Wow @Wozza ! 
Please may I borrow you? In your spare time would you like to come and stay in our gite and sort out my garden? Pretty please! 
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Free time, what’s that 
If I find some I’ll keep you in mind.
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I don’t think my sweet potatoes are quite ready to harvest however one has been bursting from the ground for a while and hilling up hasn’t really worked and it seemed a critter may have started to have a nibble so I decided to pull them up, quite pleased, just over 1kg!
if they all do that I should get 10kg which will do me for the winter!
I was surprised how close they were to the surface though, didn’t even need a tool!! Unless there are more hidden deep!!
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Just put in a single sweet potato plant as an experiment and harvested last week. The biggest is about 12 cm at its widest. The OH did butternut and sweet potato soup for lunch. Delicious.
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You did better than mine that I harvested. Still 9 plants left but not sure when to harvest them 
We were told to wait until the leaves started to curl and then harvest them, but they didn’t curl at all, still looked very healthy. This year has been a bit bizarre. Butternut and sweet potato have done brilliantly as have the sweet peppers and chillies and all our herbs have gone bonkers especially the tarragon and thyme. Tomatoes have been very disappointing. For the fruit, it’s just the plums, raspberries and blackcurrant that have done well. The rest have been disappointing. Swings and roundabouts.
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Planted just over 100 garlic, +/- 40 shallots & +/- 60 Snowball onions, next week if it stays dry a couple of pkts of broad beans.
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Still have a few others to harvest Mrs W has munched a few others in her soupes de soir or she’s cooked up for our meals.
Nice harvest @toryroo 
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Looking for ideas, I’ve been asked to join a new association and draft plans for a medieval-themed garden. The plants will be medicinal, tinctorial, small fruiting, cometible, herbs, etc. Also, a potager…
Any ideas for the layout and the types of plants will be welcome.
Garden_Projet_VSketch.pdf (1.8 MB)
If anyone would like the sketch in dwg, rvt send me a PM.
A few photos of the lieu
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For plants regularly grown in the middle ages, you could look at the ‘Capitulaire De Villis’
The Herbularius at Fontevraud was designed using plants from this source. We went to Fontevraud in the early 90’s with a botanist friend and he was fascinated by all the different herbs and plants for dyes etc grown there.
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Might like to look at this garden (ok, so it’s not in France…) and they are a lovely bunch of people.
Also the Lambeth Garden Museum
I think I still have a book on medieval garden design if you’d like it - I’m not going to be building a new medieval garden again! (I was a landscape architect in a previous life)
And if you have a dyer’s garden I can give you a list!
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That woad be great 
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Thanks,
I’m working with Patrice Blandin, who worked on the Fontevraud project.
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Oh yes please Jane,
I know diddly or very little of plants other than argi / horti edable plants. Though I do know how to prune roses & will be giving lessons to the members of the association .
(I was a landscape architect in a previous life) Would love to see any ideas you have, a sketch or two on the pdf and screen shots, you never know your layout may be chosen for the garden of the abbaye de Vézelay.
if you have a dyer’s garden I can give you a list… Pls do.
Love to read the books, send me a PM with address & I’ll forward the amount for P&P.
Edit and a few euros for a charity of your choice.
@DrMarkH
Any ideas? Architectural layouts.
Approximately from 500 AD to 1500 AD so a few designs to play with.
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