09 July 2017

The garden this morning

In American English, when we say "garden" we normally mean a vegetable garden — un jardin potager in French. If it's something else, we call it, for example, a "flower garden." In other varieties of English, "garden" means what we call a "yard" in the U.S. — the front yard, back yard, or side yard. Here are some photos of our garden that I took a few minutes ago.

Summer squash plants

Rows of haricots verts (green beans)

The whole garden — it's mostly tomatoes

Forecasts are calling for strong thunderstorms this afternoon. I hope the forecasts are wrong.

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  1. It looks very green and very healthy. Did you harvest any tomatoes yet?

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    1. It's way too early. We don't get tomatoes until the very end of July or in early August. People who buy commercially started tomato plants probably get an earlier harvest. Ours are 100% home grown.

      We've harvested snow peas, sugar snap peas, and zucchini so far this year, along with herbs. There might be green beans ready to harvest but I haven't looked yet.

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  2. I bet you can't wait for those tomatoes :)
    The squash flowers are so pretty, too bad you can't pick them .. I have seen recipes for cooking them.
    I am happy there are farm stands around here where I am living .. next best thing I guess.

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  3. i hope the storms hold off, my daughter & her family are driving from Biarritz to Amboise today

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  4. We have big storms every afternoon lately. I prefer them to the drought we had last summer, but we don't know what August will bring.

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    1. Was just on the phone with MA. The line went dead and now I can't get it to ring again. Doesn't even give me a busy signal. Strange.

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  5. And, what do the British call their vegetable or flower gardens?

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  6. Maybe somebody will tell us...

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    1. According to my English (born and raised) husband, exactly that: vegetable garden or flower garden. :))

      Thanks, Ken. I keep learning from you. Always meant to look up the difference between yard and garden; just never got round to it. Doubt if I would have found such a clear explanation anywhere anyway.

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    2. The Collns — English-French — dictionary, which is British, translates potager (vegetable garden) as kitchen garden, first, or vegetable garden, second.

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  7. In the garden we usually have flower beds (or flower borders) and a vegetable bed. I have mainly tomatoes in my green house in UK, the only really trusted way to get ripe fruits and to prevent blight. yours is looking so healthy.

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