Neglected lettuce

Back after almost three days away. Had to make a call to another neighbour Luc to help with the watering as we are having hot weather at last. And things don’t seem to have suffered too greatly by the neglect. The weeds are still growing lustily in the potager. And the grapes are ripening in the arbour. Even some of the peaches have chosen to ripen slightly before going soft, brown and rotten. I picked plenty of blackcurrents off the trees and made them into a tart at once.  Then it was onto the peach trees to see what could be salvaged. Sadly, the white peaches survive more than the yellow ones, and they are a bit mealy and unsatisfactory. But I have made enough into a fruit salad to warrant the moniker ‘fruit from our trees’.  Watered the chard and the lettuce. But didn’t have time to go up to the top potager at all. That’s telling. We really must only have crops up there that don’t need lots of attention. Or are so compelling (raspberries) that I will want to walk up to attend.