Plans and ideas
Well, famous last words (about needing more water) as we had a terrific storm which lasted over the whole of the weekend I was aiming to visit Chateau Bouscasse. Lots of local flooding and certainly not ideal conditions in which to go garden visiting. So, sadly, have missed the opportunity until later. Will check and see if the gardens are open again before 2010 and trust the sculptures are still in situ. Don't know where the time goes, as we are already at the beginning of October and still not got to half the gardens on my list. Do I sense a New Year's resolution coming up?
Our delicious plums are now finished and a friend to whom I sent some returned a jar of plum and lavender jelly - yum yum. Quite like this sort of exchange system. Our charentais melons are still producing but the slugs and snails are also fans of this fruit and it is a constant challenge to see who gets there first. I choose not to use slug/snail pellets unless I absolutely have to and so can blame no-one else for the slightly nibbled produce! Really surprised they have avoided the spring onions though!
Going tree and plant shopping with a client shortly and will take the opportunity to look for winter vegetables and violas. Have already bought a selection of bulbs to put in (when I get the time!). This winter I am wanting to extend my container display and so am using all sorts of odd bits - an empty duck tin, egg basket, old bird cage, enamelled milkjug and bucket, etc some of which I bought from various local vide greniers - the French equivalent of car boot sales - and some of which are now past their best. Conventional containers serve gardeners well but sometimes it is good to break out of the mould and use something different which may otherwise be thrown out. Plus it's good fun and more of a challenge to make use of an object intended for another purpose.
Will post photos when planted up but in the meantime, here is one of my little helper.
posted by Dawn Johnson at
12:31
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