“I’d basically given up on my monstera. Three weeks of Nonna’s tonic and it’s pushing out new leaves. I’m shocked.”
Rosa, Sant’Agata · 1962
il dottore delle piante
Meet Nonna Rosa
It started on a balcony above the Bay of Naples.
In a little village called Sant’Agata, Rosa couldn’t afford shop-bought fertilizer. So she fed her plants the way her mother taught her — with what the kitchen gave her. Crushed eggshells. The cooled water from boiling vegetables. A careful pinch of this and that, stirred into the watering can every Sunday after church.
Within one season, hers was the greenest balcony on the street. Soon the whole village was knocking on her door with their dying plants. They called her il dottore delle piante — the plant doctor. For over 60 years, every Sunday, the same recipe.
We finally bottled it. We didn’t change a thing — we just made it easy.
Le piante sentono l’amore.
