# Stéphane’s landrace garden in Brionnais, France
**URL:** https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356
**Category:** Adaptation Projects
**Tags:** breeding, europe
**Created:** [April 1, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356 "2024-04-01T17:01:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/21 "2024-05-23T18:11:52Z")
Beautiful work! Maybe too smooth?
Won’t a fierce rapid with a hammer not make a nice round hole sometimes? 1 in 3…Those drill bits don’t come cheap! Better buy a pvc tube cut a small bit and work it back up with chalk/sand mixed 1ch/3sand.
I rendered the wall and left their nests open.
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/22 "2024-05-24T17:19:09Z")
The beans are huge this year, the daily rain makes them giant!
we collect beans more than 30 cm long with 6 large grains in each… 💪
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/23 "2024-05-26T16:38:40Z")
pole beans tippie. 10 new varieties already (presented 13 april) who make promiscuity in a young oak for expecting crosses.
lofthouse Q series and Wilding panamorous tomatoes planted on the forest garden
seedling of melon grex de Thomas + mine (Farthest North Mix x heritage early grex). Some seeds of lofthouse moschata landrace mixed
a few eggplant grex plants added against a wall. Test with a rest of hemp straw to stick slugs
a row of fava bean picked up, shredded with planting the few tomato seedlings instead to enjoy nitrogen. With those 53 varieties planted this season.
9 feet of cherry tomatoes. This selection is among the best of the best :
Abracazebra, Black cherry, Red ruby, Dancing green fingers, Ambrosia giant cherry, Ambrosia gold cherry, Ambrosia orange cherry, Ambrosia red cherry and Tim’s taste of paradise
experimentation cauliflower flower under infusion of water at will… We will if it grows better than others
Buddleja hybridization session. Here Buddleja loricata from Mozambique, fluffy white leaf, discreet flowering but incredible scent of coconut. I hybridized with Buddleja globosa from Peru, Chili, Argentina (orange ball flower on the ground) and Buddleja x alternifolia ‘Unique’ from horticultural hybridation between China species and unknow (purple flower on the ground) to try to find a more beautiful flower level plant but with this awesome scent. the advantage also of hybridizations of buddleja are often a shift of blooms compared to parents with sometimes things shifted by 6 months (flowering late winters or autumn!) and sterility to calm the invasions of seedlings like Buddleja davidii which is an invasive in some area.
new red leafs of persistent oak Quercus polymorpha from Mexico
punk birds nesting in concrete walls, Cyanistes caeruleus on Acer rubescens from Taiwan
and small daily visit of a white stork Ciconia ciconia, in the meadow so beautiful of flower at this season.
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/24 "2024-06-03T17:18:26Z")
here for more than 15 days, it is cold with 15°C (59°F) and we no longer see the sun with rain every day. This is completely abnormal since we had to put the heating back in the house on June 2! a normal year we have 25°C (77°F) and last year we had over 35°C (95°F)… it’s time to climate’s collapse !
some garden crops are never so well grown, as for example potatoes
parsnips that are more than 2m high… there will be seeds friends !
the beans that reach 1.5m with crops that take us to overdose
The lettuce shines bright and fluo!
garlic finally likes the rain
the sweet pepper population offers a first fruit, very early despite the cold. The selection begins to bear fruit
Eggplants are attacked on all sides by slugs it’s hell for her !
first flower on potatoes and beans
the new grow magnificent from the rare maple Acer wilsonii
the other as pretty from the rare maple Acer tutcheri
new shoots on Poliothyrsis sinensis, a small tree great for pollinators with a late flowering in summer
spider on flower of Buddleja globosa
the very early flowering of this Nerium oleander , which comes from a natural region very high up on the Atlas. Very hardy never fear the cold, no leaf damaged in the winters while most Nerium sold in garden center die regularly in the gardens here
Carduelis carduelis on Acer discolor, a rare maple from asia that I have been introducing in the major nurseries of the country since 2 years
Merops apiaster the most beautiful bird that comes to us from Africa every summer… but here the guys are frozen and don’t move too much!
