Red currant jam
Frozen red currants from the 2023 harvest. Less than two weeks to moving out of the house and move to Grenoble. Clearing and packing. One of the things that we…
Gardening
Wild strawberries from the garden
Unlike the last two years, I haven’t done any germination of seeds this year. In the last two years around end March, ever since we bought the house, I would…
Buying a beer for slugs
Spring is here. Weather is warmer. Colours are back. Flowers are everywhere. Life is dandy, right? No! My garden is being marauded by slugs and snails, and I don’t know…
Update on my tomatoes
In my last post on 4 March, I started the new homegrown vegetable season by sowing tomato seeds. I planted 3 tomato varieties in 9 little pots and left them…
More vegetables and fruits to come…
Mesclun greens, Carrots and Spinach I have not been lazing around since the sowing of the tomato seeds. I followed up two weeks later sowing the seeds of carrots, spinach…