august

Scything

There is a problem that is familiar to most of us – you come over to Brittany and buy a house with a large garden and possibly a field attached, and you are then faced with the question of what to do about the grass.
Initially, you assume that one of the solutions on hand will [...]

Gardening and Good Health

August is traditionally a month in which to sit back and enjoy the garden, especially if the weather is hot. Hopefully there will be plenty of vegetables to pick and flowers to admire, and, in Brittany, one can be sure that there will be a marvellous assortment of insects to watch busily going about their [...]

Buckwheat in Flower

A field of buckwheat in full bloom. The crop was sown at the end of May and should be ready for harvest in September.

August – Keeping things tidy

An effective and very strurdy climbing frame for beans. The frame is made entirely from bamboo, and uses no string (the bamboo is woven in and out of the uprights). The beans on the picture are not very vigorous. so the frams did not need to be particularely high
I have grown a lot of cabbages [...]

Apple Props

Don’t forget that overladen apple branches commonly snap under the weight of the fruit. If there seems to be any danger of this happening, either remove some of the fruit, or prop up the branch with a suitable prop.
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