Bonjour!
A cozy winter week in which we spent our days on the renovation works, cooking, working for my training business and finally making a plan for all the garden work that’s ahead of us. Spring is coming! I can’t wait to see the garden come to life again!
Thanks for being here!
Marloes
Recipe for the “tarte fine aux pommes”:
1 store bought puff pastry
3 apples
2 tablespoons of sugar
8g vanilla sugar (or use 2 tsp sugar and 1 tsp vanilla)
1 egg
200ml cream
Put the puff pastry with the parchment paper that comes with it in a baking sheet. Sprinkle the sugar over the pastry. Peel the apples and cut them into thin slices. Arrange them in an overlapping pattern on the pastry. Whisk the egg with the cream and vanilla sugar and pour over the apples. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 Celsius for 25 minutes.
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45 Comments
Is there any cook book coming out ? I would like to purchase one that has all your recipes !
Beautiful countryside! It's good that you have help coming to rejuvenate your property…it will be a project but eventually it will look heavenly. Thanks for the recipe. Regards from Wisconsin, USA
The herbs can be saved! You have so much potential!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3FkaN0HQgs
Nature really is so powerful and I’m sure your garden will come out lovely, excited to see the progress. Also the opening of this video was absolutely stunning.❄️
I admire your patience. But it's coming together.
I like the drone shots of everything in the area.😊
Not following a recipe is great. It shows you want to add your own twist which is probably better. Cheers from California 😎
quel bonheur de voir ce ciel si étoilé …nous n'avons plus ce loisir avec la pollution lumineuse qui nous cache la beauté de la nature ….
Hi! Didyou say you were concern with the Oleaders plants that you have in your green house? If so do not worry these plants are very hardy. Iam not a fan of Oleanders mainly for their foul oder,and are very poisonous,and are great for nesting cockroaches' I really enjoy your viedos.Happy gardening .from California!
I always look up to the clouds 😊
I am not at all surprised that you have two separate people who want to help you. How perfectly wonderful to stay in that adorable cottage with the hot tub to soothe sore muscles at the end of the day. Regarding your garden, keep in mind you live in the countryside. Country gardens are simple. Repeat plants that do well such as the hydrangeas and lavender, herbs, wild flowers (they take care of themselves). Low maintenance….. good luck, it will be so fun to watch the progress! 🙏😊
I understand that you are overwhelmed by your garden and I know what you are feeling.
I myself bought a house seven months ago with a garden too Big for me and although I love gardening I was feeling overwhelmed with the work to be done.
So I started a flower bed which I was very pleased with and can't wait for the results but I finally hired a gardener to help me which I haven't regretted.
So we do have to Ask for help sometimes but I know your garden will be beautiful this summer.
I Hope one day I could rent your tiny home and see how beautiful your garden has grown.
Can tell you are overwhelmed. Take deep breaths!!
Greetings from Greece!
I do that with recipes Marloes .. then the next time I can’t remember what else I added to make it so tasty 😆 My garden is the same. It always looks so tatty & unkept as this time of the year. I’m glad you’ve got help coming .. it will all be beautiful again ☺️
nice
You have a beautiful garden area and when helps comes it will come together. ❤
I remember when I first had a garden 🪴 I was clueless.. if it lived I killed it ! Lol 😂 .. it’s a huge learning curve and it’s hard to stay motivated.. plant more in pots simple mixed seeds it rarely fails and it will give you colour while you sort the garden out it took me 18 years .. I really miss my garden .. that apple pie looked yummy ( lecker?) .. you’re doing good Marloes ❤
I am so pleased to have discovered French Country Life! I'm stuck in a Northern, very cold climate right now and seeing even the inkling of green in winter herbs makes me envious. I find your images, music and narration oh so relaxing! And I love your honesty! Making that yummy-looking butternut squash tart very soon!
Hi from Australia, I love your vlogs and your cooking. Do you have a recipe book coming out? I would love the recipe for your risotto and those two beautiful tarts 😋don’t worry the garden will come back when you have time to devote to it. Good luck and thanks for sharing your lovely home 😊
[haai-dreen-djaaz] zo spreek je Hortensia's uit 🙂 Fijn dat je hulp krijgt! Jammer dat ik het niet wist, ik had je dolgraag geholpen. Je wordt wereldberoemd, Marloes, als ik zie uit welke landen je allemaal berichtjes krijgt 😉 Succes en laat je niet gek maken door de hoeveelheid werk. Doe afgepaste stukken, anders word je dol. Ik weet uit ervaring dat het lastig is om te stoppen als je eenmaal bezig bent in de tuin. "Komt goed, zeggen ze hier in Brabant'.
Once the ladies are in the garden they will be able to help. If you putter in the garden, doing a little trimming, whatever, just remember one hour better, 10 minutes better… It helps get me going doing little tasks in the winter and I think about relaxing more in the summer! Going with your feelings in the garden is helpful too, I think. I plan inside and when I go outside I feel completely different. No garden mistakes, just experiments! Good luck!
One step at a time. It will all come together. Enjoy the process!
Hi! I live in the SE US. We have nurseries that sell plants and trees and offer advice on when to do what, and have people to hire for help. Maybe you have similar nurseries? If you have a small hand clipper, you can cut the suckers that are growing out of the base of the lilacs, and trim the clumps of grasses. Go ahead and mix your vinegar, soap and salt but only spot treat the weeds because it will change the ph of the soil under the gravel and can hurt the trees and shrubs there. Pull weeds after a rain when the soil is wet and soft. Maybe your plants in the greenhouse will come back and may only need a light pruning of dead wood and leaves. I would start now, do a little each day you can, leave the hard, heavy work for your helpers. Maybe move the dining set onto the gravel and move a few pots onto the wood deck… just my thoughts! I wish i could come give you a hand! I look forward to seeing your progress! And i love your suggestion of looking up to the sky and how the vastness minimizes our problems. Beautiful!!
