#seeds — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #seeds, aggregated by home.social.
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Colorado gardening: A beginner-friendly, year-round planting calendar https://www.allforgardening.com/1939137/colorado-gardening-a-beginner-friendly-year-round-planting-calendar/ #BettyCahill #colorado #denver #entertainment #fall #gardening #GardeningColorado #Home&Garden #LatestHeadlines #Lifestyle #PunchList #seeds #ThingsToDo #water
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Colorado gardening: A beginner-friendly, year-round planting calendar https://www.allforgardening.com/1939137/colorado-gardening-a-beginner-friendly-year-round-planting-calendar/ #BettyCahill #colorado #denver #entertainment #fall #gardening #GardeningColorado #Home&Garden #LatestHeadlines #Lifestyle #PunchList #seeds #ThingsToDo #water
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So the Colorado sun is trying to murder your plants. What can you do about it? – The Denver Post https://www.allforgardening.com/1939115/so-the-colorado-sun-is-trying-to-murder-your-plants-what-can-you-do-about-it-the-denver-post/ #Climate #colorado #drought #flowers #gardening #GardeningColorado #Home&Garden #LatestHeadlines #PunchList #seeds #ThingsToDo #water #Wind
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So the Colorado sun is trying to murder your plants. What can you do about it? – The Denver Post https://www.allforgardening.com/1939115/so-the-colorado-sun-is-trying-to-murder-your-plants-what-can-you-do-about-it-the-denver-post/ #Climate #colorado #drought #flowers #gardening #GardeningColorado #Home&Garden #LatestHeadlines #PunchList #seeds #ThingsToDo #water #Wind
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Free seed sowing and transplanting classes in Central Oregon | Local News https://www.allforgardening.com/1937476/free-seed-sowing-and-transplanting-classes-in-central-oregon-local-news/ #CentralOregon #gardening #GardeningOregon #oregon #PlantReproduction #seeds
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Free seed sowing and transplanting classes in Central Oregon | Local News https://www.allforgardening.com/1937476/free-seed-sowing-and-transplanting-classes-in-central-oregon-local-news/ #CentralOregon #gardening #GardeningOregon #oregon #PlantReproduction #seeds
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Nasa scientists grew corn seeds in space and found something strange: How microgravity confused roots & shoots that normally know exactly which way to grow
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=nasa-scientists-grew-corn-seeds-in-space-and-found-something-strange-how-microgravity-confused-roots-shoots-that-normally-know-exactly-which-way-to-grow
Breaking: <p>Nasa scientists grew corn seeds in space
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How to read seed packets before you buy https://www.allforgardening.com/1937319/how-to-read-seed-packets-before-you-buy/ #gardening #GardeningOregon #oregon #seeds #SpecialtySeeds #vegetables
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How to read seed packets before you buy https://www.allforgardening.com/1937319/how-to-read-seed-packets-before-you-buy/ #gardening #GardeningOregon #oregon #seeds #SpecialtySeeds #vegetables
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Gardening guide for lawn plant care in the hot summer https://www.allforgardening.com/1937242/gardening-guide-for-lawn-plant-care-in-the-hot-summer/ #BettyCahill #Climate #colorado #compost #conservation #drought #gardening #GardeningColorado #Home&Garden #HowTo #LatestHeadlines #PunchList #seeds #ThingsToDo
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Gardening guide for lawn plant care in the hot summer https://www.allforgardening.com/1937242/gardening-guide-for-lawn-plant-care-in-the-hot-summer/ #BettyCahill #Climate #colorado #compost #conservation #drought #gardening #GardeningColorado #Home&Garden #HowTo #LatestHeadlines #PunchList #seeds #ThingsToDo
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Postma preps her pocket-sized garden | Sioux Center News https://www.allforgardening.com/1936451/postma-preps-her-pocket-sized-garden-sioux-center-news/ #flowers #garden #GardeningIowa #Iowa #RachelPostma #seeds #SiouxCenter
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Ich freu mich, das ostindische Zitronengras Cymbopogon flexuosus ist schnell aufgegangen.
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A still shot of my gorgeous beetroot seeds 😍
I love seed photos. I love seeds. I love photography. Great, when both lifelong passions are combined.My amazing #beetroot #seeds.
Tapped & saved from excellent mother plants. Watch/listen to video about the mother plants that I harvested these strong seeds from ✌️💚👩🌾#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #beet
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My amazing #beetroot #seeds.
Tapped & saved from excellent mother plants. Watch/listen to video about the mother plants that I harvested these strong seeds from ✌️💚👩🌾#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #beet
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dandelion seeds waiting
a dandelion seed head suggests the idea of impermanence.
