Better late then never. I was too late this year starting gardening into April because of a tour of Spain in which i visited some farms and exchanged seeds and tried to warm Spanish folks to the Adaptation Gardening idea. It was fun, but made me late,late,late and hurried, but things seem to turn out better than ever thanks to GTS and the European seed train and exchanges. Oh yeah, the weather was cold till very late, with very cold nights especially, but frequent rains. Also started a Telegram channel and we have some new people on board therefore. Busy,busy.
Nuff talk, pix.
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Parsnips i make them bare at the bottom. Grex of leeks, grex of cucumbers.
Wild leeks tasting of garlic flowering and attracting tons of insects, also makes bulbils.
Echinacea grex and others
Inula flowering, it’s seeds are spreading and taking hold here and there.
Oats, some grex of wilder varieties.
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Beans climbing into stuff is a thing for me this year, like here into parsnip. It just saves time making all these racks.
Grex of melons, furtest north and so on, thanks @JesseI , @stephane_rave , @Richard and others
Climbing beans into Corn
Climbing bean into prune tree
Sorgho grex
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you don’t burn 100 km further north? 
last night I did a nocturne at Garden 27°c at midnight !
everything looks super green, it’s great to see the beans set out to conquer space 
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Hi Stephane! Oh definitely hot, unseasonally hot even, since beginning of June or so! But we were very lucky with rains just when needed. Like every 9 days a big big shower, some cm’s of rain here, some cm of rain there. Except for upstarts i didn’t have to go out and water to save plants..
Most days i’ve been getting up early, like 5, just to get that morning coolness and work when the sun doesn’t sting. Then hide in the daytime during +30 C days.
It does make up for my plants not wanting to really get going with cold nights far into May. A night close to st Glace we’ve had frost, but still, a very good year for fruit and berries!
Tayberries.
NanKing cherry
Looking more like CostaRica than France halfway June. Now field are yellow.
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Wild leeks going to seed
Finally some decent Basil with vigor. Czech Grex Mrihani x Opal
Yellow spots getting randomish in this new generation.
@polarca send me discotaters, although they’re not the most colorful this kind, others might follow.
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spelt harvest, i ran it through my garden wood shredder, it seperates seeds and chaf nicely, 9 out of 10 seeds intact.
My cucumber grex is moving towards uniformity. They used to be much more spectacular. But i like they grow outside, just sprawling on the ground. I hope to get Sikkim vigor in there. Those where climbing shrubs and stuff, but they haven’t managed to manifest much.
A cucumber with a few spots of his mother, the Sikkim variety
Seed heads of Cardoon/Artichoke are best placed in water for a while to rot the heart, the hairs are easy removable and some are so happy to be on earth they sprout already, most seed just doesn’t immediately. I noticed it has excellent qualities of sprouting years later at where ever my potting soil appeared. I think i can go wild them soon. I have a Spanish one that managed to escape the gardens there and live without watering. Hope to cross that one back into the population so they can start growing and spreading without help….
Cardoon sprouts look like alfalfa
A nest of melons, a lot of variety, more pix later.
A Peruvian sunflower in the greenhouse. Checking it’s properties, might mix it in with the fatheads i grow for oil properties if it gives a lot of nice decent sized seeds.
Sunflower for beauty away from the fatheads. Maybe the bees will surprise me a bit with some pollen donation to and through, but i’m ok with that for now.
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so Hugo what’s new over there further north 
? are you starting to harvest seeds in beans, lettuce…. ?
my Mrihani x Opal died with the high temperatures, so I couldn’t make seeds and it was the last.
Have you reached this stage with the rain you had in the summer? If so, I am counting on you to be my official 2026 basil dealer !
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Hi Stephane. Thanks for asking!
Seed season is in full swing. Leeks, beans, lettuce , parsnips, walking onions, sunflower, melon and the basil did very well. It’s flowering now, so for sure i can get those to you. It’s all not as good as hoped, we were very lucky this year with frequent rains, but the last heatwave of tweo weeks with no rain has killed a lot of stuff or seeds just shrivelled. I ran out of water for the greenhouse and had to bring it in like you do. An IBC on a trailer. Luckily now it’s raining, but a lot of seeds just rot now, so i pick them before and a lot of drying is going on. I can’t say yet if seedwise it has been a good or bad season. But for fruit it was good.
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this feedback is so interesting because I’m not very far from your place, not having rain throughout the whole summer hardened my plants because during the last heat wave, the plants absolutely didn’t suffer even though it was the hottest with 41.7°c !
The plants suffered more at the beginning of July with 35/38°C because the UV levels were completely insane and with a small constant wind that burned the plants like an grill.
the plants do have a kind of memory that allows them to remember previous days… 
Great, we will exchange basilics seeds because I will still have seeds from my grex in 2025 
We will transport all this seeds to Croatia to do the biggest seed’s orgy
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Perennial Kale grex is starting to shape up nicely
All peachtrees are struggling under the weight of this years fruit, breaking branches etc.
Walking onions ready for transplanting
Melon’s worked very nicely.
using peach trees as windblock and future sunscreen for trees, these facing south..
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