So beautiful!!!
Your garden will be beautiful..Marloes🤩😍🦋🌻🌺⚘🌱🌲🌿🍀..So nice to have some talented help coming .Im in Wyoming USA and can't get lavender to grow here ..nor roses ..herbs are ok 👌
I made your Tarte recipe tonight ..it was so yummy …Needed that after our very cold and snowy month we have had here ..Many Thanks Marloes for sharing ..😋🤩😍
Love your place and surroundings and the pie looks good
It is interesting to see the tree in your garden that you trimmed to head-height a few years ago and now it is growing many stems from the cut surface. I don’t know if you know what I’m going to teach you about it, but in English, this technique for woodland management is called pollarding. It is an ancient technique for growing new, supple branches to be used for weaving fences and walls. This woven fencing is called wattle. In the old days, and in the old places, wattle was a very common building material, either by itself for fences and enclosures, but also, when plastered with a mixture of mud, straw and dung, called daub, it made walls for barns, sheds and even houses. People needed lots of fresh, supple branches every year. Pollarding was done carefully, and on a strict schedule so as to make best use of the trees to grow the stems that could be harvested without ever killing the trees. Pollarding is the technique for cutting head-height. When the forester cut the trees lower down, nearer the roots, it was for the same purpose, but is called coppicing. He would pollard the trees in areas where grazing animals would have eaten the new saplings. He could coppice in sheltered areas where no animals grazed. It is the origin of the English word copse, which denotes an area of dense tree growth.
You have pollarded your tree which is probably a very French thing. Your native farming neighbors can probably tell you all about it. You should be proud of your pollarded tree. You just need to clean it up a little.
Just like the rest of your garden. Everything will flourish in time, it just needs to be cleaned up a little. Best wishes.
We've grown cut flowers for years and ended up establishing more perennials like the hydrangeas, lavender, echinacea and other flowering bushes so they become the structure of your garden and come up every year and then add some annuals here and there for pops of color like (zinnias, marigolds, calendula, cosmos….) If you can do raised bed planters it would help the plants get better established as you could put some good soil in the beds and the flowers don't get mixed in with the grass. It will come together, often in the winter nothing looks great but in the spring when the leaves come back it starts to fill in the empty spots. You'll have beautiful gardens, you have a lovely place! (:
and then you help Olav and left your fingers under the stairs when setting the stairs down…ouch! Olav was smart not to chuckle.
Even een reactie in nederlands: kies vooral onderhoudsarme planten. Er zijn er zo veel die zo mooi zijn en ook die bloeien. De tuin van de vorige bewoners was prachtig maar dat krijg je vooral voor elkaar als je graag en heel veel in de tuin werkt. Bij mij werkt onderhoudsarme planten, ook planten die mooi zijn in de winter, bloemen die makkelijk uitzaaien of zichzelf uitzaaien. Elke dag even een momentje van ca. 30 minuten door de tuin indien mogelijk (is ook mijn voornemen maar lukt zeker niet altijd) dan hou je het bij en wordt het werk niet zo enorm. Goed idee om mensen uit te nodigen tegen kost en inwoning om het grote werk te doen! Succes en ben benieuwd hoe het eruit ziet in de lente 😊
You are doing a great job ❤
What a beautiful sweet reminder that I much needed, to "look up." Thank you!
Someone once gave me a notepad with a “to do” list. Numbers one and two were already filled out for the day. They read 1. Breathe in, 2. Breathe out. You are doing the right thing; all will work out this year. You have already accomplished so much and with the help you will be getting, i know it will be beautiful.
There is a work program called Work Away that you can sign up for people to come and help you for free and you provide room and board for them. A lot of you tubers use it since they screen the people and have had good results. I know 8n am planning on using i5 since I too have physical limitations. Hugs, love, and lots of prayers from Texas.
It will look wonderful in summer – just you wait and see!
It’s going to be fantastic! You envision such wonderful things and they are all coming in fruition. It seems like a real daunting task for us to begin our garden adventure, I was telling Justin that we really need a lawn mower with tool that helps upturn soil. That’s the hard part I feel.
As a gardener myself I know how hard and tricky keeping a good one is. And its constant work, but is so rewarding and calming. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Making a plan takes the overwhelming Ickys away. It will turn out beautifully, like everything else you touch.
You have a great memory. You remembered applying vinegar will kill weeds by drastically changing the soil PH. Salt kills things too.
Since the previous owners were spending hours every day maintaining the garden, perhaps it's best that you had to destroy it. You can replace it with plants native to your region for low maintenance … better for you, better for your environment and native wildlife. 👍
Like you said all will be back to beautiful….Thank-you for sharing your amazing home and future plans✨
Keeping a garden takes patience and time. Work in small areas and that way you see results. Your place is beautiful.
I love your channel. Your garden will be beautiful.
I cook just like you haha 1 thing here in the states we have is a liquid vanilla not the lil packets… I made a batch that will last years and thought you might like to make some too!!! I bought a bottle of spiced rum and vanilla beans I ordered online 10 of them, split them in half scraping the vanilla seeds into the liquid along with the beans , put them in a large lidded glass jar in the cubbord for like 6 months shaking them every so often, now I have a lot of natural vanilla I put in a pretty bottle to use : ) cindy