How pleasing to eat our own veg

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Liz pricking out seedlings on the terrace

We have been so excited this week as we have, for the first time, been able to have a complete dish made from our home-grown vegetable. The potager has been burgeoning: we have potatoes and beans that are almost ready, triffid-like courgettes that are extraordinarily productive, lettuce and herbs, who could want for more? We it was lovely that our neighbours brought us some of their eggs so we could have a really lovely meal and it was washed down with the local rosé. The ground is clay so rather sticky but seems to be very fertile which means that not only do the vegetables do well but so do all the weeds so we spend a lot of time trying to keep om top of the little blighters. Liz has seedlings on the terrace and spends a lot of time tending them. We hope that successive planting will mean we have almost all we need, at least for the summer.

Lizard Orchid (Himantoglossum hircinum; Fr: Orchis bouc)

Red Helleborine (Celaphanthera rubra; Fr: Céphalanthère rouge or Elléborine rouge)

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