Un tour de jardin
English version below the pictures
Je regardais les laitues preparées par Janine sur la table de la cuisine . Elle me disait pourquoi pas une entrée sur le potager ? Souviens-toi, tu as acheté des graines il y a quelque temps et tu as fait une entrée sur le semis . Montre ce qu’il en est maintenant.
I was looking at the lettuce prepared by Janine , on the kitchen table . She told me: why not a post about the veggie garden? Remember you bought the seeds a few time ago and wrote a post about the sowing . Show what it is, now!
Pour aller au potager il faut traverser la pelouse derrière la maison. J ‘ aime regarder ce fond boisé
To go to the veggie garden , we have to cross over the lawn in the backyard . I like this woody background
Voici ce que sont devenues les graines de navets , betteraves rouges et carottes semées début Avril dernier . La pousse a été difficile car Mai a été sec et en Juin , trop d’eau .
Here are red beets , turnips and carrots sowed last April. The growing has been low because May was dry and It is raining unceasingly since the beginning of June
Plus loin on voit par dessus la sauge en fleur, les pommes de terres et les oignons ( plantés par ma fille Isabelle et mon petit-fils Antoine )
Behind the sage in bloom we see potatoes and onions planted by my daughter Isabelle and my grandson Antoine .
Plus loin sous le grand cerisier nous rencontrons des campanules en fleur , souvenirs d’une tante de Janine . Et en levant la tête nous voyons les cerises qui commencent à rougir . Les oiseaux ne les ont pas encore attaquées contrairement à une petite rangée de laitues que j’ avais semées il y a un mois et qui ont totalement disparu , mangées sans doute par tourterelles et Pies qui se plaisent aussi ici.
Farther, below the big cherry tree we meet bellflowers in bloom . They make memory from janine’s aunt who gave them to us .In lifting the head we see the cherries that start to be red and have not been attacked yet by the birds at the opposite of a small row of lettuces sown a month ago, totally disappeared, eaten by tortledoves or magpies that like this place
Je n’ ai pas photographié les poireaux qui sont si menus que je me demande si je pourrai les planter à la fin de Juillet. Je suis donc rentré en suivant un passage sous les arbres avec pour finir un coup d’oeil sur l’ entrée bordée de rosiers en fleurs
I did not pictures the leeks because they are really so tiny than I wonder if I will be able to plant them at the end of July !! So I went back to home in following a path below the trees and at last having a glance on the rose bushes along the driveway
Voilà l’ état du Jardin à la mi-Juin . J ‘ espère pouvoir réaliser une autre entrée à la fin de Juillet montrant la récolte . Il faut toujours espérer, comme j’ espérais en achetant les graines
Here is how the garden is at the mid-June . I hope to be able to make another post at the end of July showing the crop . We always have to hope like I was hoping when I bought the seeds
Your garden is so beautiful…so perfect. Not only beautiful but healthy. You have a wonderful partnership with nature and you and Janine work together to provide a delicious and healthy meal. How do you keep the pests away?
We like gardening, Fraçoise.
I should have put a veil over lettuces to protect them from birds
The hard work is paying off with so many delightful sights and delicious bounty. I love the cherries, they remind me of the long cherry hedge my father planted. Different in that those cherries were shaped like tiny pumpkins… perhaps you know what kind those are? The bushes grew over 6 feet tall. My favorite here is the roses dear Michel. Is there anything more beautiful? Have a wonderful day. Love ❤️
I will research to see the pumpkin shaped cherries , Holly. Glad this post makes you think of those.
I agree with you about the roses, flowers of love. ❤
Yes, roses are s beautiful. I really must try to pin down the origin of the pumpkin shaped cherries, we ate them from the bushes, they were sweet when red but sour when orange but we ate them any way. Have a lovely day Michel ❤
I would be grateful to know more about those cherries Holly because yesterday in the afternoon I have no time to research ( hospital for dialysis )
I’m so glad Neil was able to offer his knowledge on this tropical Cherry tree. I hope you are doing well Michel.
I am well today better than yesterday night. Thanks, Holly
I’m glad you are better today. Is it Father’s Day there like it is here. I wish you a Happy Father’s Day regardless.
Yes it is father’s day in France , Holly . Thank you for your wishes.
