Here I open this message to share with you my landrace gardening seasons!
I would share on this topic the progress of my cultures, my current experiences, my failures, my harvests…
We are in the center of France, a place filled with meadows with a local race of cow la Charolaise.
we are in hills with small farms, houses, old villages scattered in the landscape with some small mountains in the distance. It’s all green with grass everywhere before becoming all yellow like the savannah from June.
the current garden is not very large but with the collective associative projects where we also grow, it is enough to feed ourselves in autonomy of vegetables.
here a part with black tarpaulin to warm the clay soil that remains cold for a long time in spring. At the bottom the structure to grow tomatoes in the shelter of the sun too strong in summer with climbing plants (kiwanos, Korila…)
here the part with the remaining winter crops (lettuce, leeks, swiss chard, fava beans…)
there some Chinese cabbage, arugula, fava beans and coriander at the bottom that are rising in seeds to ensure the succession of the next winter.
there some fava beans and lettuce on wood waste
there some winter seedlings of my lettuce grex which must have not far from 100 varieties with some first home hybridization. This year the grex will double with our exchanges at the seed bank, all seed shipments from GTS members… we should reach 200 strains ! + the fantastic Hakurei Salad Turnip just starting to come out
here the cold greenhouse corner cobbled together with old recovered window that allows to advance the seedlings and put out frost for the winter some plants. The most advanced tomatoes already transplanted, behind the fantastic Lokförare Bergfälts Jätteärt Snow Pea that I protect before going to the garden because it is a rare treasure of which I only had 10 seeds! behind a part of my nursery with not far from 50 species of oaks and 50 rare maples from around the world, with a lot of california and mexico shrubs that I grow before creating a future garden in our house under renovation.
some seedlings of swiss chard “Rainbow”
indoors in an old aquarium the last seedlings of pepper, eggplant, my landrace of basil (Mrihani x opal, basil grex Joseph Lofthouse, aromatic, rutgers obsession, genetic pool of Macedoine, little Marseille…), Wild Mountain Tomatillo Grex, and 60 tomatoes from all over the planet and from many people including GTS.
peppers and eggplants freshly transplanted that are still a little tired of the operation.
My Charolais Brionnais landrace with new varieties to add Dulce de España, Ferenc Tender, Lipstick, Rosy Cheeks, Rubiero… with other grex and landrace from USA Holy Italian and Mountain Roaster since Wild Mountain seeds and Lofthouse sweet pepper grex. For eggplant is Ping Tung Shaped Grex from Wild Mountain Seeds, an amazing thing that grows very well here without a greenhouse.
a harvest sample of my aragula landrace, which is composed of Purple Stemmed Rockette still from Wild Mountain Seeds USA with which I integrated seeds from a friend who found a foot resistant to insect beetles. Since these hybridization we eat every winter these beautiful varied plants that do not freeze and in addition no longer fear insect attacks during the dry autumn.
the pleasure to tell you the suite that will be more rock n roll and provided in chlorophyll !
! This also makes it possible to have well-implanted feet at the root level before the increasingly early heatwave periods (late May / early June).
and will be in the garden this summer to make the seeds: significant temperature difference between 15°c (59°F) (the days when we are not there without heating in the house) and 40°c (104°F), saturated humidity (vaporization + lid), transplanting in a cold greenhouse 20 days in April/ May, with nights at 8°c (46°F) and 35°c (95°F) in sunny day, then put in the garden at the end of May where sometimes there is also a large temperature difference between the roots in still cold soil 15°c (59°F) and sometimes 30°c (86°F) in the air.
) with all these regular thermal shocks but so I have mother feet that give me subsequent generations more and more tolerant with virtually no melting of seedlings or other diseases type late blight (I introduced varieties known for their resistance in grex).
in the plant !
, this landrace is the most amazing thing I’ve grown. These few pots will be used to try the feat of having 2 generations in the same summer to have the 2nd seeds in autumn in more difficult conditions, last summer I almost managed to 15 days ready.
, but I prefer the charm of your latest low tech DIY! I don’t wish to live in the past, but to respect the land at best so that our descendants can cultivate in a healthy soil without microparticles that poison their vegetables and bodies.
. There is a plant that is three times the size of the others, it smells good the very large super hybrid as I am looking for…
! and without protection we could with some happy births in the least to come… 
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It is the usual one, like parsley. I had many plants and I left them outdoors over the winter, and most of them were eaten by moles, but several survived and gave abundance of seeds. Their germination is great, so if anyone will need them, let me know. I have MORE 
They mostly germinate within 10-14 days.
