A bit afraid that both the the slicer cukes and much of the maxima tasty mix may come from me this time because when the box reached me there was neither of those and I added them, …unless Finland right after me added some. So I wonder how they will do for you. Completely different climate. Couldn’t be more different. But fast they will be for sure!
we will see! Cucumbers and maximas are normally done by july in my climate, so if they will produce before they’ll be winners!
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are the winter pepos also from you? The “carrots”?
Also the slicers grew in a mixed patch, but the parents are slicers so I added that separately.
Slicers are generally slower than pickling cukes, prob due to fruit size, and also have much fewer seeds, so any that gave me seed I was able to share is fast af by definition.
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I packed summer pepo that turn orange and sweet in storage, and double as winter pepo. Project is converging, but not quite there yet. Possibly from me, yes.
This is the downside of how we merge seed bags into one. You loose track. I added stuff w massive, detailed labeling but separately on top of the pack due to both lack of time and because it was convenient for both Matt and Roosa to take ”Northern” seeds and know that they are Northern. I asked them to merge it down downstream. So they likely got relabeled. But I find it very unlikely that Finland added cukes after me, especially slicers, also because Matt had explicitly asked me to add cukes. There was also no maxima whatsoever in the box I received, so if Matt didn’t add any then the entire grex is from me.
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Great for me, I saw the level of diversity you were growing, so there should be a chance for me to at least get seeds to replant next year.
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I’ll be following tour thread with even greater than normal interest. Of course I want to know if ”Northern” just means so robust and diverse that it can de well even in Mallorca. Like tepary beans are usually grown in hot and arid climates but there is research documenting extreme cold tolerance as well. So, at least for some crops, extreme tolerance in one direction often (but not always) means extreme environmental tolerance in whatever direction outside the normal range.
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I’ll make sure to take lots of photos during the growing season.
Were the runner beans also from you?
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Great!
They were gorgeous!
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This one is from @Bruno, good taste, selected over years for thin skin + long conservation.
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What does it look like and how big does it get? Just so I can recognise it in the mix.
I found some seeds called Mixta in the box that I think were from you, is that correct?
Mixtas can’t be mine. Maybe @Hugo’s
Big maxima, oval shaped, orange only
@Bruno can you tell us more about it?
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A little homegarden tour with rucula and beetroot from @stephane_rave, perennial sorghum and leeks in trays, a fluffy catflower, @polarca’s runner beans just planted and a box of starts from the serendipity box - mostly the winter leeks and other alliums plus various rumex for some perennial spinach
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Great to see my seeds already germinated in your garden ! 
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One of the many apple frankentrees. This one just received the varieties Musketeer, Appleoosa, VIP by Freddie Menge, Pinker lady, Clarion, Hellakitty, Black & Red and January russet.
Hope they all take:crossed_fingers:
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Garden diary days 210 & 211
Wow, the rainy month made all the weeds grow taller than me! so for once, I will have to do some actual weeding if I want food from the garden. I started on a few rows by cutting down the tall weeds in the paths with my Japanese hand sicle and used the weeds to mulch the trees, onions and potatoes. The sicle makes this process really fast. The cool thing about the giant weeds, is that I’ll need no compost or mulch material from outside the garden this year, I have it all ready to chop and drop.
I planted 4 varietiea of blight resistant potatoes, way too late but that’s the problem of sourcing potatoes from Northern europe, they never arrive on the ideal planting time here which is february. I’m hoping the resistance will ensure some seed potatoes for next sowing at least.
In the dry bean row, I planted air potatoes, as they wont start to take off until the beans have dried down in summer, taking full advantage of the space and the fact that I will only have to build one trellis.
I think I have 3 or 4 varieties of air potatoes in the mix, they are tough to tell apart without tasting them, except for thr Brasilian one, which has silver skin and lilac coloured flesh.
I also planted some parsnip roots, beetroot, mangelwurzel beet, orach mix and salad burnet.
The mulberries are growing like crazy, 3 of them were just small sticks last year and they are loaded with fruit! It also looks like I’ll be getting quince and apricot-plums this year. Any tips for avoiding worms in the quince will be appreciated🙏🏽
I’m super impressed with the fruity, yellow perfume chili by @camillaplum, all of them survived the winter and the ones covered in weeds are actually fruiting now! The okinawa spinach and longevity spinach are also turning out to be reliably perennial. It also looks like two of the weed covered cassavas survived, which is exiting!
Garden harvest:
4kg fresh fava beans
200g wild chard
2kg broccolish
500g onions
2kg cardoon
200g kumquats(ish)
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Garden diary day 212 - tomatoes!
With this sprained ankle, I’m horribly behind on planting (and weeding), so today I had some help building the tomato and cucumber trellis.
I managed to plant more or less all the tomatoes, and limited myself to just three thirds of a row. A cared for row produces more than two necklected I discovered last year😅
In part of the tomato row, I planted white and purple yams, Dioscorea alata, in the center. They won’t take off until july when the tomatoes are pretty much done anyway.
One of the other gardeners came over with a tray of sword bean seedlings of some beans he stole from my garden last year😂 I planted them along the feet of the trellis. So at least if the tomatoes fail, I’ll have yams and sword beans.
In the last third end of the row, I planted mixed cucumber melons and cucumbers from @ThomasPicard , and some dosakai x heirloom melon from @ShaneS
I also planted a gooseberry shrub and a lilac cutting from my moms garden, plus a few very red rhubarbs my dad and I got when picking up apple root stock. I finally found the trick to growing rhubarb sucessfully here - full sunlight and enough water during summer, then it handles the heat with no problem. So naturally, I will be planting some more varieties this year.
Last year I ate some delicious Mallorquin peaches, and one of the pits sprouted into a healthy seedling, which got a spot in the kaki, grape and sea buckthorn row. I noticed some the chestnuts from the supermarket, that I dotted around the garden have come up too.
The edible canna hybrids from @ShaneS are already flowering again and apparently vila vila berries survive the winter here perfectly. Look at these beautiful flowers on very thorny plants. I didn’t remember them producing any berries in this location here last year, but it looks like I’ll get to try them very soon.
I sprinkled some green fleshed pumpkin seeds of my saved seed plus some from @beany.things around, along with @ThomasPicard’s seeds of hybrids between moschata and maxima squash. This should be interesting!
Garden harvest:
2kg artichokes
1kg cardoon
2kg kale
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Garden diary day 213 - amazing helpers from the goingtoseed community - @aleba @Shao and @Richard
We cleaned a row of 1.5 meter tall weeds to plant mixed curcubits. Different green fleshed moschata squash, a delicious black striped moschata that appeared last year, lots of different moschata x maxima seeds from @ThomasPicard , ash gourd, edible bottle gourd grex and some mallorcan shark fin squash.
So happy to have the most important curcubits planted😍
Next in line are sorghum, melons, watermelons, burr gherkins, kiwano melons and a handful of new to me cucumber like fruits.
The beautiful salad row is all from @stephane_rave
Garden harvest:
500g broccoli shoots
500g elephant garlic scapes
1kg artichokes
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