@julia.dakin It was nice to see this bean in your population. It has died out of mine, along with the black/white orca beans.
Here’s what my beans are looking like this year. Sorted for replanting, so that I hold on to as much diversity as possible.
And the bulk beans, as they came out of the field. A number of other varieties disappeared, but new varieties are showing up.
Wow that big green one in the middle looks amazing! Also nearly the shape of a darbuka! I would love to see any instruments that you have made from any of your gourds.
This is the corn we got this year. We had better luck with other crops but this is one of my proudest yields of the last season. Our first year growing corn, we did three sisters intercropping in tired raised beds on their third season of the same original inputs and no cover.
We did do a little bit of Neptune’s Harvest for these guys since the seed came from from a commercial pumpkin patch and I thought they might be used to fertilizer.
These corn plants grew fantastic though. Had it not been for a storm flattening them I expect we would have done much better. I harvested these ears in the sprawling remains of the corn weeks after the storm (though it would have probably been better for the other plants, I didn’t have the heart to clear out the fallen corn plants). Presumably viable seed means the story can continue!
I have been selecting this bok choi for winter hardiness in an unheated greenhouse. It is very sweet. The stem texture was granular from freezing so often.
I haven’t threshed mine yet this year. I’ll send a photo when I have. But here is a photo of the chickpeas I threshed this week to compensate
Oh wow! I can see how you kept opening them to see what was in there. I felt that way with my corn, this year. They’re beautiful. What were your dtm, roughly?
Thanks! For the DTM, i’m truly not sure. Planted in First days of April and harvested progressively through the summer. Around 100 days probably.
A summary of my 2022 in the garden, month by month - photos combined into one slide show.
Amazing on so many levels.
Are you growing hops for beer?
If I share all my google photo accounts can you make one of these for me?
Yeah, that was beautifully made! Maybe I should try to document my garden this year as thoroughly as you did.
That’s such a beautiful video! your harvest looks amazing! congratulations for your work.
@julia.dakin Do you mean making such video for you? Yes, of course, but it would be better if you choose 5-10 pictures for each month yourself, then I can put it together. It would have your personal touch then, rather than just my choice of pictures. This way or another, please get in touch, I will gladly help.
@julia.dakin I was planning to start making beer, but too many projects at the moment, no time to start a new one. Therefore I’m using hops as a herb only.
If you move the photos you want included into an album, the three-dots in the upper right when looking at the album includes the option to make a slideshow of the whole album. Without making an album, you can select several images from your bulk photos and then make an ‘animation’ in the same way.
It’s a stunning compilation Wojciech. Such beauty, and love for photography, nature and your land shines through.
Thanks Morvan, I am documenting my garden adventures mostly to show people that it is possible to grow own food even in very difficult conditions. I make 1200 - 1500 photos per year, and I have found that the most valuable thing is to compare same place “before” and “after”. This shows how big is our influence on our surroundings, nature and life. It is almost unbelievable how we can change our land in 5 or 10 years 
You can also notice how technology have changed … 
So much pumpkin! 
Those are gorgeous! I’m trying the green fleshed ones too next season, can’t wait! Beautiful place you’re in! Thanks for sharing.
I really like them! Give them lots of space, they crawl everywhere.
And thank you, it’s a plot I’m renting in a community garden.