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Those cherries perhaps were the Surinam cherry—I wrote about it a long time ago, here. Another of our neighbors in Honolulu, up the street from us, had a tree in their yard: you find it in Hawaii, and I think it is naturalized in other parts of the U.S. too (like Florida). The fruit are ribbed and start out light colored (yellow, orange) and tart, and get redder and darker, eventually almost black, and become sweeter and sweeter.
Thank you Neil , you teach me .about this special cherry. Your description and the link are precise It is interesting the cherries of Amiens bring us to Hawai! 🙂
Yes, that’s the exact description of these cherries. Thank you for solving my mystery. Have a lovely day. Holly
This has been possible because my friend Neil loves to help.
A big thank you to Neil and to you Michel!
Looks like you will have a bountiful harvest. Well maybe not leeks but everything else looks lush and thriving… Our peas are starting to climb and the beans are just sprouting. Our tomatoes are doing very well as we too have had lots of rain.
Your garden looks promising Val. I had to stop growing tomatoes because of the mildew and peas because of the birds. Putting a net on top caused difficulties.
Wonderful garden you have Michel. It makes me wish there was a bit more room here and I would put in some veggies again.
I hope the rain stops long enough for your garden to grow. You have a lovely path to get there.
Drought in Mai then flooding in June until then do not help, Bonnie. Yes , I like also this path.
Lovely. Your ahead of me. My stuff is just coming up
It seems ahead but I am sure you will have a largest crop than mine
Could be.
I am sure ! 🙂
What a beautiful garden Michel
Thanks , Angy.
Super propre ! Bravo, Michel !
Super propre ; Pas certain, Gilles ! Les mauvaises herbes on une croissance rapide !! 🙂
Very nice! I love to look at all the seed packets. They have beautiful pictures on them, but I wonder if I can produce plants as lovely?
Yes , you can, Dian and I encourage you.
Aah, le travail du potager au cours de l’année, je m’en souviens de pas planter avant mi mai à cause des saints de glace. Puis, une fois semé, les plantes et leurs fruits poussent très vite, vite, vite…Beaucoup de travail avant, pendant et après la saison de croissance mais la récolte et le goût est incomparable.
Félicitations a vous deux, pouvoir continuer ce style de vie.
je vois que tu es une jardinière sage et avisée , Stéphanie . Oui le produits du jardin semblent toujours meilleurs mais cela demande un travail sans relache .. Quand à nous on fait ce qu’on peut !! 🙂
I miss your blog on Xanga. Are you posting anywhere now?
Beautiful garden! Looks like you did a lot of hard work !!!!
Fortunately I have help from time to time ; Maggie.
Your garden is so beautiful! And you are so handsome, Michel! 🙂
You and Janine are wonderful gardeners! You must both have green thumbs! 😉 😀
HUGS and enjoy the delicious bounty of your labors!!! 🙂
Thank for your kindness , Carolyn . We like our garden but now we do in it what we can ❤
Yes. Gardening get more difficult as we get more well-seasoned. 😉 🙂 I try to have plants that take care of themselves if I just water them. Ha. 😀
Yes, Carolyn, perennial plants are a solution but what about the damn weeds ? 🙂 ❤
HA! Yes, I’m a good weed puller. 😀 Weeds seem to grow heartily! 😉
Pulling the weeds is tedious but is a necessity . ! 🙂
What a wonderful garden! Everything looks very tasty.
The products of a garden always seem the best when we compare to the market . 🙂
I love the garden photos, Michel! Your cherry trees are a little bit ahead of our trees. Our cherries are not quite ripe yet, perhaps another week or two.
I had fear to not have cherries , Lavinia,because of the frost in April but we have the good fortune to have them ( and not eaten by the birds yet) ,
Ha, ces satanées pies !!! Au lycée, je regardais mon petit figuier planté l’année dernière, et je salivais par avance en voyant les figues grossir doucement. Mais en rentrant du week-end de Pentecôte : plus aucune figue !!! Les pies ont tout mangé !!!
Je te souhaite une bonne fête des pères et t’embrasse tendrement
Véro
Merci Véronique . Je vois que nous avons eu les mêmes déceptions , toi avec tes figues , moi avec mes jeunes salades prêtes à repiquer. Au diable soient les pies ! 🙂
What a beautiful and productive garden, Michel! I’m pleased you took Janine’s advice and posted this for us to see how your garden grows!
Nothing is ever acquired in a garden, Doug,. We can only hope. Yes, Janine helps me when I’m out of ideas.
