“I put this in place on Monday at the last minute,” explains the son of farmers, originally from the Ruffécois, who returned his closets and those of his parents-in-law in search of textiles. It is really in system D. But we are currently going through heat so important that it is difficult to stay outside, in the sun, more than five minutes. So I dare not imagine my tomatoes without protection all day! »»
If it is not yet able to judge whether its device has borne fruit, Jean-Luc Sauvage, 64, still notes that the rare uncover feet seem to suffer from the heat. Some of his tomatoes, watered regularly with the help of the water he comes to draw from the village washhouse, have considerably reduced in size and present all chipped skin.
A heartbreaker for the retiree for two and a half years who passes his daily life between his green beans, cucumbers, potato and row of vines that he only cultivates to peck grapes between two feet of peppers. “I spend so much time there that I would like everything to take!” But it’s the game of gardening. We are forced to adapt to the environment and its changes. Like the small episodes of rain that could, already, lead him to dismantle his makeshift development.