#photography #photo #naturephotography #nature #autumn #fall #flowers #dendelion #dandelion #bnw #blackandwhite #monochrome #mood #zen #impermanence #noself #thichnhathanh #seeds #delicate #texture #fragility #design #cycles
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Experimental farmer Shane Simonsen: Working on locally adapted #plants & #crops of the future while we still have a safety net. 🌱🌻
#plantbreeding #seeds #seedsaving #agriculture #local #permaculture #ecology #foodsecurity #food #nutrition
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“For me, caprese comes in a jar.” | Latest news
Anne-Sophie Pic—with three Michelin stars at her flagship restaurant and a constellation of restaurants bearing her name—transforms the simplicity of the Caprese trio into a spoonable appetizer t…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancuisine #Basil #caprese #g. #Gelatin #Italia #Italian #italiancuisine #italiano #italy #Mousse #Mozzarella #Oil #Olive #seeds #Tomato
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2780194/for-me-caprese-comes-in-a-jar-latest-news/ -
“For me, caprese comes in a jar.” | Latest news https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/13703/ #Basil #Caprese #G #Gelatin #ItalianRestaurant #ItalianRestaurants #Mousse #Mozzarella #Oil #Olive #Seeds #tomato
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Winter carrots seeds were sowed. This is two of 8 pots that I sowed with more mini rainbow carrots & some finger carrots. I should be able to harvest these carrots in November/December. I will have round & finger carrots sowed outdoors in pots in October & November, moved indoors over Winter & those should be ready for harvest in January/February 🥕
#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #RootVegetables #Carrots #Seeds
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Some of my rare Magnolia Blossom sugar snap pea seeds. They're different than my other snap pea seeds. I got these from #SaltspringSeeds & they've been tested & do extremely well in PNW area. I only support local, small seed businesses & don't buy much seeds anymore. I trade seeds with others & use local free seed libraries more than buying.
#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #seeds #peas
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Wattles planted as seeds about two months ago. The seeds in the 15 pots on the left were blanched for 5 seconds and cooled. The 15 on the right were just soaked for that time in cold water. All planted in Yates native seeding mix with a teaspoon of fire ash. All have a minimum of four seeds per pot.
Result: no difference between the blanched and non blanched set. (That advice, while believable, is wrong.)
Anecdata: the fire ash helped germination. This set is much more successful than the "just Yates native seeding mix" set I tried last winter.
Another month or two indoors and then they'll go outside for the wallabies to eat!
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A very big bin full of oregano flower & seed heads. I'm tapping them indoors, on a tarp. Collecting the seeds to pack up. Saving some for us to sow. Donating thousands to local seed libraries 💚✌️👩🌾
#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SeedSavers #SaveSeeds #CollectSeeds #FreeTheSeeds #SeedTapping #FreeSeedsForThePeople #SolarPunk #ZeroWaste #DonateYourSeeds
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I'm also sowing more flowers in our partial darksides of backyard/mostly shady areas.
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Eating half a soursop fruit yielded several seeds that I'll be trying to grow 👩🌾
#FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowFruit #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodSeeds #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #TropicalFruit #ExoticFruit #seeds #soursop #FruitSeeds
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#NashvilleTN - #SummerPlantSwap
#NashvillePublicLibrary #SeedExchange
When: Thursday, June 18, 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Where: Inglewood Branch
4312 Gallatin Pike
Nashville, TN 37216Description: "Come connect with your fellow #gardeners! Share your extra #cuttings, #seeds, knowledge, and expertise in this bring what you have, take what you need event.
No registration required. Light refreshments will be provided."
#SolarPunkSunday #LibrariesRule
#GrowYourOwn #BuildingCommunity #Gardening #NPLSeedExchange #TheSeedExchange #SeedSwap #PlantSwap #SharingInformation -
Ate a #soursop.
Saved & soaking the #seeds.
Going to try growing it.
