Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed Catalogue The best way to sprout strawberry seeds / growing strawberries Neat way to grow strawberry plants from the seeds on the berries you buy from the store. Fragile come unarose shows how to take seeds from your strawberries that you are eating and sprout them and then transplant the little seedlings into a container till the are ready to go in to the garden. I like it, you won’t have to buy seed or starter plants again. photo credit Fragilecomeunarose Shallots, Lemon grass and Apple plants from seeds Great video from My inspired creation. She has bought shallots,lemongrass and saved some seeds from store bought red delicious apples and has now got all of them to root. Then she can transplant to the garden and grow her own . Pretty neat. I really didn’t think the seeds from apples would grow. photo credit My inspired creation
How to Save Your Seeds I think the practice of saving seeds is due for a revival. Seed saving is rewarding in so many ways. It’s very easy. If you find yourself smitten by it, there are ways you can get more expert about it. However, even a little seed saving is an empowering and powerful thing to do. Basics What you basically do when you save seeds is this: you go to the seeds when they are ready and get them; you make sure they’re really dry, and then you store them. It’s as simple as that but … Getting good seeds at the right time involves knowing the usual life cycle of a plant and whether a seed will stay true. You can gather them in different ways such as plucking, rubbing, shaking or grabbing. Making sure seeds are dry enough means having a good drying space for them. Storing seeds well involves having appropriate labels and containers for them. Plant Types and Specifics Plants are annual, biennial or perennial. ~Annual plants (such as lettuce and tomatoes) flower and mature seed in the same year. Lettuce Whew.
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Native Seeds/SEARCH - The Story of Glass Gem Corn: Beauty, History, and Hope If you’ve spent any time online recently, you might have noticed a striking photo making its rounds. Feast your eyes on Glass Gem corn: a stunning, multi-colored heirloom that has taken Facebook and the blogosphere by storm. With its opalescent kernels glimmering like rare jewels, it’s easy to see what the buzz is about. For the staff here at Native Seeds/SEARCH, the viral explosion of interest in Glass Gem has been thrilling—but not surprising. Like many heirloom treasures, Glass Gem corn has a name, a place, and a story. Approaching old age, Barnes bestowed his precious seed collection to Greg Schoen, his corn-breeding protégé. The story of Barnes, Schoen, and their remarkable corn is not unusual. The bounty of genetic diversity our ancestral farmers and gardeners created in this way was shared and handed down across generations. Though much of this diversity may be gone, all hope is not lost. To Purchase Glass Gem Seed: Many people have contacted us looking to obtain Glass Gem seed.
Plant Breeders Release First 'Open Source Seeds' : The Salt hide captionBackers of the new Open Source Seed Initiative will pass out 29 new varieties of 14 different crops, including broccoli, carrots and kale, on Thursday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Backers of the new Open Source Seed Initiative will pass out 29 new varieties of 14 different crops, including broccoli, carrots and kale, on Thursday. A group of scientists and food activists is launching a campaign Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They're releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new "open source pledge" that's intended to safeguard the ability of farmers, gardeners and plant breeders to share those seeds freely. It's inspired by the example of open source software, which is freely available for anyone to use but cannot legally be converted into anyone's proprietary product. Irwin Goldman, a vegetable breeder at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, helped organize the campaign. These days, seeds are intellectual property.
Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration & Ultimate Food Security Masanobu Fukuoka's first book, The One-Straw Revolution, introduced natural farming, a nature-integrated practice similar to 'original' permaculture, to a world where the environmental movement had just begun. As this plant pathologist-turned-farmer-philosopher journeyed around the world as a result of the popularity of his book and ideas, Fukuoka was shocked at the environmental degradation and desertification he saw. Sowing Seeds in the Desert, his final book, is his plan to set a 'Second Genesis' in motion: a green revolution led by vegetables, grasses, and trees. Natural farming isn't just another 'method' but rather a way of thinking and living that goes beyond even organic farming. By working in partnership with the natural world – examples such as using rivers and their tributaries as the basis for green corridors; planting poisonous plants to deter grazing; and using a diversity of trees and ground cover to stop erosion and build the soil – the results are truly sustainable.
The Art of Saving Heirloom Vegetable Seeds - Grow It! “At the time, I assumed everyone had grandparents who hoarded rare seeds, enjoyed food they grew themselves and dabbled in the kind of connoisseurship that comes from eating only what is fresh and local (especially your own). I was soon to learn that this was not the case and that what we had found in the freezer was a major collection of very rare seeds, very rare indeed.” This quote from William Woys Weaver’s Harvesting Our Heirloom History pinpoints the moment when heirloom seed preservation became his lifework. Weaver describes heirloom seed saving as the link to a rich horticultural and culinary heritage. Weaver’s book profiles 280 heirloom varieties, with authoritative growing advice and incredible recipes. First published in 1997, Heirloom Vegetable Gardening has since gone out of print, with used copies selling online for as much as $300. Weaver’s family heirlooms have been hand-selected and saved over time in a relationship between plant and gardener.
Guide to Saving Herb Seeds For related articles and more information, please visit OCA's Organic Transitions page. While I have been a gardener for nearly thirty years, only recently have I begun saving seeds from my garden with any seriousness. It always seemed a bit daunting and mysterious, and for many years I didn't think much about where the seeds came from. Then, I started getting seeds from other gardeners and began to learn more about harvesting, storing, and sharing seeds. I still consider myself somewhat of a beginner, but as each year passes, my confidence grows and I learn more about the best time to collect seeds, as well as new ways to dry and store them. How to collect and save those precious seeds.. 1. 2. 3. 4.
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Healthy News and Information If you’re looking for an easier way to plant your seeds evenly without spending the time in the springtime dropping them into the soil one by one you’re going to love this trick. The best part is that you can get all the prep work out of the way when you’re eager to garden before it warms up outside. Keep in mind that this is only ideal for plants that you will be directly sowing so if you live in a cold climate and need to start seeds early, you may want to check out: How to Make Transplant Pots for Free and: How to Build a Soil Block Maker for Free. This row spacing trick is very simple. Step 1:Tear some 1 inch wide strips of newspaper. Step 2: Mix the flour with enough water to make a thick paste. Step 4:Place a dollop of paste over each seed. Step 5: Allow the paste to dry. Step 6: When the paste dries completely, store your perfectly spaced seed strips in a paper bag until you are ready to plant. Plant! See! Share: Comments comments
Seed saving: a great idea, and now's the time to start thinking about it -Low impact living info, training, products & services One of the pleasures of autumn is gathering seeds. It’s a hopeful optimistic act that conjures up thoughts of the next spring, and by and large it’s pretty simple act. For most vegetables, all that is needed is for the fruit to be left on the plant until it’s overripe, and for the seed to be then cleaned and dried. For some seeds though there are a few challenges, not least of which is trying to produce a child which resembles the parent! Beans Beans are the easiest seeds to collect. Cabbages Cabbage seed is more difficult to collect as different members of the same cabbage family (for example broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and cabbage) will cross-pollinate, so for the seed to grow ‘true’ to its parents it needs to be isolated. Cucumber I have had quite a lot of success with saving cucumber seed. Lettuce Lettuce is generally self-pollinating, so there is little chance of cross-pollination. Hazel Parsley Sweetcorn Squashes Tomatoes