...of the garden.

The blacker stuff on top of the soil is fumier de mouton

Gardening, though work, is fun. A swarm of blackflies in your face diminishes it some. Nonetheless, tomatoes, radishes and peas were planted in the thoroughly turned and weeded plot. Radishes never seem to do well here, and peas have a habit of net getting harvested, but beans are going in soon, and they seem to prosper.