Worth trying out 💚✌️💚#FoodSeeds #FruitSeeds #TropicalFruit #ExoticFruit #AsianMastodon #TootSEA
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Growing roots with Michelle Kennedy https://www.allforgardening.com/1757399/growing-roots-with-michelle-kennedy/ #annuals #blooms #BorderGardensAtReynold #bulbs #content #DayLillies #drought #fertilizer #flowering #flowers #garden #gardening #leucojum #NorthCarolinaWeather #OrnamentalOnions #perennials #rain #rainfall #ReynoldaGardens #roots #seeds #soil #sun #watering
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Melloona – where things grow a little differently
• ♥ ! • Happy Fantasy Faire • ! ♥ • It’s that time of the year again. Every year I think I know what to expect, and every year it still feels a bit unreal when everything finally comes together. What starts as scattered ideas becomes a world of its own. This year, Luna and I sponsored and built Melloona. Melloona is a quiet, curious realm where the familiar turns gently impossible. Expect wild colors, vines and of course, melons. It doesn’t shout, it hums softly and […]https://alruniaahn.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/melloona-where-things-grow-a-little-differently/
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Master Gardener column: What seed packet should I buy? – The Globe https://www.allforgardening.com/1713612/master-gardener-column-what-seed-packet-should-i-buy-the-globe/ #garden #gardener #gardening #MasterGardener #MiniBokChoy #minnesota #NoblesCounty #OrangeCauliflower #parsley #rudbeckia #SandyAhlberg #seeds #Worthington
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Volunteering With Rewilding Coombeshead
https://rewildingcoombeshead.co.uk/volunteer-with-us/#SolarPunkSunday #ReWilding #Gardens #GreenSpaces #Coombeshead #UK #Community #BioDiversity #WildLife #Nature #Volunteering #Volunteer #Trees #TreePlanting #Wildflower #Seeds
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Approximately 47% of the global land is classified as being under a dryland #ecosystem. Most of them are located in low and middle-income countries, which are dependent on #natural #resources to sustain their livelihoods. #CGIAR institute #ICRISAT pitch for the #heat-tolerant and water efficient #seeds varities to increase #agricultural #productivity in #dryland. #heat #drought #tolerant #waterefficient
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#UnityME - #MOFGA #SeedSwap & #ScionExchange 2026
March 29, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
MOFGA’s Education Center
294 Crosby Brook Rd
Unity, ME 04988 United StatesLet us know you're coming!
* In the event of severe weather, the Seed Swap & Scion Exchange will be postponed to the following Sunday, April 5 from 12-4 pm.
"Gardeners and orchardists are invited to bring their #seeds, #scionwood and #cuttings to share. If you don’t have any, come anyway! There is always plenty of seeds and scion to go around.
If you’ve been to the event before, you know that space can get tight at the start of the event. We encourage folks to join the event later in the day — we promise, there are still plenty of seeds and scions available over the duration of the event!
Community members and local seed #growers regularly bring an incredible variety of #vegetable, #fruit, #flower, and #herb seeds. We also regularly have over 150+ types of scionwood to share, including scionwood sourced from MOFGA’s orchards. We will also have limited quantities of #rootstock for sale. Custom #grafting is available by donation to the #MaineHeritageOrchard.
Other items for sharing are welcome such as plants, cuttings, #seedlings, hatching eggs, #kombucha and #YogurtStarters, #salves and other homemade items.
The day’s offerings also include #gardening and #orcharding workshops and demonstrations. Our full list of educational offerings for the day is coming soon!"
FMI:
https://www.mofga.org/event-calendar/seed-swap-scion-exchange-2026/#SolarPunkSunday #SeedExchange #MaineEvents #GrowYourOwn #GrowYourOwnFood #GardeningForPollinators #GardeningWorkshops
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Over the past year, the #LifeCycles team has been taking a deep dive into reimagining what the #SeedLibrary can be. With the help of many dedicated volunteers, we’ve spent significant time sorting and organizing seeds, and we’re excited to share what’s coming next.
By the end of February, #seed #donation bins will be launched at each of #GreaterVictoriaPublicLibrary branches. The Seed Library at the Broughton branch in downtown Victoria, which will both collect and distribute seeds, is expected to be fully functional by March.
We are also shifting how #seeds are accessed at the #library to make them more #accessible and increase their reach. The Seed Library will function more like a Seed Box - prioritizing ease of access, because we believe that access to seeds—especially amid rising food costs—is an important part of local #foodsecurity.
Alongside this, we are planning to continue the Seed Library’s core work of growing out heirloom and locally adapted varieties so they remain accessible in our region. As these seeds become available, we will put these seeds into rotation in the Broughton Branch Seed Library.
Alongside this, we are planning to continue the Seed Library’s core work of growing out heirloom and locally adapted varieties so they remain accessible in our region. As these seeds become available, we will put these seeds into rotation in the Broughton Branch Seed Library.
We’re also planning two #SeedWorkshops this year — a beginner workshop in the spring and a more advanced workshop in the summer. More details coming soon!
#Volunteer opportunities - come help us!
