May Lotito

I tried different beans in the polyculture with corns.
1. Climbing indeterminate kidney beans + tall corns planted the same time in Mid April. More yard long beans planted later on.
2. Determinate edamame with short early corns.
3. Chickpeas as ground cover for late planted corns in hot weather.
They all work out fine except for short corns+ climbing beans. I just harvested some ears for sweet corns as the plants are swallowed by the vines.

I soak some chickpeas in water and puree with a blender, add small amount of sea salt, vt B12 and animal food grade DE/bentonite powder until it's pasty. I let it dry out further until I can mold it with a PVC pipe and push the plug out with a syringe plunger. Sun dry and they can be stored long term.

Molybdenum deficiency would be my first guess. Mo is partially mobile and it's getting localized to the seeds, causing older leaves to have irregular chlorosis. If so,  the new leaves will get smaller and paler and new pods having less seed filling progressively.  Plant might be less resistant to various stresses as well. If the bed received lots of high N fertilizer, it can make soil acidic and reduce molybdenum availability.  If your buddy wants to give it a try, he could gather >10x biomass of clover or other legumes, dry and burn to get the ashes. Drench soil around the bean with the ash water with a couple pills of vitamin B12 for cobalt.

Your lotus tubers are still young, they llook healthy, just need to build up more energy.  Some people would bury soybean meal at the bottom of the container as slow release fertilizer. If you want, you can make your own spikes with beans and bentonite and push them into the mud.

I broadcast indigo seeds in May and transplanted some as they are too crowded.  They are very easy to grow.
Lately the whirled milkweed and tall green milkweed are in bloom. They aren't showy but still beautiful.

Last 4 weeks had been too wet and I have fungal issues with my pear tree and elderberry. They are wilting and dropping leaves like crazy.

Could be. I had an outbreak of tussok caterpillars last year and they demolished the butterfly weeds in a short time.  Only one plant  back this year. The caterpillars come out at night and travel down to the soil and hide.  I find out keeping the soil on a leaner side makes wildflowers less attractive to pests. They don't need organic fertilizer or pee.

How about local farmer's market? If it's for producers only, i.e. no reselling, you will probably find unique produce that are not seen in conventional stores.

My lotus just flowered yesterday. Do you spot any flower bud yet? The Indian blood peach sapling is growing fast thanks to the wetter June this year. Elephant garlic each put out 6-10 corms at the base. Nice to speed up growing more Elephant garlic with corms.

Hi Konsta, I remember in one of the post you showed a picture of barren mountain with village in the foreground. Since Greece has a Mediterranean climate with wet and mild winter, why aren't grasses or shrubs growing back? The mountain looks far enough for sheep to go there and overgraze.

Sea water has high concentration of magnesium. If your land gets salt laden winds, there should have plenty of magnesium.  Do you have a picture of the plant?

I only grew a few Roma tomatoes before but here is what I noticed about their branching patterns: https://permies.com/t/178560/Rule-leaf-flower-ratio-tomato#1601164

"In the indeterminate beefsteak tomato plants, which fruit every three leaves on the main branch and new side shoots fruit after first five leaves then every three leaves after that. In the determinate type, those numbers were reduced to two, three and two respectively. Overall the plants are bushy with more branches and flowers, and the fruits will mature over a shorter period of time. "