and save a few seeds for next year's crop…
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News · 10 Sep 2009
When are vegetables planted in the Garden?
One of my main tools that I use to keep up with what needs to be planted and what not, is this separate annual calendar…
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Calçots · 6 Sep 2009
The calçot: everything has a beginning
A Calçot that was born in Valls for the entire…
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