We have two remaining seed-sorting shifts and we would love your help:
Monday, January 19, 10:00 am–12:00 pm
Monday, January 26, 1:00–3:00 pm
Shifts take place at our Esquimalt office (808 Viewfield Rd, Unit A). Snacks are provided! You can sign up through the Gleaning Hub under Join → Shifts
https://gleaning.lifecyclesproject.ca/#VolunteersNeeded #FreeSeeds #SeedsSharing #SeedsForCommunity #SeedsSovereignty #DonateSeeds #SortSeeds #Nonprofit #VictoriaBC #Saanich #Esquimalt #VicWest #ViewRoyal #OakBay #Langford #Colwood #Metchosin #Sooke #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #SeedsForTheRevolution
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Seedy
Hello Friends! I missed posting yesterday because I was busy scrubbing the basement bathroom after our main sewer drain backed up Saturday. We couldn’t run water down the drains or use the bathroom all day until the plumber finally made it out at 8:30 that night. James had to wet vac the basement utility room floor and then I also had to scrub the hallway floor and spot clean the main floor where the plumber left dirty boot prints. And then I got to catch up on the laundry.
The storm was just getting started and snow was sticking to everythingTo add to all the fun, we had a winter storm blow through. James took the bus to work because of the near-blizzard wind conditions. We ended up with 5.8 inches/14.7 cm of snow, which is on the low end of what was forecast. Late yesterday afternoon when it was still lightly snowing and not yet arctic windchills, I ventured out to shovel the walkways, the path to the chicken coop and around the recycling and trash bins because today is trash day and they will skip your house if your bins are not cleared of snow.
This morning I was out before sunup shoveling the additional bit of snow that fell overnight and the snowdrifts the wind had blown across the sidewalks. Cleared a fresh path to the chicken coop and around the bins. Because there was a lot less snow than Sunday afternoon, this took not much time at all.
Now I’m sitting in a suddenly quiet house. The tile guys are here this morning working on my bathroom and the tile saw died. Kaput. So they are off buying a new one and will be back shortly to make more noise.
Last week they got two of the three sides of the shower walls done. I thought a tiny bathroom meant the work would go faster, but it turns out small spaces take longer because they have more angles and require more cutting. But today, after they get their new saw, they should be able to finish the shower wall and the floor. I don’t know if they will be able to do the grout today or whether they have to let the “mud” the tile is set into dry first. Guess I will find out.
Garden planning! I have a lot of seeds saved from last year’s garden. We really like all the tomato varieties we’ve been growing, most of the beans, cayenne peppers, garden peas, butternuts, marigolds, tulsi, and greens, but I always like to try new plants, and there are some plants that I’ve not been able to save seed from because they are biennial and I haven’t motivated myself to dig up carrots and onions and overwinter them in my basement to plant out in spring so they can flower and set seed. I’ve also not found a radish I like enough to save seeds and grow on. Maybe this will be the year carrots and onions and radish all come together?
I’ve got my new garden seed orders sorted out, but haven’t placed the orders yet in case I decide to change my mind or add something. My plan is to order them Thursday, but I’m beginning to think that leaving it open that long might be a mistake because I am not likely to remove anything from the plan, but highly likely to add. And I really don’t need to add anything else. So I’m going to declare it here and y’all can hold me to it and shame me if another seed packet or two somehow sneaks in!
Herbs:
- Cilantro. I decided I don’t like the variety I’ve been growing the last few years, so trying a new one.
- Sweet basil. I’ve been growing Genovese basil but the leaves are so small. This one has bigger leaves.
- Greek Oregano. Mostly perennial but last year’s polar vortex arctic blast killed it. I could buy a plant at the plant sale in May, but we like oregano so with seeds I can grow several plants.
- Broadleaf sage. Allegedly perennial but I have yet to get one through a winter. Instead of buying a single plant I’m going to sprout several and plant them all around the garden to increase the likelihood of winter survival.
- Elka poppy. Poppy seeds! I guess not technically an herb, but I thought it would be fun to have pretty pink poppies for the pollinators and seeds for me to use baking sourdough delights.
Peppers:
- Jalapeño. For some reason, none of the seeds I had been saving sprouted last year and I need some fresh ones.
- Poblano. James really wants peppers for stuffing, so I’m going to try growing these.
- Orange lunchbox. A small, sweet snacking pepper, also a James desire since we’ve had zero luck growing bell peppers and the one time we got any, a squirrel ate them all. Of course.
Roots:
- Early scarlet horn carrot. A pretty standard carrot and supposed to keep well.
