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  1. Radish seeds we kept from last year. The husks were nice and dry and I crushed them to get the seeds out.

    It' is easy to winnow them by blowing over them gently, but it doesn't really matter when sowing and you can just throw the crushed husks on there with the seeds.

    #Gardening #Seedkeeping #Homesteading #Radish #Winnowing

  2. About a year ago I discovered recipes for homemade Hamburger Helper. We weren’t big fans of the box mixes but on busy days they did come in handy. I’ve tweaked these recipes a bit and they are now far better than the store bought mixes. The ingredients fit perfectly in a quart mason jar. allforgardening.com/1769990/ab #CountryLife #farming #gardening #homesteading #SelfSufficiency

  3. About a year ago I discovered recipes for homemade Hamburger Helper. We weren’t big fans of the box mixes but on busy days they did come in handy. I’ve tweaked these recipes a bit and they are now far better than the store bought mixes. The ingredients fit perfectly in a quart mason jar. allforgardening.com/1769990/ab #CountryLife #farming #gardening #homesteading #SelfSufficiency

  4. just about

    Just about her favorite thing is to
    
Unseal bright papery packets and
    
Set out flats of germination soil
    
The length of her bench, then scratch in parallel

    

Along each flat, with a stick, five lines for seeds.
    
By and by, the covered infant sprouts appear;
    
Or don't, in which case repeat until satisfactory.
    
Under her grow lights, not great ones, but good enough,
    
The seedlings make two leaves and then two more:

    

Here she makes more flats, with this time in
    
Each flat eighteen pots, filled with dampened
    
Rooting soil. A hole in each pot waits

    

For one tiny plant; the soil to be pressed
    
Around the taproot and tiny rootlets, then
    
Very gently watered -- from below, pouring
    
Over the flat's lip a tea of comfrey.
    
Really she overdoes it, making hundreds,
    
In every kind, of vegetable starts, far more
    
Than she can plant, but is fine with that; most
    
Everyone she knows will willingly give them homes.

    

That's her means, in old age, of making
    
Happen a kind of revolution. There are
    
In towers far away, those who would
    
Not have us eat what will not make them rich.
    
Go, little plants! Feed free souls free food.

    -- shonin #poetry #acrostic #gardening #homesteading

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