.....by an even larger margin - don’t think we’re going to be able to top this for gifts in one day!!
Above and below are photos of the shallots, onions, garlic, beets and carrots that I’ve just been given when I went to pick up my ‘bag of garlic from the gate’!!
Our friends had other friends over for an aperitif so I joined them and got to wander around their garden during which time Michel harvested multiple carrots and a couple of beets to add to the bag of garlic, shallots and onions that Simone had prepared earlier and left by the gate - Michel also pointed out the ‘haricots verts’ that are just coming in and promised a big bag of them in the days to come.
As some of you already know and for those of you who don’t, we’re (sadly) going back to Cayman in October - sad because we would have liked to continue pretending to farm but secretly pleased to follow the birds to warmer weather for the winter (and beyond).
The good thing (bad thing for us, good thing for the competition I’ve invented with our neighbours) is that we won’t be here to harvest our 120 leeks as well as our 12 brussel sprout plants (which should give us perhaps a couple of hundred sprouts) and so as long as the neighbours like those veggies we may leave them with those gifts - do you think that counts in ‘the game’ - leaving gifts that keep giving even after we’ve gone??!!
So - for the timebeing we shall continue to pretend to farm and continue blogging and only hope that what we’ve learnt will hold us in good stead when we return!
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