Vegetable garden

We always wanted to enhance our new life in France by growing our own vegetables. The previous owners had some chickens above the barn and had built a shed for them but we weren't ready for this so we're sticking to vegetable, for now anyway!

We will initially reuse the chicken space for vegetables and then knock down the chicken shed and build a sturdy greenhouse.

Mark started planting with one bed of garlic and a few onions, and they seem to be growing very nicely.



Dan is continuing the job by digging out more beds for potatoes, onions and eventually tomatoes but we're going to see what grows in this soil (we can't test it). Loads of Acacia roots are making the digging slow work.

A big fig tree right in the middle of the veg patch


Dan has made great progress planting potatoes and onions in the last few days.
Red Onions

Potatoes
The garlic Mark planted a few weeks ago growing nicely (some onions in there as well)


As a note, the roots from the Acacia are horrendous and run for many meters and some are huge, all connecting different shoots all over the garden, we hate them!

This one is at least 3cm in diameter and over 4m long and currently disappears under the pile of planks from the chicken shed.

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  1. Unknown26 April 2020 at 11:37

    Apparently camelias like acid soil, so maybe it is acid. But then, someone could have put peat etc around the camelias to compensate, or they just do fine in alkaline soil after all! Test kit would be the way to go.

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