As I look back to our pictures from this first confinement, now that we are just starting the second one, I can only be thankfull for what we have here Seeds start coming out!Those directly in soil as wellComfrey gardeningTuscany cabbageSorrelBlack radishIt's planting...
September has been quite hot and the kitchen garden keeps happily producing. This year I have added many varieties of onions, and a few peppers... most actually turn out to be way too spicy for us, so they are mostly a photooportunity before being gifted out to some...
We have now hit the "Corne d'abondance" point, to which it impossible to keep up eating daily what the garden produces, especially tomatoes so I am experimenting with the age old conserve making (tomato coulis, ubiquitous in Provencal cuisine) All the ratatouille...
The garden has now turned into a jungle!! The tomatoes are climbing up, the courgettes and melons spreading way out of their garden bed Strawberries keep coming out! On the lower left corner of the picture, a leave of Comfrey that I use as organic fertiliser, plants...
Because food is quite high in our priorities, especially tasty food, we are monitoring our brand new kitchen garden weekly, and although (or rather because) we only use comfrey as fertiliser, it's growing like weed: the aromatic square is pretty much filled up by...
This being the first year, we are watching the kitchen garden closely, in particular the strawberries that are literally turning red before our eyes, very exciting!! We also added quite a few lavender planters on the steps, thereby creating a mini lavender field to...
Following the happy experience with dry gardening, and thanks to the very inspiring movie "Demain" (see link here) I ended up after quite a bit of research, digesting and making mine the concepts of permaculture in order to apply them to our garden. As all this is a...
Like many people, I have been brainstorming about how to make the future better (or just less worse maybe ?) for our children. An intelligent use of the property we are lucky enough to have seemed to be one of the obvious way forward. Instinctively, the manicured...
The heart of the home, our kitchen opens on both patio and terrace, and also communicates with the dining room. It is equipped with a La Cornue oven and hob, double under the counter fridges, freezer, microwave, Miele dishwasher, kitchen aid mixer, coffee machine and...
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