#savingseeds — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #savingseeds, aggregated by home.social.
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Oh. Duh.
I guess that's why there's a seed bank in the ✌🏾"anarchist office"✌🏾.It's not just to tempt me mercilessly every time I have to come by.
I was starting to feel like someone needed to put NO GIGI ALLOWED on every drawer.
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Seed Organization And Storage Tips
https://growinginthegarden.com/seed-storage-organization-tips/#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #Seed #SeedHarvesting #SeedStorage #Seeds #SeedSaving #SavingSeeds
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A step-by-step guide to #SavingSeeds
by Maud Powell, March 2010
"Summer and autumn are the seasons when many gardeners and farmers are out in their fields collecting vegetable, fruit and flower seeds for the next season. Seed saving is an excellent way to engage in the worldwide movement to preserve some of the older 'heirloom' varieties of seed.
"During the past two decades, many seed companies have consolidated, and regulations regarding the patenting of seed varieties have been loosened. As a result, seed companies routinely drop older varieties for newer ones, which are usually hybridized and/or patented.
"Organized grassroots #SeedSaving efforts, as well as inspired gardeners and farmers, have done an excellent job of saving many heirloom varieties.
"Seed saving is also a great way to develop seed lines that are well adapted to a particular environment. Saving seed from the healthiest plants year after year enables growers to select for traits that are most suitable for their growing conditions.
"Finally, seed saving encourages a deeper understanding of the life cycle of plants. We rarely see certain vegetable plants, such as lettuce, onions and carrots, in the reproductive stage of their lives. Saving seed provides growers with an education in plant genetics and breeding, which is usually left to universities and seed companies. Following are the four basic steps to saving seed."
Read more:
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/flowers-shrubs-trees/step-step-guide-saving-seedsEspañol version:
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/es/gardening/flowers-shrubs-trees/step-step-guide-saving-seeds#SolarPunkSunday #HarvestTime #Harvesting #SeedSavers #FoodSecurity #GrowYourOwn #SeedExchange #SharingEconomy #OSUExtensionService #OregonStateUniversity #HierloomSeeds
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The Svalbard Seed Vault in northern Norway is an important safeguard for plants and the agriculture and ecosystems they support against rising climate stress. But - the archaeological sites in melting permafrost across the Arctic cannot all be put in a vault, nor are there secure safeguards for the culture and knowledge linked to the vaulted seeds.
I jump up and down about this in Micro-Climate Blog #26.
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Right now it’s hard for me to imagine the future, partly because it’s so dark, and partly because just wtf!
Yesterday I composted a bunch of plants from the garden and saved seeds to maybe help make a possible future I can’t see right now …
Four kinds of beans and peppers, radishes, and fennel.
More info in the alt-text.
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It's #SeedTapping / #SeedsCollecting time. My #liatris & #zinnias have gone to seed. I'm collecting their #seeds to save, to share & to plant next year, in new spots around the backyard.
#Gardeners #Saanich #Zone8 #VictoriaBC #SeedSavers #FlowerSeeds #perennials #SeedSaving #bloomscrolling #SavingSeeds #garden #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest
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I don't grow vegetables at a high enough volume for #SavingSeeds but my local library started a seed program and it has nothing right now. I'm confused by the resources out there- about only heirlooms are good, which are sterile, etc. If you have a site or info to share, I'd appreciate it. #gardening #GrowYourOwn
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What weird things are you doing in the middle of the night tonight, Gigi?
Sifting sand. I need sterile sand for storing my seed potatoes over the winter.
First I baked it at 325° for 2 hours to steam off any water in it and kill anything that might be living in it, and then I sifted it through the mesh screening that I actually bought for my Ikea drainage holder wood stove/firepit as a spark arrestor.
Did I have to do this in the middle of the night? No. But I was working on something until late and still wasn't ready to go to sleep.
I am now though.
Good night! -
Used 2 yellow cherry tomatoes to save the seeds for future.
Used my well tested method of using a paper towel and place the seeds 1cm from each other to dry them out and save them later in a Ziploc bag when they are completely dry..
Will label it with type and date so I can track them.
#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #France #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #Tomatoes #SavingSeeds #CherryTomatoes