Gardening in Brittany

Tuesday 14/04/20

We would have been coming to the end of our sit, having spent more than six months on the property but, as expected, France has extended the lock-down until 11 May so we'll be sitting tight for the moment.

When it became more apparent that that their plans to return home may be delayed, the owners posted us the rest of the potatoes they had been 'chitting' in Southampton as well as some more seeds.  We have been preparing the early crops so that by the time B&T are able to travel back to Brittany the potager and veg beds will already be well on their way.

Toni has been doing fantastic work raising seedlings for the potager and garden

Salad bed in the foreground, everything still tiny but we hope...

The carrot bed is serving as a nursery for crops to be planted out,

Peas and broad beans Toni raised from seeds and planted out.

Onions and shallots

The early potatoes have emerged and we have now planted the rest of the
varieties in the rest of the bed 

The garden continues to amaze us every day with new plants and flowers emerging, it really is a wonderful time of year.

The pond is an area of constant activity, the most vocal inhabitants are the frogs but they thwarted any attempt to video their activities.  it's a bit windy today so I'll try again when they are performing better.

Dragonfly antics

He's keeping an eye on me.

We went food shopping again today, the first time Toni has been away from the property in a month, and it felt quite surreal to see other people and to be out and about.  We're going into week 5 for our isolation and it looks like at least another four before we'll start to get anything like normaily returning.

Hope you are all well and coping with everything.