A Kitchen Garden Sloth in the Hérault (St-Chinian)

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Work in vegetable gardens, beaker and turn the earth

Worked soil

Under the pots of purple asparagus, I quote: "protections because the nights are cold".

The pdt (charlottes, if good memory) point to a neighbor.

Pdt output

Sowing or planting (I never know) 3 or 4 weeks ago.

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It's the rougette from Montpellier ???

Mine (Grenoble red) is ... under the snow. Finally, I swept the snow on the window of the chassis!

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Sowing or planting (I never know) 3 or 4 weeks ago.

They are tubers (even if we say "pot seeds") so botanically, it is more correct to speak of planting.

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It's the rougette from Montpellier ???

Mine (Grenoble red) is ... under the snow. Finally, I swept the snow on the window of the chassis!

Won ... a salad

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For us no water worries.

A béal (canal) allows irrigation throughout the year. The following photo shows the canal going down to join the Vernazobre along our 2nd vegetable garden after having skirted it from the north (under the low wall).

link to google maps

Hatches allow the opening towards channels in order to irrigate.

open / closed hatch

Others prefer to use a cofferdam (slipped between slits cut in the concrete) and pipes.

cofferdam

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Following the transplanting of the irrigation onions to the pipes.

transplanting onions

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Two ways to plant pdt.

Left in a neighbor's vegetable patch: he prepared the ground and then made a hole in the ground to bury the seed.
Right in my vegetable garden: I opened the blanket then put the seed on the ground before closing.

planting pdt

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The green leaves are leaves of cauliflower.

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Forgotten photos.

Wind gusts of more than 110km / h uprooted a tree near the children's playground.

uprooted tree

my son is taking a break

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Follow-up of "forgotten" cauliflowers.

cauliflower

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1 or 2 days before harvest

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Result on a cauliflower stalk.

cauliflower

4 flowers for 1,200kg and without work