Potager project

A small vegetable garden is a potager in French.

We already have a thriving existing herb garden which we inherited from the previous occupants,



but I also would like some different veg e.g. cherry tomatoes, mangetout, lambs lettuce, and had plenty of seeds so a project was born...

According to Evariste the there is only about 5 cm topsoil along the border, so insufficient for many crops so we came up with the concept of wooden boxes. I forgot to make photos of the long and protracted process which included a trip to the wood market, rebuilding the boxes as the feet were sticking up at the top, and a treasure hunt for soil... but this is the result after approx 6 weeks

seeds in rows go in

the proud producer

the seedlings after about 3 weeks.

As we get crops (or not) I will post