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  • Some Pictures of the Pyrenees Plot (Part one)

    As its blowing a hoolie and lashing down with rain here are a few pics from our plot, from the earliest bleak days of bare ground in February to the end of the first summer.

    What little soil there was has been scraped off during the build or washed away down the hill afterwards. What is left is just clay and boulders. Nice.

    As we are on a slope there is backfill at the front so we marked out the veg garden to go here. The beds are 6X1.5m (too wide for me to be able to easily reach the middle) with .5m paths between (too narrow for me not to fall off with the wheelbarrow from time to time).
    Each one was turned once, the boulders and solid clay removed. This one looks deceptively nice! Then each one got a good layer of muck, except the parsnip patch which got horrid cheapo compost.

    But the plot fed us quite well through the summer and as we headed for our first autumn we had plenty of cabbages and leeks. I'm amazed at how much grew in the first year considering there really was no soil!
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    Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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    Part two!

    The following spring (May ish) the veg garden looked as if it had always been here. We even had grass - OK weeds - on the paths!

    And this hedge had gown up between us and the field next door. It is entirely self sown - ash, blackthorn, hawthorn, field maple and lots of wild rose, amongst other things.

    And finally, this photo was taken last month which was third autumn on the plot. Yet more cabbages!


    When I first started work on the vegetable garden I was in tears every day because it seemed impossible that anything would grow and we had burnt our boats with no going back to our old lives. But it is amazing what will grow - we have not thrown money at this, probably less than three hundred euros for muck and compost over three seasons.

    This is why we chose this plot
    Seduced by the view - the Pyrenees in winter.
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    Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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    • #3
      How fabulous! Inspiration for us all!
      All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
      Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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      • #4
        Well done it was worth those tears. It's amazing how quickly nature establishes things, I'm thinking of your hedge which no doubt it providing some shelter.

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        • #5
          Beautiful view! All your hard work and determination has rewarded you with a fine looking garden. Now, time to find some hardy grape cultivars for part 3
          The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

          Gertrude Jekyll

          ************NUTTERS' CLUB MEMBER************

          The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?
          Alice Kingsley: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll
          tell you a secret. All the best people are.

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          • #6
            What an awesome view!

            As gertrude Jekyll said: "There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight."

            Certainly true of your plot PP
            Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
            Endless wonder.

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            • #7
              Wow! You were posting the second lot as I was responding to the first. That's lovely, and, as you say, that view!
              All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
              Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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              • #8
                Isnt France beautiful!
                Our view is lovely too.....but not mountains .
                well done with the garden ....you are doing well....
                http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...gs/jardiniere/

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                • #9
                  Well done!!!!!
                  Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                  • #10
                    Its beautiful PP - and your veggies look yummy

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                    • #11
                      I've thoroughly enjoyed reading that and loved your photos. Really envious- stunning view and a full plot. Well done, it was worth some tears.

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                      • #12
                        Well done PP,what healthy looking brassicas,and not a net in sight,i think a lot of us supprise ourselfes at what can be achieved,with a little hard work and determination,nice view,
                        sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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                        • #13
                          Wow!!!...fantastic- well done you!

                          *Nicos gives PP a large pat on the back !
                          "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                          Location....Normandy France

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                          • #14
                            How wonderful! You've done a fantastic job and what a plot.

                            How did you end up there? Where where you before and how did it come about?

                            I love to hear the story

                            Loving my allotment!

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                            • #15
                              Beautiful view and a lovely plot, well done.
                              Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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