I Hate Hayfever

Here is my kitten-delayed post about hayfever.
I don’t normally get hayfever – but I’ve been suffering this last two weeks. Thanks to the dry, hot weather pollen levels have been incredibly high. And May sees the greatest different number of pollens floating around. The main culprits in France in May are:

Trees
Silver birch – bouleau; Hornbeam [...]

Electric Gardening

I often leaf through the some of the old magazines we inherited when we bought Les Fragnes. La Prosperité à la Campagne is one of my favourites. We have issues dating from 1932 and 1933.
In the July 1932 issue, I came across an article on electroculture – electric gardening basically! It looked very persuasive. The [...]