2023-06-23 18:40:41
Pößneck (Thuringia) – From the pear to the bed, from the beet to the beets! “Möhrchen-Patrick”, the man with Germany’s thickest vegetables in the garden, parted with his thick mane. And now fertilizes kohlrabi, turnips and beetroot with his hair.
As every year, “Möhrchen-Patrick” Teichmann (31) let his hair grow over the winter months. Now it went to the hairdresser, he lost 15 centimeters. But the head of hair did not end up in the garbage, but in his garden in Pößneck in the Saale-Orla district. “I use the hair as organic fertilizer,” explains the giant vegetable grower. “The rest is nesting material for the birds.”
“My organic fertilizer grows upside down”
In addition to his hair fertilizer, he also uses the legacies of chickens, penguins and even elephants to grow his XXL vegetables.
“Möhrchen-Patrick” during the allotment shoot for the TV station “Kabel 1”
Photo: Private
On Sunday (6.10 p.m., Kabel 1) you can watch Möhrchen-Patrick gardening. In the docu-soap “Die Schrebergärtner: Sowing, mowing and trophies”, the Thuringian fights against the Ösi pumpkin giant Friedrich Melka (53) in the giant vegetable weighing championship. The Austrian made headlines last year with his 663.9 kilogram record pumpkin and is “Carrot Patrick’s” fearful opponent. In addition, the Thuringian XXL gardener was unlucky recently: shortly before the TV finale, the 2.15 meter long root of his beetroot simply broke off…
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Hobby gardener Patrick Teichmann has been growing XXL vegetables in his garden in Pößneck since 2012. In 2020, the German record institute counted 33 varieties on site. With his records, he made it into the media worldwide, and BILD was the first to give him the nickname “Carrot Patrick”.
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