The positive side of this bad spring is a proliferation of flying insect, and therefore a lot of birds which is nice to see. 🐣
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/25 "2024-06-16T13:26:54Z")
the Painted Mountain corn that has just been planted with our association. The seeds will be used in a few years to sow a field the objective being to make in addition to our range a corn bread for people not tolerant to gluten.
winter squash Lofhtouse moschata and ‘Emerald Naked Seeded’ Pumpkin
the garden where nothing moves for lack of heat except beans that have never been so beautiful
at left winter squash Lofhtouse moschata, at right maxima ‘Desert Spirit Culinary Landrace’ and Gete Okosomin for crosses
tomatoes that start to flower late (we usually eat them on this date), and a few feet put under cover
celery in flower for seeds
beet in flower for seeds
harvesting and sorting of lamb’s lettuce seeds
in the forest garden onions and potatoes will make a nice harvest
beautiful flowers of various colors of TPS
Arbutus andrachne from Cyprus, the most beautiful bark tree at this time, the bark falls and reveals a pistachio green on a smooth trunk
Origanum ‘Kent Beauty’ (O. scabrum x O. rotundifolium) in flower
Origanum onites in flower, I hope some hybridizations
Stachys lanata is covered with pollinators
Papaver somniferum and the flight of the beetle of Oxythyrea funesta 🛫
and this morning big surprise on the roof Ciconia ciconia !
a varied garden that attracts more and more biodiversity ! 🙏
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### Author:  [@marcela\_v](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/marcela_v)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/26 "2024-06-16T14:38:03Z")
Amazing updates 🙂 I have a feeling so much is going on in everyone’s gardens that I am having difficulties keeping up with everything 😃
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2024, 10:33am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/27 "2024-06-30T10:33:54Z")
here again in a completely chaotic climate year! this week of the sun warm temperatures with levels of humidity worthy of tropical climate as this photo taken at 11 o’clock in the morning show 🥵… today at the same time it is 15°C and the fine rain it feels like London… 🥶
an ideal climate for beans unlike the classic years when it was too dry. 🙂
however I noticed burns from the sun, while we lack and the humidity is high…I think it is the alternation of rain and strong sun
salads can only be sown in places protected from slugs
after in the garden they are beautiful unlike eggplants which are microscopic and completely blocked…
zucchini are doing well as well…all vegetables that demand lots of water are beautiful this year, so we change diet this summer 2024 !
Among 50 varieties of tomatoes, the strangest is that this year the earliest comes from Palestine named El amar. a coincidence that reminds us that the bottom the news of the war puts in difficulty many populations.
harvest seeds from the rocket salad. Big quantities to be able to distribute this fall!
Kniphophia and budleja hybrid in bloom in harmony !
from the Arizona desert, a shrub that resists dry and does not seem to fear the abundant rain of the year either Mahonia fremontii ! Another plant for the future with blue leaf…
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### Author:  [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/28 "2024-06-30T20:04:53Z")
Awesome. What rocket salad you have?
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/29 "2024-06-30T20:45:02Z")
as you can see on my first post, 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.
A very good landrace, for eat all winter !
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### Author:  [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/30 "2024-07-01T05:12:58Z")
Stephane, i cannot remember from everybody what they did and said! Haha. I’m just a daft talker mate!
Do you mean flea beetle damage resistance? That’s interesting, but they’re not very active in winter.
I had a wintercrop and a springcrop of Poot his seeds, the wintercrop had no fleabeetles to speak of, the springcrop was not attractive to eat because of them, despite the cold and wet spring.
I have a perennial wild relative of the Arugula with yellow flowers, it starts to grow like mad when the arugula/rocket salad bolts. It’s taste is much more on the hot side and it suffers from this beetle, but it’s growth rate is so high the young ends are untouched and great for in salads year round. It lacks this crunchiness though…
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/31 "2024-07-01T07:05:37Z")
yes flea beetle damage resistance !
one plant in spring culture was intact while everything else was eaten. The neighbor kept the seeds, I am integrated a percentage in Purple Stemmed Rockette which is an already very variable and adaptive population with exceptional vigor.
certainly some nutritional benefits also with some antocyane 💜
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/32 "2024-07-03T16:29:58Z")
on the side of the associative group, small weeding session of the corn Painted Mountain. The field is beautiful, next year we should be able to have enough seed to fill it.
already the genetic diversity is expressed: purple feet, large or small… but the most spectacular will remain in the colors of seeds 🌈
winter squash Lofhtouse moschata and ‘Emerald Naked Seeded’ Pumpkin begin to bear fruit
yesterday also a fence was laid because the soybean was starting to suffer too much pressure from deer.
