Photo of Tony fighting with barbed wire surrounding our veggie patch below - his task today is to see if he can remove a post so that he can get the tractor into the veggie patch to clear it in preparation for planting - we are a little late in the season but we're going to take a chance on planting a few things anyway and see what comes to life - the neighbours (in their mid and late 70's are highly amused that we want to use a tractor in our veggie patch - they prepare theirs each year by hand - I'm assuming if we keep on top of it next year we may also be in a position to prepare the ground by hand but as you'll see from the photo below - it's quite overgrown - will send the "after" shots if Tony's successful in his post removing mission).
We have a very lively rhubarb plant in the veggie patch (also pictured below) so the plan is to prepare the veggie patch without disturbing the rhubarb which is just coming into season - cherry pie and rhubarb crumble anyone?
Last but not least I've included a photo of the neighbours vines - we're hoping we're around this year for the "vendange" (wine harvest) as they tend to invite everyone in the hamlet to help pick - it's only a small field of vines and seems to be quite a jolly affair - we're hoping to be asked so we can learn more about the vines for when we start growing (and harvesting and bottling) our own!
We're off to the UK to meet our new niece tomorrow then popping to the Isle of Man to visit some friends and family - will be offline for the duration but back online after 1st June - hopefully with some tales of what's sprouted - hopefully more veggies than weeds!
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