Hello everybody!
I decided to keep notes and records on my gardening endevours in this space and would like to invite you to have a look and share your thoughts. Maybe this thread will be of use to someone growing the seeds that grew in this garden or maybe someone will be happy to see plants from his seeds growing here. Otherwise I’m happy to share the fun of gardening and breeding with you. I like visiting other peoples gardens and hearing their stories and I like to watch plants grow.
I will add some pictures later on, but let me first introduce to you the general situation.
The garden is located in the Rhine valley, in the city of Bonn, at the edge of a village called Geislar. (50° 44′ N, 53 m of elevation)
The piece of land is about 1900 m² big and is mostly an orchard with heavy clay soil, where I have set up a few permanent, semi raised, beds, that I’m enlarging this year.
We rent the property since the spring of 2020, so it’s my 6th season of playing with plants here.
We don’t have running water or electricity on the property.
I collect rainwater from the roof of the shed and work the garden with a hoe and broadfork.
In terms of fertility I did use some pelleted cow manure, horn meal and composted horse manure, as well as some ground rock dust last year. Apart from that I have a compost pile that was colonized with a worm population from my home worm farm. The pile gets fed the excess kitchen waste in addition to the garden waste. Compost from the pile, wormcastings from the home worm farm and some compost tea from a friend go onto the beds, mostly in with the seeds.
Last year I decided to stop using slug bait. Since we rent the place no other chemicals were ever used.
The land likes to grow plums and walnuts. We have blackthorn spreading on one side and maple in the back. And of course blackberries throughout. In the back of the garden there was a big oak tree, but it is pretty much dead now. I’m affraid I have killed it with the labyrinth that I have build around it one year. Since there is more light in the back now, I have set up a new, semi shaded, experimantal bed there.
My current focus is on broad beans and popcorn. I’ve had a good year of tomatoes, a good year of beans. I grew physalis, chillies, pumpkins, peas. With each year it get’s more difficult to remember all the past garden action hence this thread 
So far this season I have planted broad beans (already up!) and peas. Last two years were wet, this year it didn’t rain properly since mid February.
