Bio , thanks for update Never had grape jelly , sounds nice Going to an Apple Day 🍎 on Sunday at Gunby Hall , a National Trust property , will be taking some little apples that grow on a tree in our garden , to see if they can ID them , about the size of a carb apple but eatable Soup fetes ? Sounds different , do you try different soups 🍵 and I assume for sale as well ? Chateau sounds grand 🏛, have a good fair
Mange Ta Soupe is a Festival all over Normandy held in different towns during October. You are invited to take soup along for tasting, or you can just go along and have a mug. It is all free with recipes to pick up/demonstrations and a Farmers Market. Great for a family outing as free and purely educational.
Saw very tatty fox this morning crossing field opposite. Herons making a racket round the pond next door, and wonderful owls last night. Sat outside with nightcap and just listened. So many stars to see here as we are out nowhere near towns so get good dark skies. Nice today again. Dahlias look great. Think I shall make Rock Cakes for Saturday Market. getting bored not baking! -Only stopped for 2 days! -Made Quince & Apple Sauce for freezing this am. Having Roast Piglet (Porcelet)on Sunday -will go well.
Our friends have now gone on to the Ile de Ré for a couple of nights but sat out last night looking at all the stars and Milky Way from our back garden. No streetlights and the moon not yet risen so very clear views.
I am now reducing the grape concoction prior to potting up and then I'll have to go and see if there are more toms to process. OH said we should expect rain on Saturday but it all seems to have gone away again and there's none in view for the next 10 days.
Sewing then, not sowing.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Yes -Rain predicted here Saturday -but still saving water butts as really hot again. Greenhouse 30degrees this morning. Hope it continues. I like October. Mellow fruitfullness and all that!! Ate first Mesclun I have ever grown myself last night -really tasty. Just chucked all opened packets of salad leaves on Raised Bed not expecting anything to happen, and lots of goodies sprouted. Does it cut and come again? Lambs Lettuce 'Mache' coming on well too.
I grew mesclun in Harrow, decades ago. It's just a mix of different salad leaves and yes, cut and come again. Not keen on mâche.
The tourists have gone so our short trip to the local coast on Tuesday was perfect - wide open beaches with just a few people about so the dogs could run off the lead and normal noise, people and traffic levels at Les Sables yesterday. It'll be the same on Ile de Ré. We haven't been there yet but will get there out of season. Love La Rochelle.
Forgot to mention that there was a chap at the market in the Halles at les Sables yesterday selling orange and red beef tomatoes for 18€95 a kilo!! We've been having one each of yellow, red and orange plus Brandywine as a platter. Easily more than a kilo there.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
A friend shred this on FB - photo showing the way the moon behaves over its cycle - ascending and descending as well as waxing and waning. Gorgeous too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
That photo is amazing -Shows exactly what we have all been talking about really well. Gosh what a rip off re Price Toms. Up here Beef ones 2.99Euros Kg. My clients tell me that Stilton in Paris is 78Euros a Kg (About £72)!!! Marmite here is 8.50Euros (£7) There's a limit to profiteering. Grow your Own is the best option! Going to sow some Chinese leaves on next Leaf Day to bring on in greenhouse. Last time cats ate them!! -Cultured Cats??! -I know pet shops sell Cat Grass to sow or in little pots. - I object tro my gang eating MY salad!
Making Apple & Walnut Cookies with Chestnut Honey this afternoon for Farmer's Market tomorrow. -Enjoy your Apple Day GWRS.
Lifted Redcurrants that were really unhappy last night. Have decided to edge Potager in semi shade with them. They just can't take the sun where I had put them before. Perhaps they are a woodland plant like raspberries and strawberries?
That Stilton is a rip off. There's a British "supermarket" in Belgium with branches at Everberg and Waterloo and I thought it was expensive at 25€50 the last time I bought it a few years ago. They also had white Stilton and Bouncing Berry and Yarg and the smelly bishop cheese and proper Cheddar for similar prices. Quite a good range but we learned to wait for Xmas supplies of Stilton in our local SM and embraced Vieux Bruges which I now prefer to Cheddar. Lots of lovely Belgian and now French cheeses for OH to enjoy.
Redcurrants do better in partial shade but can take Belgian sun if they have enough water in the soil. Here I have them in shade but they've still suffered this summer. Not sure they'll ever be really happy with all the droughts we get.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hello all Picture amazing 🌙 Apple and Walnut cookies with Honey sounds fad , thinking about a walnut tree for Allotment but have to be carful where you plant them I read , still looking into it ?
Had a few hours today at allotment today , have a Guinness or 2 before dinner , to recover 🍺 Bio , what about Cat Mint 🌿? Stilton one of my favourite cheeses Glad we are all keeping busy , happy gardening 🌾
Walnut trees have a natural inhibitor that stops other trees growing under the canopy of the parent tree to reduce competition for resources. I assume it inhibits other plants too as I saw on Beechgrove recently that CB said their whole leaves shouldn't be used as mulch on borders either as they inhibit perennials and shrubs too but could be broken down in a compost heap or leaf pile and were then fine. We have one in our garden but there's only grass underneath and that seems fine - well it would be if we had some rain.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Never had grape jelly , sounds nice
Going to an Apple Day 🍎 on Sunday at Gunby Hall , a National Trust property , will be taking some little apples that grow on a tree in our garden , to see if they can ID them , about the size of a carb apple but eatable
Soup fetes ? Sounds different , do you try different soups 🍵 and I assume for sale as well ?
Chateau sounds grand 🏛, have a good fair
I am now reducing the grape concoction prior to potting up and then I'll have to go and see if there are more toms to process. OH said we should expect rain on Saturday but it all seems to have gone away again and there's none in view for the next 10 days.
Sewing then, not sowing.
The tourists have gone so our short trip to the local coast on Tuesday was perfect - wide open beaches with just a few people about so the dogs could run off the lead and normal noise, people and traffic levels at Les Sables yesterday. It'll be the same on Ile de Ré. We haven't been there yet but will get there out of season. Love La Rochelle.
Forgot to mention that there was a chap at the market in the Halles at les Sables yesterday selling orange and red beef tomatoes for 18€95 a kilo!! We've been having one each of yellow, red and orange plus Brandywine as a platter. Easily more than a kilo there.
Redcurrants do better in partial shade but can take Belgian sun if they have enough water in the soil. Here I have them in shade but they've still suffered this summer. Not sure they'll ever be really happy with all the droughts we get.
Picture amazing 🌙
Apple and Walnut cookies with Honey sounds fad , thinking about a walnut tree for Allotment but have to be carful where you plant them I read , still looking into it ?
Had a few hours today at allotment today , have a Guinness or 2 before dinner , to recover 🍺
Bio , what about Cat Mint 🌿?
Stilton one of my favourite cheeses
Glad we are all keeping busy , happy gardening 🌾