2009-6 and 7 Setting the tone ... and the water Letter No. 6, June 10, 2009
the tone! And wham, the sky was swollen and suddenly an amazing atmosphere, mixed with light, shadows, chills engulfed the site of the log. I was plowing and Stephanie took care of the tomatoes. A shimmering curtain approached at high speed in these black clouds and wham, in a second rain fell like a waterfall. Brrr, I got soaked to the cell. And the path became so
muddy we were wondering if you happen to
out. It was so beautiful, so sudden, so intense ..... privilege of a show.
20 mm in 10 minutes, with some large hail that have not had time to damage the crops. Just one watering and everything everywhere at once (even the aisles and herbs). Super!! Peissonnel but just to stick the dust! 2 mm.
5 The letter took a long time to come! And now the press is 6! Mood or need to say?
Or maybe just inspiration! The baskets are
rikiki right now and it makes me upside down! Even I know that I did everything as best I can and it will come good, it is amap ............ it does that I have a little trouble.
And yet it is a gift for me this interruption! A time delay to advance and be a little less in a hurry (time of harvest is very demanding in hours). A Time to blow and be a little more available for Lucien and Children. A time to enjoy my gardens so beautiful, a time to be listening to the explosive nature! There are chicks in nest boxes that had
last year. But be careful not to break! The carpo (to apples) expects it to its irreversible damage. This year I asked the sexual confusion! And yes with pheromones embedded in the small rod that attaches in the trees, I put the total at the bazaar carpo! And therefore no coupling, no nesting, no mess!! normally it is said that for large-area orchards, minimum one hectare, I put it anyway! At the same time I asked huts that attracts and carpo tock, it makes them stick in, to check that there is no theft. and I still see no carpo! Then I renewed the cabin thinking it was more efficient! And not always
no carpo! So you think, if I break it they are going to make me a dirty tricks.
Tomatoes grow quickly and the second rotations are really good. I found the solution for staking. It's a bit expensive, so I invested only two lines. It is a lifetime investment, so every year I make a little bit. I
well barricaded the bed of melon under the P17 (nonwoven fabric) to prevent any wind break as the other year. But this year we did not get too windy. Then the melons were grown really well, overwhelmed with everything everywhere and I removed the P17 and I see no melon! good moon has turned, the hive is in great shape, all the conditions are there to pollinate it thoroughly.
Anyway I suddenly a little stress! A little funk and hoopla is my fight! Confidence!
plantations of watermelons are beautiful. No one died! It was not often. I still have a rotation of tomato plant and some melons.
And now he must begin to think of strawberries for spring 2010!! With my colleagues, strawberries of spring are more productive than me. I think if I advance too, with the tunnels above, production is less important. And yet I understand why and then I can not not make spring strawberries!! so I will still see other ways ... and I know if I keep the early varieties such as Agathe and Galante, and finally I figure it is on!
And where I'm going to plant them? Please allow tillage. When using no chemistry with herbicides, it takes a lot longer. The land needs to be well worked, well in advance. So in my
p'tites anxieties baskets, plants, projects, I need to give you what good taste! When my singing teacher, Isabelle singing, gives me the right note, I am able to sing! And it's true, she is a fairy. But his tone gives me the opportunity to make the song. It magic!
because beyond this day, my whole being is in agreement with this beautiful art that I could do; it to me, Isabelle fields, to give you the tone of my land! And it is full of hope, happiness and love, beyond everything.
The aromatic chives and grow fast! So long live the sweet taste with stevia and licorice. Latvian
Our friends come to the end of the month. I will introduce them to distrib Thursday and Friday. I invite you to join us on these distros there. Isabelle
LETTER No. 7 WATER! Week Wind: no one who breaks everything, running in all directions, not a good little wind that day after day dry up permanently. The farm is starting to be pretty organized and can prevent it. * On
Peissonnel with withholding water is the best! Well she is deep, but I will not begun to worry me!
Remember the first two years when I did that drill, I went with the children and Lucien (Gerald and even got involved), pump 2'500l each trip (and three quarters of hours per trip) in the Aille 800m. Today, I press buttons on their dials and I open and close valves. The trick is not entangled. Pump up water tanks, another sends water in the four plots are supplied with pipes of 50 (diameter in cm). In each plot of fixed and mobile sectors (11) across cultures. This is the first year of this, it works well! and yes I am slow to understand
Electric (floats water shortages and filled!) and then the pipe sizes ... but then it rolls.
Well, if I had larger tubing and a larger pump, well, I watered all at the same time! And if any more were lined with electricity and hoopla, I solenoid! but as the current installation is already costing more or less 60'000francs oh yes it would make EUR € 9,600 and I left there and ben
bike ride (without brakes because I never time to repair, so I do like my kids and sometimes I spit serious ...). And it works well and so I'm going to flat beds and can check where it is. *
on the log, so it's starting to be pretty. I made a basin that is filled by gravity through the channel (which is a derivation of the Argens few miles above), but if suddenly more canal as in 2007, the river is just there and I install the small engine and presto it works! At the edge of the basin,
a larger engine and tied with a chain and padlock to a tree, (Jean-Luc and Sebastian built me a beautiful cottage in Peissonel for the pump at the edge of the reservoir this spring, log is still doing!) and sends water into three parcels divided into 5 sectors. And that's great, is the rupture of gas that stops the watering (there's no electricity on this site), I measure the time
watering to the amount of fuel. And in addition the engine starts at first string without me dislocated shoulder. *
on the farm I use drip irrigation in the flowerbeds and drippers variable rate for the trees. For this type of irrigation, it is essential to filter the water and of course to adjust the pressure, there is still tinkering and pif! Otherwise it becomes again quite expensive. *
under plastic mulch (biodegradable or not), I put on drip ducts. They cost a fortune, so I recovered from one year to another. But as it is normally not made for that, well, I have leaks or clogged emitters. And then it gets harder. Surveillance is not only at the beginning of flower beds, but also all along the flower beds and sometimes connections
repair will drop out because in addition to these ducts, they vary in length depending on whether it is the dodger of the day or cool night and the temperature of the water. All this talk to say that suddenly there is a piece that is not watered in the middle of the flowerbed! more so if it's windy!
