January
2011
We love winter – snow, crisp cold walks, wood fires
and slow cooking. Now that the festive season is over however,
our thoughts have turned to spring and planning the year ahead.
In 2010 the veg patch really came in to its own, providing us
with all sorts of fresh produce throughout the summer. Triumphs
came in the form of new potatoes, french beans, sprouting broccoli,
a bumper strawberry crop in June, parsnips, carrots and plenty
of salads and herbs. The tomatoes were also superb although an
early hard frost cut down the crop of plum tomatoes before they
could ripen. You win some you lose some....
Hopefully this year we'll see more fruits on the blackcurrants,
gooseberries and raspberries, now in their second season. The
rhubarb was also putting on some serious growth early last year
so we're hoping for a bumper crop, and we're keeping fingers crossed
that the remaining globe artichoke plants have survived the frosts
and mole tunnels. We'll be experimenting with chillies and aubergine
again (not so successful in 2010) as well as melon and cucumber,
spinach, celery and fennel.
For future harvests we'll be preparing a bed for asparagus this
autumn, and hope to plant our first fruit trees in front of the
house, probably apples so we can start thinking about cider making....
An ongoing garden diary can be found on the blog.
Making the most of the fresh harvests and great local produce,
we are now offering Gourmet Holidays for
foodies. Of course our self catering guests can still enjoy
Tim's delicious food - sample menus can be
found here.
We are also making plans for a cookery school, to be held in September
2011. If you would like to know more about this please drop us
a line – enquiries@gitelajonchere.com
We are now listed on the travel website Trivago.
We would be very grateful if our previous guests would
leave a review of your stay here.
In the meantime I'll just put another log on the fire....
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