There's a saying in France that if you can always see the people with no friends - they'll be buying courgettes and tomatoes in the supermarket in August!
Courgettes and tomatoes have been one of our few failures in the potager. The courgettes didn't like the alternating hot and wet conditions in June and even the intervention of Lucien, our neighbour, failed to pull them round (he sprayed them with something he said he kept for emergencies - "you can't buy this normally"). The "Sweet Million" tomatoes that I'd grown carefully from seed sown on 15th March grew really well and produced their first tiny sweet fruits at the start of August. Then in the space of 48 hours the damp weather accounted for them as they caught blight and fell over.
On the plus side the runner beans (haricots grimpantes) are producing huge quantities of beans and filling up the freezer. And the peach harvest has been exceptional - they've gone into the freezer and Barbara has made some wonderful peach chutney and today I picked the last 18 perfect fruits from the tree, the largest a cricket ball sized one that smelt divine .... :o)
In Sapa, Vietnam
About Me
- Tim Claridge
- Sharing time between Southampton and Noyal-Muzillac in southern Brittany. Sports coach, gardener, hockey player, cyclist and traveller. I studied an MA in Management and Organisational Dynamics at Essex University in 2016-17. Formerly an Operations Manager with NEC Technologies (UK) Ltd.
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