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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Silent Sunday

One of the great things about social media is the ability to chat with people you don't really know and may never meet. This weekend I was chatting with some ladies about the humble French potager, the work involved and the glamour, or lack of it unless you count posh or flowery wellington boots. It got me thinking about my potager, especially as I should have spent the weekend weeding, digging, planting out and watering, but the weather has been horrid, raining all day yesterday, overnight and most of today too. This would have been good news if we had already planted out our summer veggies, but we haven't, mainly due to the weather.

French Village Diaries Silent Sunday photos potager gardeningA definition of a potager is an ornamental vegetable or kitchen garden, often planted with herbs and flowers as well as vegetables to enhance beauty. We use flowers in ours mainly to attract the pollinating insects and to discourage the nasty bugs, but I will agree they do add to the beauty too. Here are some photos of our plot taken in different years and different times of year. I hope you like them too.


French Village Diaries Silent Sunday photos potager gardening 

French Village Diaries Silent Sunday photos potager gardening
 There is always work to do in the potager from weeding to watering or sowing to harvesting, but despite the work it is a very special place to me. It is better exercise than the gym and comes without a monthly fee, it focuses the mind and gives plenty of time to think and it beats a supermarket for fresh, tasty fruits and vegetables every time.
French Village Diaries Silent Sunday photos potager gardening

French Village Diaries Silent Sunday photos potager gardening

French Village Diaries Silent Sunday photos potager gardening

French Village Diaries Silent Sunday photos potager gardening

This weekend I have also uploaded some clips to YouTube of some photo slideshows we have been working on for over a year. One is a lane we regularly walk with the dog, changing from spring through to winter that you can see here. The other is the life of a sunflower field from seed in April to harvest in September and you can see that here.

10 comments:

  1. lovely! we have a little one along side our house near Chicago, planted Saturday last week for this year

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    1. Thanks, I hope yours grows and crops well this year.

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  2. It looks like you have a terrific piece of land for your potager. Hope you can get digging soon.
    Thanks for playing along today. Here’s my Dreaming of France meme

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    1. Thanks Paulita. I'm itching to get out and dig.

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    1. Thank you, it is one of favourite places to while away a few hours.

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  4. Good for you getting into your garden. I was thinking I need to plant some flowers.

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    1. I think the work and the results are good for the mind! Thanks for stopping by.

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  5. Looks like you have green fingers. It all looks so very healthy. Well done!

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