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ENGLISH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2012 I jump to 2016. Why? Well not much happened in between those years. I tried a few new vegetables (salsify, different type of tomatoes, broccoli\u2026), I started earlier in February and I did some things later (July\/August), but my garden kind of looked the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012 my potatoes got blight so after that I put some Bordeaux mixture each year. Bordeaux mixture is supposedly okay for organic gardens, but I then discovered that your soil can get over-loaded with copper sulfate, so after two years I stopped using it. I swap sides for planting potatoes from one year to another as they are not meant to always grow in the same place, but still both sides got copper sulfate at one point. I started to plant them from March to June simply because I didn\u2019t have the time to do them all at once (I plant a lot of potatoes as they have to feed us all year round and I use some as seed potatoes for the following year). I start planting them around the 19th<\/sup> March as it is a French tradition which I quite like. One takes a small risk with late frosts, but it will give one potatoes ready to eat in June\/July. It became obvious to me that it was a good idea anyway not to put all your potatoes in the ground at the same time because in 2016 nature suddenly decided to go mental\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for tomatoes, they were also sprayed with Bordeaux mixture and I used to tie them up nicely to their poles and remove all the extra axial shoots in order to keep a nice clean stem. I also pulled off a lot of leaves\u2026 Basically I did as most people around here do, but I studied my actions to see if they were good or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it is important to learn from your mistakes and later on, I did, and Nature was there all the way to point me in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let us go to 2016. I started my garden in February with the usual ploughing, followed by pea sowing (well before the last frost as they don\u2019t freeze easily), potato planting and so on. I had done my sowing for my future seedlings and everything was going according to plan. Then came the end of May and everything went berserk. Nature decided to drop a great lot of rain and everything got flooded. I really mean flooded! Villages were cut-off and houses were seriously damaged with over a metre of water in some of them as the rivers, canals and dams overflowed everywhere they could. My garden got a soaking like it probably never had before. For an entire month, it was impossible to set a foot in it! I would bury myself right up to the knees if I tried! So I looked in despair to see what was happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flooded potatoes \u2013 Pommes de terre inond\u00e9es<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Many plants died, but potatoes planted in March\/April survived as they already had some good size green tops. The pea crop survived too as it was closer to the house which is slightly higher than the rest of the garden. As the water drained I was able to plant close to the edges of the plots, near the grass verges and paths. I had no choice than putting seedlings all over the place or wait and loose the growing season\u2026 There was no way to remove any weeds and they grew very nicely. No way either to tidy up tomatoes or anything else\u2026 Everything went wild. And guess what, it worked. I didn\u2019t get as many potatoes that year for sure, but I got vegetables and I even did some preserve especially with the tomatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a friend of mine said at the time, you see, you do not need to have a \u201cclean\u201d garden, it is a waste of time\u2026 I had to agree so from then on I tested new ways of gardening with weeds. It was going to be less work, more wilderness and I would continue to observe the results, as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FRAN\u00c7AIS<\/strong>

De 2012 je saute \u00e0 2016 . Pourquoi ? Et bien peu de choses ont \u00e9volu\u00e9 entre ces deux ann\u00e9es. J\u2019ai essay\u00e9 de nouveaux l\u00e9gumes (salsifis, diff\u00e9rentes esp\u00e8ces de tomates, brocoli\u2026), J\u2019ai commenc\u00e9 plus t\u00f4t en f\u00e9vrier et j\u2019ai fait des choses plus tard (juillet\/ao\u00fbt), mais le jardin avait toujours plus ou moins le m\u00eame look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2012 mes pommes de terre ont eu le mildiou, donc apr\u00e8s \u00e7a je les ai asperg\u00e9es de bouillie bordelaise. La bouillie bordelaise est cens\u00e9e convenir aux jardins biologiques, mais j’ai d\u00e9couvert que le sol pouvait \u00eatre surcharg\u00e9 de sulfate de cuivre, et j’ai donc cess\u00e9 de l’utiliser au bout de deux ans. Je change d\u2019emplacement d\u2019une ann\u00e9e sur l\u2019autre pour planter mes pommes de terre car elles ne doivent pas \u00eatre plant\u00e9es toujours \u00e0 la m\u00eame place, mais je finissais de toute fa\u00e7on par mettre du sulfate de cuivre partout \u00e0 ce point. J\u2019ai commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 planter mes pommes de terre de mars \u00e0 juin simplement car je n\u2019avais pas le temps de toutes les planter d\u2019un seul coup (je plante beaucoup de pommes de terre car elles doivent nous nourrir pour une ann\u00e9e compl\u00e8te et en plus j\u2019en utilise comme plants pour l\u2019ann\u00e9e suivante). Je commence \u00e0 planter mes pommes de terre autour du 19 mars car c\u2019est une tradition fran\u00e7aise qui me pla\u00eet bien. On prend un petit risque avec les gel\u00e9es tardives, mais cela permet d\u2019avoir des pommes de terre nouvelles \u00e0 manger en juin\/juillet. Il est devenu tr\u00e8s \u00e9vident pour moi qu\u2019il \u00e9tait important de ne pas planter toutes ses pommes de terre en terre en m\u00eame temps en 2016 car la nature a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de p\u00e9ter un plomb\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour les tomates je faisais un peu la m\u00eame chose qu\u2019avec les pommes de terre concernant le mildiou et elles \u00e9taient asperg\u00e9es de bouillie bordelaise r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement. Je les attachaient religieusement \u00e0 leur piquet et j\u2019enlevais tous les gourmands pour avoir une belle tige toute propre. J\u2019enlevais aussi beaucoup de feuilles\u2026 Je faisais simplement ce que la majorit\u00e9 faisait autour de moi. Par contre j\u2019ai \u00e9tudi\u00e9 tout que je faisais pour voir si c\u2019\u00e9tait bien ou pas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je pense qu’il est important d’apprendre de ses erreurs et plus tard, c’est ce que j’ai fait, et m\u00e8re nature a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u00e0 pour m’indiquer la bonne direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais revenons \u00e0 2016. J’ai commenc\u00e9 mon jardin en f\u00e9vrier avec le labourage habituel, suivi du semis des petits pois (bien avant la derni\u00e8re gel\u00e9e car ils ne g\u00e8lent pas facilement), de la plantation des pommes de terre et ainsi de suite. J’avais fait mes semis pour mes futurs plants et tout se passait comme pr\u00e9vu. Puis arrive la fin du mois de mai et tout est parti en vrille. La nature a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de faire tomber une grande quantit\u00e9 de pluie et tout a \u00e9t\u00e9 inond\u00e9. Je veux dire vraiment inond\u00e9 ! Des villages ont \u00e9t\u00e9 coup\u00e9s du reste du monde, des maisons ont \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9rieusement endommag\u00e9es avec parfois plus d’un m\u00e8tre d’eau dans certaines d’entre elles, car les rivi\u00e8res, les canaux et les barrages ont d\u00e9bord\u00e9 partout o\u00f9 ils le pouvaient. Mon jardin a \u00e9t\u00e9 tremp\u00e9 comme il ne l’avait probablement jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 auparavant. Pendant un mois entier, il \u00e9tait impossible d’y mettre un pied ! Je me serais enterr\u00e9e jusqu’aux genoux si j’avais essay\u00e9 ! J’ai donc regard\u00e9 avec d\u00e9sespoir pour voir ce qui se passait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flooded garden \u2013 Jardin inond\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beaucoup de plantes sont mortes, mais les pommes de terre plant\u00e9es en mars\/avril ont surv\u00e9cu car elles avaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 des fanes vertes de bonne taille. La culture des petits pois a \u00e9galement surv\u00e9cu car ils \u00e9taient plus proches de la maison et l\u00e9g\u00e8rement plus en hauteur que le reste du jardin. Comme l’eau s’est \u00e9coul\u00e9e, j’ai pu planter pr\u00e8s des bords du jardin, pr\u00e8s des bordures herbeuses et des all\u00e9es. Je n’avais pas d’autre choix que de mettre des plants partout, ou d’attendre et de perdre la saison de croissance… Il n’y avait aucun moyen d’enlever les mauvaises herbes et elles ont tr\u00e8s bien pouss\u00e9. Pas moyen non plus d\u2019attacher et d\u2019entretenir les pieds de tomates ou quoi que ce soit d’autre… Tout est devenu sauvage. Et devinez quoi, \u00e7a a fonctionn\u00e9. Je n’ai pas eu autant de pommes de terre cette ann\u00e9e-l\u00e0, c’est s\u00fbr, mais j’ai eu des l\u00e9gumes et j’ai m\u00eame fait quelques conserves, surtout avec les tomates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comme l’a dit une de mes amies \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque, tu vois, tu n’as pas besoin d’avoir un jardin \u00ab propre \u00bb, c’est une perte de temps… Je ne pouvais \u00eatre que d’accord et \u00e0 partir de l\u00e0, j’ai test\u00e9 de nouvelles fa\u00e7ons de jardiner avec les mauvaises herbes. Ce fut moins de travail, plus de nature sauvage et j’allais continuer d\u2019observer les r\u00e9sultats comme d’habitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ENGLISH From 2012 I jump to 2016. Why? Well not much happened in between those years. I tried a few new vegetables (salsify, different type of tomatoes, broccoli\u2026), I started earlier in February and I did some things later (July\/August), but my garden kind of looked the same. In 2012 my potatoes got blight so … <\/p>\n

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