PERMABREED

 Japanese medlar. A very beautiful and very useful tree. Now for the first time i have seen them in flower. They are flowering now. The flowers smell very nice and the bees and insects love them. I now know 4 flowering trees in the area. I hope i will be able to collect fruit and seeds in order to grow them from seeds. The only negative thing about this tree is that it's not well adapted to growing in brittany yet. I plan to change that by doing several mass sowings and planting them very close together in mini big forest style and harvesting and resowing directly the seeds of the first one that flowers. That way flowering should happen quicker and the tree will become better adapted to growing here. Japanese medlar flowering Fairly large plant about 5 meters tall

 Monkey puzzle. I found monkey puzzle pine nuts for the first time. I went to collect them under several different trees. There are slight differences in the size of the nuts. There is also differences in taste. Some tasted ok and some really nice raw. Fried in a pan makes them taste even better but if you leave them too long they turn hard. I didn't try boiling them in water yet. In the neighbouring village there is a huge female tree that the owner wants to chop down. I am personnally not at all worried about this tree becoming rare or extinct. In brittany alone there are hundreds if not thousands of monkey puzzle trees. Large tree nearby. Differences in size and appearance of araucaria araucana nuts

 Potato onion breeding. The onions didn't grow very well this year. It was too dry and i didn't have time to water them. A big surprise was the size of some of the green mountain x large onion plants. They all made white onions which unfortunately puts a huge question mark on to whether some crossing did happen. Some of the offspring should have not been white if the cross worked. The size of the largest white ones in itself at 5 and a half centimeters diameter is not very impressive but considering that all the other seed grown ones produced really small bulbs and that i harvested the white ones early when the leaves were still green their size is unusually big which makes me hope that i will find a good new variety next year.