Just a general update as to what we are managing to grow this year.Not having a garden of our own we rent  an old vineyard with two other couples...one French, one German It's now known as the international garden.

 We acquired this last year, fenced it in to protect against the wild boar and bought a pump to bring water up from the well. So began the first experience in growing in the sandy soil with the hot windy weather. Not quite what we were used to after rainy North of England.Last year we discovered the moles who dislodged all the plants, the voles who ate all the bottoms of the carrots and the ants carried off all the slug pellets. The crops were just ok but this year we were better prepared.

Had a great crop of rasps, strawbs, rhubarb, potatoes, red and yellow toms...big and small ones, peppers, kohl rabi,lettuce and celery.
The cucumbers and gherkins were a disaster.
Awaiting the sweet potatoes,carrots and melons