Acer platanoides is one of my new trees in plot. I plant it at the middle of May and I am not sure if it will grow normally because maple trees need water and in the area of plot we don’t have so much water.

So you may ask why I plant this tree. The area has many pine trees, you can see conifers everywhere. Well ok not so many pines this moment because we had a big fire 3 years before but the fire stops 600m from my plot and didn’t burn the pines next to plot.
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Ok it’s official! I just found the first baby-tomato of the year and I have a big smile in my face.

The winner tomato plant is the heirloom variety “Bloody Red Butcher” and I grow it in a big container in my balcony.
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I was waiting this moment many months. I just collect my first Eruca sativa (rocket or arugula) seeds from the plant I grew in my city garden. I had the Eruca sativa plant in a big flowerpot from November.

The seeds I sowed were from one Greek NGO. They have a small seed bank and they send me free some seeds. But now I must save my seeds for the next years. My plant don’t have so many seeds, they send me 3 times more seeds than the seeds I save from my plant but it’s ok, it’s my first seeds anyway.
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Last night I start reading one interesting book of Suzanne Ashworth “Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
” where she had written in the first pages about the increase of biodiversity and heirloom varieties in the United States because of immigrants.

USA is known as a country of many immigrants. People from every corner of the earth moved in the great land of opportunities and continue to migrate until today.
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My “White Bush Scallop”or just Patty Pan Squash seedlings growing without problems. To be honest I am not sure when is the right month to sow these seeds because we don’t have this variety in my country. It’s something new for me.

Last year I was not so lucky with Patty Pan squash plants. I receive the seeds in June, I grow some plants in flowerpots, they give me many flowers the summer but no patty pans.I think I had only male flowers in my plants.
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