If, like us, you have access to an irrigation canal, water supply is simple during the summer months: you water or irrigate at the set times as laid down by your Mairie.
It can come as quite a surprise just how much water is lost from a swimming pool via evaporation, due to heat, humidity and wind.
The mosquito, (‘little fly’ in Spanish) has been around for more than 30 million years.
Evaporation or a leaky pool? It can come as quite a surprise just how much water is lost from a swimming pool via evaporation, due to heat, humidity and wind.
GARDENING NOTES FOR JULY by Gill Storey When fine weather arrives in July, we are out there at 7 in the morning weeding and planting before the temperature rises too much. This is the time for…
In June you should be planting seeds for the coming year in both the potager and the flower garden
Another holiday and rental season is fast approaching and now is the time to start thinking about all those little (or big) jobs that need doing for next season around your property.
The P-O is on red alert for pollen allergy. According to the RNSA (National Aerobiological Surveillance Network), responsible for the analysis of the content of the air, cypress pollen is at a particularly high level in our region as well as the Hérault, Aude, Lozère, Aveyron and Tarn.
January is the coldest month of the year but it presents a real challenge: very little is growing, the branches are bare, the spring bulbs are just peeping up and one can see the bare bones of the garden.
Growing tomatoes can be challenging even if both thumbs are green.
