Skip to main content

not all is lost






After the storm which hit us nearly a fortnight ago the veggie patch has recovered a bit. Many of the tomatoes were damaged (you can see in the photo) so I am resigned to not having many this year. I brought a couple of kilos from an old lady selling them at the market on Sunday, she had containers full of them. I will buy more to freeze once cooked with garlic, basil,seasoning and plenty of rape seed oil.

Swiss chard has new leaves growing as has the lettuce and beans. The first picking of beetroot will be made into a beetroot tart tatin. Courgettes haven't done brilliantly this year, however the ones that are coming are growing very quickly, a blink of the eye and they are nearly marrow size.


In between the weeds beetroot and parsnips are growing (or trying) a little job for next week... and still digging up the potatoes, thinning the carrots and finding the onions.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Happy cattle

For five months the cattle have been eating hay twice a day but today was their time to go back to pasture, they were more than ready. With two loads in the trailer going to La Contie the rest, the naughty but nice ones stayed at La Singlarie. Calves are on green grass for the first time following the herds around. Now for Spring time jobs to get started - so much free time for farmer J. Fencing, tidying around the farm, getting machines ready for hay cutting, getting the gites gardens ready for Summer and a new bathroom to fit, his feet won't be touching the ground.
1 comment
Read more

Rabbit proof fence

In the hope of not loosing anymore greenery in the veggie patch today was spent today taking down an old fence which was put up around eight years ago. As it had a few holes in it this could be where  the rabbits are getting through. On the other side of the fence a chicken run was constructed were table chickens grew to a really good weight until we got a batch that had been, what we think were contagious with Mareks disease. Subsequently we stopped using it for chickens putting a litter of pigs in the area to get them use to electric fencing (which they did). It has been left empty for around 18months now with Gorgon and the girls have made break trough's through it last year gaining access into the veggie patch but now there's a lot of weeds. On the other side of the veggie patch is another old holey fence which has now got the recycled one that was taken down put in front of it, new posts and a trench dug to lower the wire in, earthed up and stones put on top
Post a Comment
Read more