you imagine !!!!!
is true that wind is a little fairy caress when you sweat under the summer sun, but as soon as it is increasing water stress for my dear cultures and psychological me!
and then this stress is (psychological), you know, it is vicious and tiring. But what is not tiring? Nap? And it's true that fatigue, when it persists beyond a good night's sleep, it is wearing. And with my 46ans, well, it m'use. So when the wind dies down, the crops are beginning to offer their crops when irrigation works, the children have left the house, it does not heat wave is all this in less fatigue and I assure you that it's nice. This morning starts like this and plus I stayed longer! Then it's the holidays ... or almost!
This week you have seen a fruit that is not a fruit tree but an annual plant!
Squash St-Jean 15 days overdue! It is a squash that we can not find the seeds at the shops. My friend Daniel gave me three boxes of seedlings to plant along the rotation of the greenhouse tomato (yes the one that took off). It is with Sylvain that we place the mulch in appalling conditions, I could not move the tiller and even less so
tractor was wet. But with the big muscles we Sylvain escaped and were planted in the field pumpkins, then we place a nonwoven (p17), to limit the actions of the cold, the same as the first melons that there is no market! but squash it requires less hot. And then after suddenly I was late to remove the veil and I saw no fruit because bees do not go under the veil! They can not enter, and now I rejoice in the pain (it's too heavy for one of these squash my back), fortunately does not last long!! I put a ribbon in the earliest, best to let them go until full maturity for seed production
. With me, there are no other varieties of squash! So I hope to have the seed conforms to parents. And these seeds will be distributed to other farmers in our network of peasants amap.
And of course I am delighted to offer our friends Latvian peasants. And then there
my back really does not care to suffer a little blow under the weight of the squash St. John, who traditionally make up the soup with pesto. I distributed two weeks in a row for the contracts shared benefit. Overall
the tomatillos and aromatics are not always appreciated. Tomatillos can be eaten raw, cooked, sweetened, salted! That may be why they block you in your imagination. Personally I eat them raw in salads in small pieces, cooked in a skillet with zucchini and other vegetables or pie. A amapienne said she made them into an omelette with onions.
Chives, basil should not ask yourself too many problems. For others, try the herbal cold! It's refreshing. But dare invent. Make cream stevia or lemon verbena or tea! You put them in place of the traditional vanilla or more! Or ice, or in your dishes
vegetables or meats! I like to do just thrilled with the olive oil with leaves of sage and coarse salt on a plate of pasta. Or cook the fish with the lemon verbena, sage or save the leg of lamb, etc. .... and if it is not your thing leave your aromatics on your windshield every time you drive, you crumple a piece! It is a caress of my gardens in your daily stress!
workshops still exist! I make the request and the actors! so if it tells you! but more attention will be early in the gardens is more enjoyable.
The Latvian delegation was received in late June. A big thank you to Sylvia who was stoned and all who have given so that this exchange is a success. It is stimulated by Urgenci, an international association created at the end of the first international symposium in 2004 in Aubagne amap (the next is in Japan in February). Emergency has received funding from the Fondation de France to instil the concept amap in 10 countries is entered in Europe and Morocco. The Foundation recently recognized all this work by giving a second grant to continue the work! I remind you that with Sylvain, we went to Latvia in February. The basis of the spin, whether in Latvia or here at home (all of amap Dracénie are the baby of the amap Flayosquet) is the producer consumer pairs. He is the guarantor of the concept as the human is the axis of the concept. This sponsorship of Latvia, for me, is an extraordinary adventure, a discovery.
Yesterday I returned to my field of peach trees to grind the manure which is so dry that cracks! I wish to my new flower beds of strawberries in this plot. It is therefore imperative that I begin to prepare. The plants are nearing the end of the month and will be planted in September. No question I fall behind. We always talk about the storms of July 14 and August 15 of those. I count on them to soften the ground so I could work the land. It's a huge pain to get into that parcel. All these trees have been planted with amapiens in 2003, I pampered, petted, etc. ... all this work, all those hopes, all shattered by these five months of stagnant water. I smell a smell of fermentation. I had all abandoned since late May. Nature has taken its space and is
filled with all sorts of insect and when I arrived with the tractor and the machine that crushes all (girobroyeur), these locusts are running away! While the swallows me through a dance. It will cut the trees and then pull them out. Tear, emotion, acceptance, reconstruction is like strawberries that put so much time to produce because planted later because I could not prepare the ground because I could not get into the plot with the tractor .... .
choices now have a direct impact on the future, what you have in the distro! and the smallest little choice be fatal or otherwise the little extra that makes it magic at the finish. If I opted to wait until the pitch is playable for planting squash St-Jean! Who knows where they would
? And if I did not go to the adventure because of the possible lack of water!
Well my choice of peach was fed by the severe drought (2003) and the lack of availability of irrigation water! Not by a rainy winters! There is visible! Who is counted is judged, is calculated, etc. .... and the invisible which gives life its mystery and character. Thank you for being there to dry my tears, heal my wounds and give this wonderful energy to invent and still make the best choices
. Good summer to you, children, sun, crops.
Isabelle
