Souped-up Garden

cooking with garden-fresh ingredients grown in an intensive southwest France urban potager; writing book reviews; traveling around & about, mostly in France; taking photographs and making art of it all

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Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Walk on the Wild Side . . . and various harvests

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There's an area sized about forty-feet-wide and fifteen-feet-deep in the back of the garden that has been allowed to go wild for severa...

Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Petticoat Puffs, Lavender Bundles, Tomato Structures & the First Strawberries of the Season

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Étoile de Hollande , a robust, full-fragrance climbing rose, is still putting out tier upon tier of ruffled petals or to which I fondly r...

Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Our Potager at the End of a Very Busy May

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As a grower of fresh produce, I never know if weather conditions will allow getting into the ground soon enough what I planned to do way ba...

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Fresh Garlic . . . and more May flowers

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Our main garlic crop was planted just a few weeks ago, but there were some cloves sowed last autumn so the mellow sweetness of fresh garlic...

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

The Fragrant Month of May: Roses, Lily of the Valley & Lavender

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Since the Queen Elizabeth hedge rose which snugly cohabits with a calla lily thicket in the patio's small cut-out faces south, it bloom...

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