Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Growing your own vegetables can be rewarding as well as saving money giving you the best produce for your kitchen. Learn how to grow and preserve your harvest.
Interesting fact: We’ve lived in France for over 15 years and have never been bothered by mosquitos – until this year. This year we have also had a serious drought and the hottest summer. Because the summer dry periods have … Continue reading…
The only good thing about the 5 heat waves we’ve had this summer is that there were very few pests in my garden…. Likely because nothing was growing. The only thing left at this point are the squashes. Some are … Continue reading…
About 3 weeks into spring garden cleaning I start to really miss winter. This year has been worse than usual as we have had so much rain. Everything grows fast and is too wet too handle. We also have new … Continue reading…
When I lived in the U.S. I did a lot of canning. I would by a bushel or 2 of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, peaches, etc. I made pickles, sauces, juice, and canned whole tomatoes and halved peaches and brandied cherries. … Continue reading…
Our climate is changing. Well, everyone’s climate is changing but our own is the only one I have personal knowledge of. Two years ago we had a stink bug invasion for the first time. They had been around in the … Continue reading…
My potager, aka: vegetable garden, veggie patch, disaster area, is not having one of its better years My big blue pumpkins, normally way too prolific, have produced 3 tiny specimens that are, at the moment, rotting on the vines. The … Continue reading…
The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw once said: ‘England and America are two countries divided by a common language’. I have learned that lesson well since living on this side of the pond but what I’ve learned is to be … Continue reading…