Photo taken this weekend, when I put the basil and parsley in the cellar
I’ll give it a couple of weeks before I transplant the lettuce
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What are the bush things? Chilli’s?
Poivrons, piments de les Landes 
and the brown looking ones probably dead egg plants.
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Culinary question -I’ve looked it up online, but what do you use it for?
Just as you would with piment d’Espelette, Basque and other local / SW varieties. We eat some fresh when they’re green and red in late Summer salads, or cook them, Mrs W. makes an amazing Landaise Piperade with them and poached eggs. Some we freeze some for Winter dishes and dry a few to powder to lightly spice / flavor up a dish.
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Wow! You’re going to harvest a lot of things.
What is your own extent of gardening here in France @David_Wilson ?
I’ve planned a huge crop of botterbeans this year. Are you growing any, David?
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I don’t have much experience in gardening, apart from helping my wife plant some roses and lilies.
I see. In what fields do you have experience?.
Update on the sweet potato, lettuce and onions 
Sweet potato sprouting, some of the lettuce transplanted and the onions are going to get a haircut this evening and going into the salad bowl.
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Probably seem like a stupid question, but what do you do with the sprouting bits?
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I was wondering the same thing! How do the baby sweet potatoes get made…?
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This is the first time I’ve grown them. From watching YT videos and reading on the forum, when they get about 6” either cut or snap them off and put in a glass of water to develop roots, when roots have developed plant in large pots.
I’ll be putting more updates as they come along.
Thanks @Wozza , when they’re cut off, are they the “slips”? How do you get the sweet potato to sprout?
I’ve seen two methods, insert toothpicks about halfway and place half the potato in a jar of water ou as I’ve done plant the potato in a container leaving half above the soil, lightly water so soil is moist but not wet. My neighbour tried the former and I the latter, hers rotted (maybe a bad potato to start with)?
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@Mark this is the next step. Have a go easy and a bit of fun.
Might it be like dahlias? I let them spout then cut off what I call a slip - the sprout with a sliver of the tuber - and plant that up. They tend to grow well and flower more abundantly than replanting old tubers.
chitting?
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