This soy and other fields serve us for the collective preparations of Tofu, Miso, Soyu sauce…
Used in our wheat rotation, this plant allows a very good human food supplement. We have chosen to have as cover crop only something to eat, to prove that regenerative agriculture is not sinonym of useless cultivation or feed for livestock… the farmers of the country have all told us that it will not work, we invite them today to eat our preparations during our events. 😛
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/33 "2024-07-06T16:58:25Z")
harvest of Lokförare Bergfälts Jätteärt beans. A surprise on a plant with black purple seeds, maybe an F2 hybrid?
harvest of fava beans grex with some very very large seeds.
beautiful harvest of garlic !
another direct seedling of winter squash Lofhtouse moschata in the forest. Only 4 survivor plant with a desired selection pressure on slugs.
it’s not a joke or a staging… I still wonder why these 4 plants are intact when dozens did not have time to see the light more than 24 hours
TPS continue to rise and bloom, but begin to turn yellow…
lofthouse Q series and Wilding panamorous tomatoes lack sun with this very stinky summer, and the trees of the forest that never had so much leaf…
we are still waiting for the return of the sun!
Beans are also struggling in the forest with lack of light but some varieties start to put flowers… will it cross ?
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/34 "2024-07-13T17:25:14Z")
tropical weather, giant bean leaf! 😮
transplanting of leek’s grex
parsley finally arrives, we will finally be able to cook it with beans 🧑🍳
pickles that make a lot of leaves this year
some beautiful color in the grex of chards
tomatoes are still growing, but with much delay on ripening…we are still waiting
some beauty of the collection, the tomato ‘Atomic Fusion’ which begins to show its blue colors
a small row of Painted Mountain corn that loves its new tropical climate with rain every 2 days ( 2 x 30 mm this week!)
chicory on left, carrot on right
salad grex ready to be transplanted tomorrow morning, we take advantage of the wet summer to continue seedlings that could not survive in a normal summer
morning weeding in the hundreds of pots of the nursery
place with a collection of oregano in bloom, this plant attracts a lot of pollinator insects during flowering which is good for biodiversity
Origanum majornan ssp tenuifolium (cyprus oregano), whether the soil is arid or wet it still has this aspect of suffering garrigue plant
Origanum tyttanthum (turkish oregano) with micro leaf
Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum (greek oregano)
this one is resowing everywhere, like the others precedents it is very aromatic and loves degraded and infertile soils.
He can still hope to reach the water table of the well which is 28m (92 feet)!
the oregano are all close here with a lot of species, probably 20… but I still have not found hybrids…it will be necessary to sow massively and search for the off type next year 😉
meanwhile the cat, makes a contest of the most incomfortable places to take a nap… 😆
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/35 "2024-07-17T16:44:05Z")
climbing bean crops, after green we eat purple !
pole bean landrace project on forest, the varieties are all mixing as they climb
sometimes yellow flowers,
sometime pink, purple…
first frutification, did they cross ?
at the end of the third year of cultivation, the TPS finally form the first fruits ! 🎉
a single genetic (the right row) bears fruit. Obviously the abundant rain, and this forest area was enough to start this new stage.
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/36 "2024-07-20T15:06:11Z")
After a hot week above 30°C, farmers took advantage of the weather to mow the prairies. Pollinators are found overday without food since wild cut flowers.
The gardens are there to take over but it takes a lot of flowers to feed everyone nectar and pollen. A small sound atmosphere of a summer day in a garden that takes care of pollinators. The noise is deafening but so pleasant. bzzzzzzz 🐝
a hybrid buddleja attracts varied butterflies, following only honeybees because of its shallower flower tubes.
the verveins, others come out of butterflies
oregano are the refuge of syrpheans…etc
For more crossing plants will receive massively insects! without them we will get nowhere because they are the best workers we can have
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### Author:  [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/37 "2024-07-20T18:09:29Z")
Beautiful pictures Stéphane. Thank you
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/38 "2024-07-20T18:19:00Z")
not obvious with strong lights and subjects excited by the meal 😅
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### Author:  [@stephane\_rave](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/stephane_rave)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/39 "2024-07-20T18:45:17Z")
you can get the sound of the insect gathering on the following video, MAKE SOME NOIIISEEEEE!! : 🐝
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### Author:  [@Lauren](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Lauren)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/stephane-s-landrace-garden-in-brionnais-france/2356/40 "2024-07-21T12:38:35Z")
My neighbors told me my property was a fire hazard, so I finally got a mower. All spring I’ve been mowing around the wildflowers, only mowing them after the seeds are ripe. Two sections I am deliberately leaving wild so the summer bloomers have a chance.
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