Biodiversity

Preparing the vegetable garden today by weeding the plots and adding sawdust for mulching. Sowing beans and broad beans on one side, carrots, radishes and lettuce on the other. Large plot on the right reserved for fruiting vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, etc). Raspberry bushes mulched...

The idea behind this project is to make the area formed by the DR, the OMP with the CESBIO and the LAAS, as well as the "little wood" that separates us from the canal, a welcoming place for biodiversity, with an LPO Refuge label to match.

The ducks and moorhens had long since deserted our “duck pond” which was poorly named.

But a couple of mallards have reinvested the place.

Of course, it has rained a lot for a few weeks and the water level in the pond has risen.

Perhaps the cessation of the use of glyphosate also has something to do with it.

A rare autumn orchid, the autumn spiranthe, has appeared in the lawns of LAAS...

News from the vegetable garden, hedge and wild orchids...