2007 Bernard Baudry Chinon "Les Granges"

[Thomas]

Vouvrayhead,

You'd faint if you saw what my wife and I are doing on our property. I nearly faint each afternoon, after having put in the hours it takes to keep up with everything; but then, we eat the stuff and oh, boy...

We've got 50 tomato plants (four types), 40 pepper plants (hot and sweet), 30 okra (purple and green), 20 bean (5 different beans), about 50 fennel (for seeds and for bulbs), 50 onion, 50 leeks, 30 shallots, just picked whatever garlic I could get from originally 100 bulbs(most ruined by rain in June), a half dozen eggplant, a dozen ogan melons (Israeli melons, next best thing to a Persian melon), cucumbers, pumpkins, 15 Brussels sprouts, thyme, basil, bay leaf, parsley, lavender, chamomile, mint, oregano, lemon balm, lemon verbana, bohrum (sp) and many different greens for salads. Plus, we grow four types of raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, Queen Anne cherries (lost most of them to rain, too), Italian plums, Bartlett pears, two types of apples, four fig trees, and one olive tree (it's in a pot, for novelty).

Whew! I'm sure I forgot a few...



[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 07-13-2009).]