How long can I leave veg in pots before planting out?

[kathyd]

Hi Two Sheds

We're still astounding our french neighbours (well, ONLY neighbours actually), that english people can actually cook something edible... it's really funny when I invite them for a vegetarian meal . They seem to eat anything provided it's meat.

[kathyd]

Hi Patchninja

We'll be bang in the middle - near Rostrenen, or Carhaix Plouger. So Cotes d'Armour, just. You're right, it's not tropical a lot of the time, and it does rain a lot - but that's why it's all so lush and green . We love it.

[kathyd]

Hi VirginvegGrower

I'm hoping to get a couple of hens which lay those lovely blue or green eggs - can't remember which ones they are - and possibly a couple of hybrids which should lay a bit more often? Never kept them before, learning from a book! We have a barn in the garden which had a dangerous roof, so we've just had the roof removed and we'll use the slate for paths initially. I guess I'll need to find somewhere to get hold of chippings or something for the hens in the winter, you're right, but in the summer they can just run around under the trees in the front garden. If I can rid of the buttercups first... I believe they're dangerous for chickens?

[kathyd]

Hi King Carrot

That's a fantastic idea! I've been wondering what I could do that's a bit 'different', now I know! So if I ever open a B&B you can come and try it out...

[Two_Sheds]

They seem to eat anything provided it's meat.

Oh yes.
The only thing I can eat in Paris is "frites et pain s'il vous plait". The waiters think it's hilarious (never apparently having seen a chip butty before)

[kathyd]

Hi Two Sheds

Lovely story . How do they deal with a request for tea? I got tired of being given black tea, and if I asked for milk it was hot and frothy... Brilliant!

[Patchninja]

We'll have to meet up for a coffee!
Be careful about foraging for wood - I had a sister in law who got caught by the copse owner - who called the gendarmes. She was very red-faced. Few woods here are NOT private.

[kathyd]

Hi Patchninja

Coffee would be lovely. Or tea - I'm still very 'anglaise' at the moment

Not really planning on going foraging, not without permission anyway. I'm going to chat up the farmer who owns the fields around our house to ask if it'd be OK to collect bits of stuff from his hedgerows - once my french improves a bit anyway! Maybe I could invite him and his family for a nice vegetarian meal in exchange, hehe