With the rain, the allotment gardens of Tours regain affluence

Day by day, Béatrice goes to her small plot within the Jardin de la Bergeonnerie, close to the College of Deux-Lions de Excursions. “It is actually my pleasure area. For me, it is like a form of meditation.” The retired Tourangelle has occupied location C62 for ten years, the place she crops every kind of fruit and veggies. “Tomatoes, salads, broad beans, peas, beans … It is nice to have the ability to eat what we’ve got harvested.”

However this 12 months she has just a little late. “Initially, it was too dry to work the land. When it began to rain, I used to be completely happy however now it’s kind of an excessive amount of! It could take just a little lull as a result of in any other case I can be actually in a rush, with out unhealthy play on phrases (laughs).” Her strawberries are nonetheless in bloom, whereas final 12 months, she had already eaten it. “The very first ones, I picked them up on Could 14, I bear in mind. They weren’t very candy, however at the least there was. There, I’ve nothing. “

I simply digged, earlier than I could not, it was too exhausting

The soils have solely been cultivable for about ten days. He fell 40 to 60 millimeters of water in Touraine, relying on the placement, as a lot as up to now two months. For Gérard, it’s due to this fact lastly the second to get all the way down to his backyard. “I’m planting pink onions as a result of it has rained quite a bit, the earth is kind of moist, and they’ll set immediately. I simply digged, earlier than I could not, it was too exhausting. Now we’ve got to stop. ‘the climate is sweet! “

It’s certainly the solar that may enable greens to develop. With the new wet week forward, it begins badly. However not sufficient to undermine the morale of Jean-Paul, just a little additional. “It is okay, I’ve the whole lot I must care for myself. I am going to have barbecues and I am going to go chat with my mates!”