Mikkels Garden And Some Minor Experiments

[imgrimmer]

Finally I decided to post some pictures of my garden and projects/experiments I made over the time.

Some volunteers tomato seedlings it should be the 3rd year now.

Tomate volunteers 3te generation by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

a volunteer pole bean seedling survived a light radiation frost last years seedlings were damaged by frost. progress?

Selbstsaatbohne Nachtfrost überstanden by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Trachycarpus seedling. One of thousands. This one was completely frosted with more than -10°C while completely waterlogged. Sister and brothers beside are mostly dead.

Tomate volunteers by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Trachycarpus seedling survived in open ground. Beside feral potatoes.

freilandtrachy min -10°C überstanden by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

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this might be a gladiolus seedling but could be a clone as well.

gladiolus seedling or clone? by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Some Dahlia volunteers from the last year. They get frosted and died this winter. I hope for new volunteers but to be sure I saved seeds of it.

Foto am 14.05.17 um 12.39 by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

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a frozen Citrumelo probably dead at -10°C or a little bit more.
behind it Passiflora caerulea and Ruscus aculeatus

erfrorene Citrumelo by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

[richardw]

May 8, 2018 3:08:53 GMT -5 imgrimmer said:

this might be a gladiolus seedling but could be a clone as well.

gladiolus seedling or clone? by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

That is a bulb coming up, last summers seedling maybe?

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might be. I sowed the seeds everywhere. I think it is probably not a clone because there is no mother bulb around.

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Some older pictures of some projects

My goal is direct seeding for every vegetable. I started with many varieties and planted them as very small seedlings. Only covered with fleece in the first year. Took seed of the earliest fruits.
In tomatoes I select for late blight tolerance.

Eggplant trial in open field condition. Seedlings were only 5cm when planted.

eggplant trial by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

and the offspring 2 years later. Probably Verticillum infected but it survived. All plants gave very bad seeds. Nearly all were deaf. So I lost this strain.

eggplant trial F2 by vorname nachname, auf Flickr


Tomato trial. sandy soil no fertilizer and watering.

Tomato late blight trial by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

My mostly late blight tolerant tomato strain in 2014

late blight tolerant tomato strain by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Sweet Pepper Trial

sweet pepper trial by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Sweet Pepper Harvest

Sweet pepper trial. Harvest by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

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Okra and peanut trial

both struggle to survive. so I could interplanted them. In warmer climates not a good combination I guess.
Okra and peanut trial by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Dahlia seedling trial

Dahlia seedlings trial by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Sweet Corn

Sweet Corn by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Racoons like corn

Racoons Like Corn Too by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

my all time one and only armenian cucumber. No seeds....

My all time one and only armenian cucumber by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

sisymbrifolium with open calyx

sisymbrifolium with open calyx by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

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Mountain Magic F1 Tomato
real late blight tolerance in 2016. Only single small infections on some leaves.

It survived and gave fruits until frost.

Mountain Magic F1 real late blight resistence by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

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Poncirus trial
Poncirus trial by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Basil trial

Basil trial by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

Mixed crops

Mixed crops by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

A very interesting observation. Tomatoes protect Asparagus aginst asparagus beetles.

Asparagus and tomato - bug prevention by vorname nachname, auf Flickr

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Ferdzy`s water melon

Untitled by hebamme.lena, on Flickr

A basil volunteer

basil2 by hebamme.lena, on Flickr

And Citrus this one is a 2 year seedling of Ichang papeda with its first flower.

Foto am 15.06.17 um 15.59 by hebamme.lena, on Flickr

[ferdzy]

Nice photos! Really happy to see "my" watermelon, looking like a watermelon.

You have raccoons!?

[imgrimmer]

it was my first real ripe watermelon. what should it have looked like instead? ?)
yes racoons spread year by year further north and west. Recently I saw one dead by the road. It is quite common here since some years.
Also marten dogs are spreading and there are wolfs again in my area since some years.
It is getting wilder again...

[ferdzy]

It looks good!

I'm surprised about the raccoons. I thought they were strictly North American. I suppose some idiot let some loose. They get hit by cars here a lot, much more than other animals except skunks. Skunks are convinced it's YOUR job to get out of their way, so that's understandable. We hit a raccoon once. It was at night and it was like someone throwing themselves in front of a train - no way we could miss. I think it saw the light on the road (from our headlights) and thought, "good time to cross - I can see!" Wrong.

Interesting it is getting more wild. Fewer farmers and more urban dwellers?

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May 10, 2018 7:50:21 GMT -5 ferdzy said:

I think it saw the light on the road (from our headlights) and thought, "good time to cross - I can see!" Wrong.

May 10, 2018 7:50:21 GMT -5 ferdzy said:

Interesting it is getting more wild. Fewer farmers and more urban dwellers?

racoons were set free around 80 years ago but really start to spread only in the last decades. the same with marten dog. they were introduced to the european part of russia for hunting and spread since then westwards. wolves came from Poland only in the last 15 years. there are some around my town since some years. young ones walk for long distances and reached already Denmark. I guess it is all about less hunting pressure in the east since communist times. In Germany wolves are protected by law. environment hasn`t changed that much.

quite interesting that there are feral Nandus around 100km from here too.

www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/tierische-einwanderer-nandus-breiten-sich-in-mecklenburg-vorpommern-aus-a-1001114.html

www.svz.de/regionales/mecklenburg-vorpommern/europas-einzige-wilde-nandu-population-schrumpft-id19545891.html?nojs=true

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Wow I didn't know about raccoons in Europe. But they are the #1 reason I hadn't planted corn for the last few years. I'd love to get back to my corn and Teosinte projects but I just can't fight the raccoons right now. I either need a high closed off fence or a low budget motion detector hacked into a strobe light.

I knew raccoons are a highly invasive species in Japan being released in the 80s or 90s because of a children's Japanese cartoon where raccoons were a cute lovable pet and at the end of the cartoon they were released into the wild to be free. Stupid. Cause people imitated the cartoon.

Raccoons are so terrible. But what do you do. I had a great time in my environmental ethics class this semester. It was fun thinking about whether all plants and animals have a right to exist, whether all species are equal or not (have equal moral standing similar to legal standing), and other topics like human overpopulation.