Today's highlight: to stand on the high step of the ladder to pick Grams' High Pea planted in the garden's highest raised bed. Despite the fact that this year they have been planted behind the greenhouse for lack of better, they still...
When I grow tomatoes from my own seeds, I usually buy fresh seeds of the variety in question every few years. On the one hand, there may be some cross-pollination, and on the other hand, other genetic changes may occur over time.
A good...
Unfortunately, my early maize of the Butterscotch variety is now infested with the fungal disease maize apple. They have certainly been in previous years, but I have never noticed it, as the bed has been finished before the disease has spread...
Today, 10.8., the last batch of lettuce of the year was sown, which should give fresh lettuce from the end of October until everything goes well until Christmas Eve (last year it succeeded with a little good will and a cold vegetable drawer). The...
When you want to grow different main cabbages as a 2nd crop by planting sometime in June / July, it requires varieties that are fairly quickly developed. At the same time, they should preferably not, as fully developed, suddenly give in to...
Talking about sun-ripened tomatoes would probably be something of an insinuation, but I have never had so many rain-ripened ones outdoors in late October.
Actually, garlic was supposed to be put after the tomatoes, but does anything tell me...