Learn about gardening in France
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| Create Your Own French Herb, Flower, or Vegetable Garden! |
| In this lesson, we’re going to learn about gardening in France. I’m Becky, and you're listening to Season 1, Lesson 17 - Create Your Own French Herb, Flower, or Vegetable Garden! |
| One of the unique passions of the French people is gardening, or jardinage. Many people own their own yard, even if it only covers a few square meters. Those who don't have one still have the opportunity to rent a plot in the huge communal gardens in the city where they live. |
| In the past few years, a number of big brand name stores of gardening products have opened around the country, including Jardiland and Truffault. The latter is even open on Sundays, a very rare occurrence in France. French people find the pastime of gardening very relaxing—the contact with the earth, or terre, and the feeling of doing something useful are truly rewarding. |
| One of the more common plants in most people’s yards is aromatic herbs, or herbes aromatiques. In the north of France you can find lots of chives and parsley, which are used very often in French cooking. Toward the south we find more gardens with basil, which is used a lot along with tomato sauce, as well as thyme and rosemary. |
| Some people choose only to grow flowers, or fleurs in their garden, such as roses, honeysuckle, tulips, and so on. Sometimes, you can find dried lavender, or lavande, in markets, picked straight from a person’s own garden. This is usually put in fabric bags and then placed in a wardrobe to give the laundry a fresh, pleasant smell. |
| Of course, we can’t go without mentioning one of the important pleasures of French people, which is eating vegetables, or légumes, that they grow themselves. If you’re lucky enough to be invited to eat at a French family’s home in the summer, you’ll certainly be served a tomato salad and maybe strawberries for dessert, all of which come straight from the family’s own garden. This kind of organic, or in French biologique, production is currently very trendy in France. |
| So listeners, how did you like this lesson? Did you learn anything interesting? |
| Do many people enjoy gardening in your country? |
| Until next time! |
Comments
HideDo many people enjoy gardening in your country?
Bonjour Suzie,
That's quite interesting! That way everyone can garden! :-)
Bonne journée,
Marion
Team FrenchPod101.com
I Sverige har vi kolonilotter där man kan odla sina egna grönsaker.Man betalar en liten summa per år den är cirka 5 gånger fem meter
Bonjour Mike,
Oui, moi aussi ! 😞
Bonne journée,
Marion
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Je voudrais avoir un potager. Mais, je suis trop occupe’
Bonjour Gillian et merci pour votre joli commentaire ! ?
Voici la correction : Nous avons un potager ou nous faisons pousser (les plantes poussent, les légumes poussent, mais pas les humains. Donc il faut dire "faire pousser".) beaucoup de légumes et fruits. En ce moment nous mangeons des pommes de terres, des haricots verts, des poivrons, des framboises, des pommes, des murs et bientôt, des poires.
J'aimerais avoir un jardin pour faire comme vous un jour !
Bonne journée !
Marie Alice
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J'adore le jardinage. Nous avons un grand jardin et beaucoup de fleurs. Nous avons un potager ou nous poussons beaucoup de légumes et fruits. A ce moment nous mangeons des pommes de terres, des haricots verts, des poivrons, des framboises, des pommes, des murs et bientôt, des poires. Tous de notre jardin. C'est très satisfaisant.
Bonjour Thoeiba,
Thank you very much for leaving the comment!
Looking forward to seeing you often here. :)
Sincerely,
Cristiane
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Many thanks for this very interested lesson. I like it. This really a fact. I 'm rent a part at a French family house. They have an other house in the countryside. They plant vegetables and fruits so we used the eat bio products.