La Récolte at La Basse Cour

La Récolte = The Harvest for my English readers

One of the things that we wanted to do when we moved to France was to spend more time gardening and growing our own food. With some good results:

 

Our potager has been one of the most enjoyable things that we've done at the house this year and we've grown the following fruit and vegetables this year (with some French translations where I know them):

Dwarf French Beans                        Haricot Nain
Broad Beans                                   Haricot Rame
Runner Beans                                  Haricot Grimpante
Lettuce (Mixed Salad, Ashbrook)    Laitue
Carrot Early Nantes                        Carotte
Rocket                                            Roquette
Basil                                                Basilique
Coriander
Pepper (Jalapeno, Salad Bowl,        Poivron
  Long Red Marconi)
Beetroot                                          Betterave
Cornichon
Melon
Pumpkin                                          Potiron

Spring Onion
Spinach                                           Epinard
Courgette
Leek                                               Poiron
Tomato
Potato (Cara, Chérie)                      Pomme de Terre
Onion
Shalot                                             Eschalotte
Garlic                                             Ail

Strawberry                                     Fraise
Raspberry                                      Framboise
Black, White and Redcurrants        Cassis, groseiller
Gooseberries                                 Groseille a macqueraux
Blackberries                                  Murier

And, on the way shortly:

Peaches, Nectarines and Walnuts

 Water supplies have been important through the dry Spring:

 

And, this week, we have begun lifting our major crops of potatoes, this is about half of our early potatoes Chérie, around 45kg:

And red Shallots and rose Garlic: