July 28, 2014
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Harvest of potatoes. / Leeks for pies
récolte de pommes de terre.
harvest of potatoes
24 Juillet
English version below the pictures
Mardi dernier,mon cousinRené, (celui qui parle aux phoques) est venu avec sa femme Chantal pour m'aider à récolter les 5 dernières rangées de pommes de terre. Mon cousin est rapide et le travail a été fait rapidement..(voir sur la deuxième photo la façon dont il lance sur le terrain, les fanes et les tubercules de pommes de terre. Il a l’ attitude d’un discobole !Quel soulagement quand nous nous sommes rencontrés au dernier pied . Travail fini! Vous pouvez voir une partie de la récolte stockée provisoirement dans un hangar
My cousin harvesting the potatoes ( last row) mon cousin en est au dernier rang des pommes de terre
Discus thrower? Le discobole ?
Meeting at the last potatoe On se rejoint au dernier pied.
a part of the crop une partie de la récolte
Last Tuesday my cousin René , ( the one who speaks to the seals ) came with his wife Chantal to help me to harvest the 5 last rows of potatoes. My cousin is speedy and the work has been done quickly.. See on the second picture how he launches away on the ground faded foliage and tuber of the potatoes. He has the posture of a discus thrower ? What a relief when we met each other at the last plant of potato You have a part view of the crop waiting in a shed .
Pendant ce temps son épouse Chantal prenait plaisir à cueillir des mûres sur le buisson au fond du potager
Meanwhile his wife Chantal enjoyed to pick blackberries on the bush at the bottom of the veggie garden
Et deux jours plus tard voici ce que vous pouvez voir au même endroit: un régiment de 370 jeunes poireaux qui vont croître rapidement avec le plus grand plaisir pour faire partie de la bonne soupe de l'hiver ou du printemps prochain
La paysage évolue rapidement dans le potager
And two days later here is what you can see at the same place : a regiment of 370 young leeks which will grow quickly with greatest pleasure to be part of the good soup of the next winter or spring.
The landscape always is changing in the veggie garden,
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Poireaux pour flamiches et fondues.
Leeks for pies and fondues
27 juillet
Et quatre jours plus tard j' ai ajouté 200 poireaux d 'une autre variété " les Gros jaunes du Poitou" . Cette variété est utilisée par Janine pour faire des flamiches ( tartes aux poireaux ) ou des fondues pour accompagner la viande. On voit sur la photo la différence de couleurs entre les 370 poireaux précédemment plantés et les 200 récemment plantés.
.....and four days later I add 200 other leeks of another variety : " the big yellow of Poitou" . Poitou is an area France . This variety is used by Janine to make excellent leek pies and also fondues to accompany meat in a meal . We see on the picture the different color between the 370 leeks previously planted and the 200 newly planted.
Pas de temps ni d 'espace à perdre, la terre doit produire . Après les poireaux j' ai semé sous voile hier soir 6 rangs de carottes à récolter en Novembre . Elles sont appelées carottes de Colmar. Le voile protège les carottes des insectes qui viennent pondre au sommet et ensuite leurs larves entrent dans la racine.
On n'arrête jamais!
No time nor space lost , the ground has to produce . After the leeks, I sowed, yesterday night ,under veil, 6 rows of carotts to eat in November . They are called carrots of Colmar . The veil protects the carotts against insects that come lay on the top and their larveas eat the carott!!
We never stop
Comments (33)
Those potato's look so, so good!! Plenty to last through the winter, with a few left over for next years crop of potato's....
And those leeks are good for just about every type of food....They're good in salads, meat-loafs, soups, omelets, and even by themselves, lol!!
You've received a bounty of food from your garden this year!!
Digging potatoes was always one of my favorite parts of gardening ~ lots of memories for the children ~
Such a great looking crop of potatoes. You should have them and leeks for the rest of the year. Your gardening skills amaze me.
Hugs, Char
So many potatoes. How do you keep them from sprouting? I bring a couple or three from the store and keep them at home, and if I don't use them up right away, I get tiny green sprouts from the eyes of the potatoes. How good to have such healthy leaks and the berries! Yum.
When you get tiny green sprouts from the eyes of the potatoes, it is time to plant them!
Oh wow, that is A LOT of potatoes! My mother put a few potato pieces with green sprouts into our garden to see if they'll grow. We don't know how to determine when we can harvest them, but your photos give me a little bit of an idea.
Enjoy your potatoes!
Oh how wonderful, Michel!
I love potatoes!
What a great harvest and you will be enjoying tater meals of all kinds in the weeks ahead!
And blackberries...Oh, yum!:-)
HUGS!!!
A fresh potato
like silk on the tongue
filled with nutrient gleaned from the soil
You are blessed!
Oh what a joy to be harvesting potatos, and picking blackberries.
Soon I plan to be growing a lemon tree on my back porch.
Wow, dig up the potato's put down the leeks. How wonderful.
