Spinach harvest
My second harvest from my vegetable garden is Spinach! I will be Popeye the Sailor Man! The seeds were sowed end March and seedlings popped out in a couple of…
House & Garden In France
New lease of life
Since the warmer weather is finally here and my teaching load is lighter in this semester, I have more time to dabble in the garden. It means that I can…
Beautiful lettuce
The second batch of oak leaf lettuce, flourishing in my garden. I have finally decided to try the laitue feuille de chêne or oak leaf lettuce from our garden. It…
Spring is here…almost
Thanks to the former house owner, I am now enjoying the flowers of her labour. It’s our first spring in the house that we bought last July. Since we only…
Gardener quest (Part 2)
It was half way through autumn and I still had not found a jardinier or a gardener. For the past few months, I had been looking after the garden myself–weeding…