A very domestic post

Here we are again, at the cottage in France. We got back on the weekend, but since then it has been a whirlwind of activity. I couldn't believe how much the veggies had grown in the ten days we were away! All thanks to my very dear friend Christine, who watered them for us. I got to post pics of the veggie patch, lol, I am so pleased with the progress of my little plants -

The potatoes on the right, an English variety, have gone crazy, the plants are huge!

Next to the potatoes, in front as you look at them in this pic, are the tomatoes -

Tiny toms are beginning to appear. This is my favourite variety, a very old one called Andine Cornue -

In front of the tomatoes, from right to left, are bush beans, red onions and the big plants on the left are round courgettes. The smaller ones at the bottom of the pic are another variety of courgettes-

The flowers on the round courgette plants -

See those little round things? Those will grow into big round things, lol-

Chili peppers -

My wonderful DH, who spent many hours digging the veggie patch, looking at the rainbow beetroot plants right in front of him -

From the left - broad beans, then peas, then climbing beans and right behind DH a small row of mange tout -

Peas are flowering-

Broad beans are flowering -

Even the potatoes are flowering, lol. The flowers are so pretty, darned shame though that they all got eaten by the crickets and grasshoppers -

We wanted to plant more things, so had to dig another small patch on the other side as well -

The two vines we have are already full of grapes, tiny still, but getting bigger every day -

A different variety of potatoes, planted just before we went back to England, coming along nicely -

And another view, towards the cottage of the bigger veggie patch -

Well, the veggies might not be ready for harvesting yet, but the soft fruit is! I picked whitecurrants, blackcurrants and raspberries. Didn't have any strawberries or cherries,with so I bought a few cherries in order to make a SUMMER PUDDING, yay! A very simple English dessert -

The last pic fits in with this domestic post as well. The theme over at the Our Beautiful World blog this week is MAIL. This is our little French mail box -

Tomorrow it will be back to crafty stuff. I have some wonderful ATCs to show you!

Toodlepip xxx