I am excited just to have two potted tomato plants flourishing on my front porch.
Loved the allusion to a discus thrower.
and I always love seeing the gentleman Michel in his hat.
The good gardener has a plan - harvest the peas and put in the kale, take the potatoes and plant the leeks, once the spinach is done put in some radishes... You are right that the garden is always changing. Our zucchini is over producing and the tomatoes are starting to ripen. I will be making grilled zucchini this weekend and perhaps making kabobs with the tomatoes...
Thanks,Val , you give me some ideas to diversify the crop rotation in my veggie garden
Do you raise animals for meat too?
What do you do to keep your garden soil fertile?
Lovely to have fresh grown produce! A lot of work, though!
I always marvel at the jewels from your garden. Love and Light, Nancy {v}
Hi Michel
I raised potatoes once and they did well.
Then they kept coming up because I missed some in the ground, but they got smaller and smaller.
That is a beautiful garden.
blessings
frank
Oh what a wonderful bounty of spuds you got from your wonderful garden.
Ty so very much of your kind, and caring comments about our sweet Alis health problems.
Looks like hard work! So satisfying to enjoy the fruits and veggies of our labor.
May God bless your garden and family. About your comment, I wonder if you have dust mites over there? Hehee.
While we were stationed in Maine many years ago we worked with friends in the potato harvest on the big farm. Our son was to little, he played with a field mouse instead. We chose not to go the last day as a freeze had come in during the night and we were already tired from the bushels we filled.
I'm not going to take credit for suggesting the crop rotation. You had a plan all along! Do you plant turnips or rutabagas? We went to the Farmer's Market and the produce was beautiful - but we will never be able to grow all the different crops and varieties that they have available... I have requested the grocery stock purple carrots - I'm waiting to see if they get some in.
"We never stop."
Those were my thoughts almost exactly... 'very ambitious' and 'never a dull moment'.
Harvesting what we have planted gives immeasurable pleasure. We are all farmers at heart.
I love to learn about the planting and all that you do with your crops. And then I read what others do with theirs as well. Such informative posts, and knowledgeable friends! I agree with John, .. We do indeed derive much pleasure from eating that which we plant!
Love,
Carolyn
What a wonderful harvest, Michel, that all of your hard work has produced! You're all set for the winter!
Cheers!!
Kudos to you and Janine for all that you do with your garden.
ryc: No that is not my wedding picture on the index page.
I looked up the link to the flower, this is what it says:
Hoita strobilina is a threatened, perennial herb endemic to California. It occurs naturally in chaparral or oak woodland on serpentine, or Franciscan-formation substrata. It descends into gravelly creek beds draining from the mountains into the Santa Clara Valley. This species went largely unnoticed (and without protection measures) until a comprehensive monograph was conducted. It is now listed as rare, threatened, or endangered in California and elsewhere by the California Native Plant Society. The CNPS also notes that this species is threatened by urbanization, and possibly by feral pigs and foot traffic.
Oh and the link is: http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/potd/2014/07/hoita-strobilina.php
They show no comparison pictures.
Thanks Bonnie. With you I am studying botanical taxonomy just after reading a post of murosopsis(http://murisopsis.xanga.com )about the animal taxonomy.
Vous êtes des Magiciens de la Terre!
Bravissimi!!!
Peut-t-on avoir les recettes de tartes aux poireaux et fondue de Janine ?
Cela nous met l'eau à la bouche rien que d'y penser
Vivement l'automne!
Amitiés d'Helvétie, AM
Michel, I see your garden has done well. Mine not so much this year. The lower garden fro some reason nearly failed. So the cabbage heads are small, onions small and basil and Swiss chard have gone to seed. Haven't even dug the potatoes yet. But the upper garden has gone wild...zuchinni, yellow squash, peppers, tomatoes and Armenian cucumbers running wild in the10 x 10 ft garden. But so far the string beans are just leaves. So many veggies right now, I'll be giving them away. It is very hot here 98-107F degrees. We have lots of smoke because of the many forest fires in Washington State. Today is very bad for smoke. So will stay in the house and putter on other projects. Love the photos of grandchildren at ice rink. That looks like such fun. Does Grandma Janine also get on the ice to skate too?
In the next few months will have to make a decision on whether to have total knee replacement on the left knee and then probably a year later will have the left done. Doc didn't give much info, so will seek another opinion. Otherwise, we are doing fine and keep busy with the yard most of the year. At age 70 and 76, we don't move as fast as we use to. Again thanks for the wonderful photos of the activities of your lovely family. Hugs to you and Janine. <3 Marilyn Thysell
I had no idea your garden held such quantities! Thank goodness you have some helpers. And now so many good meals to look forward to.
My uncles and I would find wild blackberries and bring buckets back to my grandmother's house. She would then make the most delicious blackberry dumplings for supper. Thank you for reminding me of some happy memories.
what a beautiful garden
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