Spring is just around the corner
Despite a record snow fall in the Pyrenees yesterday there are definite signs that Spring is on it’s way. In the garden plants are slowly waking up and demanding some care and affection. The comfrey…
Organic Plants
Optimistic Mild January
Well it’s official, this January is the mildest since 1906. Still it felt a bit brisk first thing, with an air temperature of -3, but no ground frost. But we had sun, glorious sun, the…
Lavender cuttings in Winter
It is the end of November and we find ourselves taking lavender cuttings, not just any lavender but the strongest in terms of essential oil Lavandin Grosso and Super, and Lavander Agustifolia B7. Not just…
Organic Saffron – a start
Organic Saffron, Crocus Sativus, is the most expensive spice in the world. No wonder really when you realise that each saffron crocus gives only three stigma per year. Friends of mine have grown saffron and not a…
Graines del Pais
Graines del Pais is distributor of organic aromatic, vegetable and flower seeds. The comapny was founded by five local seed producers in 2005 in Bellegarde du Razès in our own Aude Department in the deepest…
Pelargonium Graveolens
Pelargonium Graveolens. It is Tuesday so it must be smelly Geranium day. Well there not really Geraniums at all, rather Pelargoniums. Pelargonium Graveolens to be precise. And boy do they smell. We have built up a…
Organic Gardening- the natural no-dig way by Charles Dowding
This book is a superb introduction from Green Books to a tried and tested organic gardening technique perfected by Charles Dowding over 25 years of hands on experience. A highly productive vegetable garden that involves…
Growing Organic Tomatoes
Nothing tastes quite like summer that a salad of freshly picked home grown organic tomatoes, sliced and sprinkled with basil and olive oil. A glass of chilled Corbieres Rose is a lovely companion, as are…
Montrouch Organic Plant Guides 2015
Montrouch Organic Plant Guides 2015 are now online. I’ve split it into two this year, the spring vegetables for the garden are now in the Guide Plantes Potager Bio 2015 and the aromatic herbs are listed on…
Corbieres gardening – with pick axe
You know when you are in the Corbieres when planting a simple Rosemary involved a pick axe, a wreaking bar and rock the size of foot balls. Still progress is moving along its merry way…