Hel­ge Masch is an expe­ri­en­ced gar­de­ner with a pas­si­on for pho­to­gra­phy. As direc­tor of the spe­cial bota­ni­cal gar­den in Ham­burg-Wands­bek, he offers gui­ded tours and gives lec­tures the­re and throug­hout Ger­ma­ny. He also offers staff trai­ning cour­ses for gar­den offices. For 5 years, he was on the Ham­burg regio­nal radio sta­ti­on NDR 90.3 as a “radio gar­de­ner” and ans­we­red lis­ten­ers’ gar­den and plant ques­ti­ons in the month­ly live broad­cast. The ama­teur pho­to­grapher offers pho­to­gra­phy cour­ses.

Con­tent of the lec­tu­re:

Nati­ve wild plants are ide­al for an insect-fri­end­ly bal­c­o­ny. Hel­ge Masch has grown mil­li­ons of young plants for the spe­cial bota­ni­cal gar­den in Ham­burg-Wands­bek and other public are­as in Ham­burg. “Sowing and then what?” deals with basic thoughts on sowing, becau­se the tech­ni­que of sowing on the win­dows­ill or in the green­house is no dif­fe­rent from the later use of the plants. We will look at light ger­mi­na­tors, cold ger­mi­na­tors, cold ger­mi­na­tors and “nor­ma­los”. In the second part, Hel­ge descri­bes how to prick out so that the seed­lings don’t fall over! And, of cour­se, he also dis­cus­ses seed har­ve­s­t­ing.