JEAN, WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING (no pun intended)?
Bonjour, Loulou.
Well, actually we DON’T dig a lot, but we do know that our green-thumb neighbor, Jean, who has the lovely big garden below us (now growing strawberries and the famous peppers of Espelette) is to be seen every morning over the last two weeks digging up his old garden’s soil and transporting it to St Andre, the town next door, where he moved last year!
We’re talkin’ YARDS and YARDS of top soil.
Every morning, dig, dig, dig, and then he takes huge garbage cans of soil to his car and drives it to the garden of his new house. Evidently, his new house had only rocks in the ground designated to be a (huge) new garden.
We’ve not visited the new house yet, but mama asked him yesterday why he didn’t just jack up the new house and move it HERE, to the old garden, haha.
All I can say is this is one serious gardener!
As for me and my extensive garden experience, I have a rather deep affinity for plants. Witness the expert way I dive into my nip bed without the need for garden gloves or tools!
It think you could say I have a green nose for plants, haha.
Although, it’s easy to lose one’s concentration in a nip bed…
That sounds like a lot of work. We love your Nip Loulou
You really cannot believe what Jean has done. We’re tired just watching him!
How nice you found the nip, Loulou!
Hey, I always find the nip.
I bet you will miss your neighbor Jean but if he’s a gardener he probably has fabulous soil and no wonder he’s moving a lot of it to his NEW home. He’ll have a great start on a NEW garden there. As for you – your green nose is evident – you and Nip are best friends right?
Hugs, Teddy 🙂
Uh, yes, it does have its … pull….
Kitty’s on catnip are too cute, Loulou. Gardening is fun. We humans should do more of it. Something about the dirt in-between the fingers that takes us back to childhood days.
Oh, you are so right. We LOVE gardening. Mama gets DOWN when she digs, haha.
LOL – well, it’s easy to lose one’s concentration in a garden full of cherry tomatoes!! I’ve never tried nip – do we smoke it or roll in it? Hoping for NO RAIN Saturday evening!!!! See you then!
YES, we are doing an anti-rain dance today to try to keep water away!!!
That is a nice nip bed.
Well, thank you, and now I have two….
What do the people who now own his house think of Jean removing their yard ? That must be some topsoil, but we also believe – from what you have told us – that he knows what he is doing. C’est la dirt?
The garden is separate from the group of apartments/family house that he sold over a year ago, and now that property is a group of redone apartments for the tourists who flock here all year round. So the garden is only Jean’s. He has worked it for over 60 years and would be bereft without it but for now, it’s not for sale.
It’s nice to have nice neighbors Loulou!
You are so, so right. And he and Christine are the BEST. They share their produce and EGGS with us. But now the chickies are gone, sigh…..