For sure! Hard work makes a good garden and building the soil with organic material is the first step. It is rewarding to finally get your soil to a point where a garden fork is all it takes to turn the soil over. We have lots of clay in the soil here, so that stage took me years before my garden spaces were easy to work or producvtive.
You are ( or were ) a methodical and experienced gardener , Doug!
I think “were” is more accurate these days. I may find a way to get back into it at some point, but this location is a challenge best left to physically fit people.
You are right . Fortunately I have the help of Janine and sometimes of children and grandchildren.
Ça va démarrer avec ces petites pluies. Les cerises sont excellentes. La nature est bien faite. Bonne fête à toi Papa. Bonne journée on vous embrasse
Merci Carole . Oui je dois avouer que les cerises sont délicieuses et c’ est aussi une bonne surprise d’en avoir malgré les gelées d’Avril.
I am surprised the birds have not come after the cherries yet! When I was growing up we had two cherry trees in the yard. It was my “job” to pick them, but we always had a struggle to get any before the birds. Love seeing pictures of your beautiful garden area. We have given up on a veggie garden for this year. We have had so much rain! But…there’s always next year!
Yes, do not despair Susan. It is true: there always is the next year
Il faisait trop chaud cet après-midi dans le potager, et je suis rentrée dans la fraîcheur de la grande cuisine de campagne. Heureuse de t’avoir rencontré dans ton potager! Dans le mien j’ai planté seulement des tomates et des courgettes (et des herbes aromatiques).
Je rêve toujours de pouvoir vous rencontrer, toi et Janine, un jour où l’autre… Esperons d’en avoir le temps avant qu’il ne soit trop tard pour nous pour voyager! En attendant de pouvoir réaliser mon rêve, je vous embrasse tous de tout mon coeur.
C ‘ est déjà bien d’avoir courgettes et tomates . Pour les tomates ici il faut les cultiver sous abri sinon elles ont le mildiou.
Peut être un jour voyagerez-vous dans le nord de la France? ❤
What a wonderful garden you have and now enjoying the bounty. Mine isn’t doing well at all. The tomato plants are trying to do their best. The green peppers have weird shapes and the Swiss Chard just doesn’t like the garden plot they are in. Don’t know if they will make it thru the summer. The basil is doing find as is sage and rosemary. The one thing that is growing so fast are the weeds. Because of health issues, neither John or I can keep up with them. Enjoy this Father’s Day weekend with your wonderful family. Love ❤ Marilyn
I understand for the weeds . Yes they are growing fast . But you can find solace with your tomato plants that I cannot grow here ( because of a mushrom: the mildew )
I admit that this year I am a little jealous. No garden this year unless I plant a pot of something.
Your hard work has been blessed!
You cannot make the all Rachel Think of the good cooking you made with the veggies . This is much !
As probably the only person here to have walked through your wonderful garden , I know what a joy it is. I see that the weather in Amiens has been the same as here for the past few weeks that had nothing but rain , so much for flaming June. Hopefully all this rain will help your garden to grow 🙂 :-).
Yes , Julie , you are the only person to have walked in the garden . I have to find again the pictures t I did at this time
That all looks wonderful. Glad you and your family are doing well. Mrs. Grovine.
Hello Mrs Grovine , I am so happy to read you.
Love ❤
What an exquisitely beautiful garden you have Michel!
And so nice to see your crops growing, and good that you have enough to feed the birds also, very kind 🙂
For the cherries we had an agreement with the birds: to them the cherries at the top of the tree, to us those at the bottom! 😉
sounds like a very fair deal to me, nice one ❤
What amazes me is this deal is functional , Kate ! 🙂
indeed it is, I often make such deals with critters in my environment, and they instinctively get it 🙂
beautiful pictures and descriptions of your garden, michel. i love when you share parts of your days with all your readers; it almost feels like i am in france with you. your garden brings much good food for you and janine, and the rest of your family.
I am glad Joyce my posts speak to you and give you the feeling to be in France . ❤
I loved the tour through your garden, Michel! You are a gifted gardener, and it’s nice that you have some help from other family members, too. You’ll be eating well, with all of that growth. Janine’s lettuce on the table– ahh – nothing like fresh produce.
You are right, Carolyn: veggies coming from the garden always are the best ! 🙂
I don’t think the cherries here are ready yet, but seeing yours fills me with anticipation. What a nice color they are.
