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

[Did67]

4 flowers for 1,200kg and without work

That sums up a whole philosophy pretty well (even before talking about technique - but the "technique" is there, even if it is hidden!)

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It's raining, it's wet ...

in front of the door

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stream in the street

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And it's not over it seems
We live at the top of the village (the gardens are higher), the rain goes down to join the Vernazobre towards Saint Chinian.

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Back in the vegetable patch, the sun has taken over

at a neighbour's house

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pdt and 1 line of peas

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I'll have to reload the potato blanket

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Soon my first artichokes

artichoke to come

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The others grow quietly

artichokes

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[Adrien (ex-nico239)]

Artichokes I'm interested ...

But not sure that they keep winter with us even protected ...

What level of frost did they endure in your house?

On the other hand it takes a place pffff need a shed

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Artichokes I'm interested ...

But not sure that they keep winter with us even protected ...

What level of frost did they endure in your house?

On the other hand it takes a place pffff need a shed

Hello nico239

Here the temperature has not dropped below -5 ° (almost a day of snow this year). The neighbors knock down the artichokes at the end of the season while I cover them with hay

The "petit violet" variety, for an order of magnitude the handle of the spade fork is 80 cm.

high vegetable artichokes

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[edict: in the photo there are 2 feet side by side on 80 cm wide]

low vegetable artichokes

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From a neighbor but another variety.

artichokes from a neighbor

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[Adrien (ex-nico239)]

OK, thanks.

The only obstacle I would find for me is their size ... you need a hell of a surface

We BUT it wasn’t closed…. So a subsidiary question: do you think the rabbits would work the sprouts for us if we put them outside the fenced garden?

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OK, thanks.

The only obstacle I would find for me is their size ... you need a hell of a surface

We BUT it wasn’t closed…. So a subsidiary question: do you think the rabbits would work the sprouts for us if we put them outside the fenced garden?

Hello nico239.

For violets, it takes as much space per plan as for a zucchini plant (and again you can tighten a little more).

The artichoke sucker, see photo "low vegetable artichokes"

For rabbits, I don't know but a small screen to protect the young plants

artichokes harvest

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My first of the season to offer my mother-in-law

[Adrien (ex-nico239)]

Okay let's see ...

For my mother-in-law I would have let them flower in .... thistles

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Go hop, mowing day in a vegetable garden not worked for at least 4 years (the person does not have time)

mowing in progress