One of the places I like to walk to in the afternoon, when I go out with Callie the collie, is down this fairly steep hill to the lower northeast corner of the Renaudière vineyard. At the very bottom is a field that's often planted in wheat or colza. Down there is the bottom land of the river valley. Our house and the vineyard is on the heights.
Of course, one of the requirements for walking down there is a willingness to walk back up to the house afterwards! Callie doesn't mind, and I don't either. At my age, it's very good exercise.
Along the edge of the vineyard, there is that little orchard where the neighbor posted his hand-made Propriété Privée sign (see yesterday's post). The tree above is a peach tree. It needs to be a very hot summer for the peaches here to ripen before pests get into them, but sometimes there are some to pick in August or September.
The new greenhouse we had put up last November is proving to be both a huge improvement to our house and a boon to our gardening efforts. It's still far too early to set plants out in the vegetable garden plot, but the seedlings are sprouting in the greenhouse. The view above is what people walking or driving by on the road can see of the greenhouse if they look. By the way, it's cold this morning — +6ºC, which is just barely above 40ºF.
Colza? Ok, more or less rapeseed or canola.
ReplyDeleteIt is rape. Canola is a marketing term that the Canadians invented. Colza is the word in French. It comes from Flemish/Dutch, and it's in the U.S. and British dictionaries too.
DeleteIt's great that the greenhouse is living up to your expectations. It looks nice, too.
ReplyDeletelooks lovely....btw, how is Bertie doing??
ReplyDeleteBertie is doing fine. He's hunting a lot. I took him back to the vet's the other day and he got his annual vaccination. The vet said his wound was nearly completely healed, and he had lost nearly half a pound over the two weeks of his recovery. He needed to lose a little weight, as those who've seen him knew. I'm feeding him less now that his hunting season is open again.
DeleteI love this view of your greenhouse. My dad had a small one with a large box of dirt where he planted KY bib lettuce every year and we ate it pretty early on. Putting a greenhouse right there was such a good idea- it's the perfect spot and probably helps keep the mud out of your basement.
ReplyDeleteI love the shape of the gate ! And the diamond shaped ?s Every photo you show us, I fall more in love with everything I see ~
ReplyDeleteCareful, you might end up with all these new neighbors with familiar names :)
Just catching up, and I read your post on the local quiet. Another thing you must have is a fairly clear night sky, without terminal light pollution. I so miss being able to see the Milky Way.
ReplyDeleteThe greenhouse looks wonderful. So glad it's working as well as you thought it would.
It's true, there's not much light pollution here, still these days. When we first came here 14 years ago the skies were breath-taking, and they still sometimes are. 10 or more years ago, our neighbor the mayor asked us what we thought about having street lights installed on our little road. We told her we were against it, because we didn't want the light pollution. She dropped the idea. Anyway, in summertime, when people might be out walking in the evening, it doesn't get dark until as late as 10:30 or even 11:00.
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