Sometimes I wonder if I will ever have the chance to try growing lettuce in containers. You let them grow just until they are large enough to thin out—and that is the harvest, what even apartment dwellers can do, for salads of early greens (all year round, too)!
The bellflowers are very nice, I think they are coming up in yards here, too.
I already heard people living in town are growing veggies on their balcony in the way you describe , Neil . I encourage you.
no kidding, i really admire folks who have thriving veggies in their balcony plant pots, yup.
p.s. made a visit to ur blog.
says last post was in 2016?
was wondering if maybe ur gravatar is supposed to be linking to a different blog?
*this comment in ref to nielc693
Un beau jardin ! Chaque petit tour réserve une découverte !
Oui c ‘est vrai ,quand on prend le temps de regarder et tu sais le faire .
What a lovely garden Michel. 🙂
We love to be in it, Miriam.
i have a cherry plant and hv been waiting for it to fruit.
must be when its a tree size big.
cool photo of buying the seeds n looks like a great store too!
See Luke 13:1-9 the parable of the fig tree https://www.sacredspace.ie/scripture/luke-131-9 😉
Your garden always inspires me. I look forward to seeing your harvest, especially your carrots. I have not managed to grow carrots well. God bless you and your family, Michel. ❤️
I always am amazed, caroline to see the so tiny seeds of carrot give a veggie having a big size . ❤
I love your beautiful garden, Michel! The fruits of of your labor are bountiful. You and Janine create from the garden to the table. 🙂
Thanks, Marion . And also we feel good when we are in the garden . ❤
Janine had a great idea. I love your garden, It is flourishing and is beautiful. Much labor leads to great results. If I had my way, I’d always eat fresh garden food.
It’s also a pleasure to walk in the garden and see the veggies growing, Elisabeth ❤
Your garden looks lovely! It must also be a joy to eat the fruit of your labour!
yes , Suzy, you are right. Thanks.
Your garden is beautiful and I hope you will continue to have a good harvest.
Yes , Matt, hope is important in gardening and in the life .
that is a beautiful garden Michel! I’ve never planted one and I admire people that do. I hope you have a bountiful harvest!
It is never too late to plant a small corner of garden, Gayle if it is possible .
I love to see the garden growing. Since I am at my fathers home I can’t see how my husbands garden has done. But I can hope for big red tomatoes 😊
Keep hope Gail to see both the red tomatoes of your husband ‘ s garden and your father completely healed . ❤
beautiful garden…
Thanks Ritche . I hope it resist to the high temps forecast for the week that is coming.
Our garden is struggling. The peppers look horrible and have barely grown. The peppers which are supposed to be hot need hot weather and drier soil, so our weather of a lot of rain and below-average temperatures have been hurting them. The tomatoes, cucumbers, and parsley root are okay for now.
Hopefully your garden has a good harvest!
You are right, Marica, this year like last year the weather does not help.
Dear Michel,
What an amazing garden you have! I could take a book, or my painting stuff, or a pen and notebook to write, and sit there and not ever want to leave. Love your place. What a blessing to have such beauty around you.
Love,
Zakiah.
Often I sit in the path in the shadow to stay there dreaming , Zakiah
Wow Michel, I can tell you two put time and care into your garden, it’s beautiful! I have one tomato plant with one tiny green tomato lol
The tiny green tomato will become a big red one , Tudy! 🙂
Big red one with lettuce tomato and mayonnaise on bread
and add a hard boiled egg and a little of tuna from a tin can. And also a little glass of white wine !! 🙂
Um d
Delishious
Oui, un délice,, Tudy ❤
(((HUGS))) 🙂
You have amazing energy! And optimism! I’ve given up growing everything except tomatoes and squash and whatever volunteers. So far, I have an abundance of arugula and I’m pulling out winter squash everywhere. I can’t wait to see pictures of your harvest!
Thank Judy but you now the harvest always is aleatory . We have at this time a week of hot temp wave that dries the plants and make appear a lot of insects that are not all veggies friends :: 😉
This is always fascinating for a city girl like me. Even birds eating in the garden is special to me. But of course, the gardener will not be pleased. Oops!
You have a magnificent garden! You and Janine must enjoy all of the fresh food! It tastes so much better than what you can buy!
Mornin Glorie….Your gardens are beautiful, I can’t wait to read on and find out how it’s doing now at the end of July…and yes…sometimes Hope is the best emotion of all….ilym