Vegetable garden. I built a fence around my vegetable garden because we have so many deer here and we don't have a dog. Last year all beans and cabbage plants were eaten by deer. I used a mixture of chestnut poles and metal posts to hold the fence up. The fence is a 1.5 (5foot) meter high sheep fence. Deer can probably jump over this if they really want to but i hope it will discourage them. Someone told me you can also put down the compost from your dry toilet and this will repel dear because they don't like the smell of humans (haven't tried this yet) I am going to use the Ruth Stout method of gardening adding hay mulch to my beds every year. To kickstart things off i had a friend of mine rotovate the soil with his tractor, then i put down a thick layer of farm yard manure and lots of hay on top.
Malus sieversii. This is my little three coloured malus sieversii apple when it was young. Now i am trying to multiply it by approach grafting. The ornamental value of this tree is off the charts. Incredible leaf colours. This was at the end of last year. Now i am approach grafting it onto another apple rootstock. I did the grafting on the 6th of march and plan to cut them off on the 6th of june. In spring the leaves are green with a little red on the edges but each year they then display spectacular colours. The problem is the plant is not very vigourous and we don't know what the fruit will be like. Here you can see that the rootstock makes larger leaves than the three coloured apple. I found this individual in 428 seed-grown malus sieversii. Malus sieversii is incredibly diverse genetically as you can see in the next picture. These are malus sieversii seedlings displaying huge diversity.
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