- Dragon carrot. Purple on the outside, orange on the inside. Did you know that all carrots used to be purple? We have orange carrots because Europeans decided they were more interesting or something.
- Dakota tears yellow storage onion. I’ve not grown this variety before. It’s supposed to be very strongly flavored, thus the tears.
- Southport red globe storage onion. New to me variety with a slightly shorter season than other red varieties I’ve tried.
- Sora red round radish. Big radish that is supposedly tolerant of summer heat so I can succession plant all season.
- Spanish black radish. A spicy radish black on the outside and white on the inside. To plant at the end of July for fall harvest. I’ve not grown this variety before.
- Macomber rutabaga. I had some free rutabaga seeds from the library last year and the plants grew big and strong but I didn’t plant the seeds deep enough so just got long spindly above ground “roots” I couldn’t eat. Lesson learned and worth trying again.
Other:
- Red Kalibos cabbage. My green cabbage has been pathetic so I’m trying red. If red doesn’t do well, then I’m giving up on cabbage growing.
- Whirlygig zinnia. Birds ate all the zinnia seeds last year before I could save any so I need a refresh. I’ve never had birds eat zinnia seeds before. I will need to figure out how to protect some of the flowers next summer for seeds to plant on.
- Long pie pumpkin. Turns out the pie pumpkin I planted last year was a hybrid variety so I couldn’t save seeds. This one gets picked before it is ripe and ripens in storage. I am hoping to pull a fast one on the squirrel pirates.
- Hidasta shield pole bean. A pretty white bean with brown markings. Grown by the Hidasta people in North Dakota and good for soup and baking. I love growing beans and since I’m not growing disappointing succotash beans again, I have space to try something new.
New! New! New!
- Mother Mary’s pie melon. I’ve not had much luck growing melon in the past but this heirloom is from a woman in Minnesota and is reportedly a sweet melon good for making pie and jam. I have to try it!
- Purple Vienna kohlrabi. I’ve not grown kohlrabi before and the broccoli I tried to grow last year only produced a few small heads that almost immediately bloomed. Disappointing. I thought Kohlrabi might make a good substitute. We’ll see.
- Mexican sour gherkin, also known as cucamelon and mouse melon. Neither a cucumber nor a melon, this vining plant produces small green and white fruit that look like tiny watermelons. They supposedly taste a little like pickles, can be eaten raw or pickled and you either love them or hate them. I’m banking on loving them.
- Green striped cushaw. Also sometimes called sweet potato pumpkin. A large, sweet long-keeping green striped winter squash good for pies, squash butter, pudding, and roasting. I’m longing for the squash butter and the pudding.
There they all are. The garden is really going to be packed come summer. But then I say that every year and somehow end up with large patches of feral arugula because I didn’t have anything planted in that particular spot. Perhaps this will be the year I actually do pack the garden.
I had originally planned to also try growing fava beans after I discovered a recipe for
fava bean hot chocolate. I see the look on your face, hang with me for a second. Creamy vegan hot chocolate is a challenge. We could use coconut cream but then it tastes like coconut. We’ve used medjool dates but then it gets really sweet. Fava bean puree makes it creamy while not tasting beany.Of course I had to try it before committing to growing the beans. Sadly, my food co-op doesn’t sell fava beans, either dry or in a can. I thought to try the recipe substituting white beans instead because there are many vegan recipes that use white beans to make creamy sauces , soups, and dressings since white beans are mild and other flavors cover over the beans. We tried navy beans and it worked! I’ve been enjoying a cup of creamy hot chocolate now and then of an afternoon during my vacation time. Mmmmm.
But still, I thought I might try growing fava beans untilI I found out from the Fedco seed catalog, the only one that had fava seeds, that “In susceptible humans who have inherited a specific enzyme deficiency, within a few minutes of inhaling pollen or several hours after eating fava beans, a severe allergic reaction occurs. Most individuals have this enzyme and are not affected.”
Say what? This might explain why my food co-op doesn’t sell fava beans. I have never eaten fava beans and have no idea whether I have said enzyme deficiency, but given all my seasonal allergies and my inability to eat raw cucumbers and raw onions, I decided to not push my luck. And since navy beans are a cheap and easy substitute, well sorry fava beans.
The tile guys are back. Sawing and listening to music. Currently it’s the Violent Femmes. I haven’t heard them in ages. Blast from the past!
We’ve somehow made it to the end of 2025. What a year. Enjoy safe and happy year-end celebrations! May 2026 be filled will joy, beauty, and peace, as well as the strength and resilience to meet whatever surprises and struggles arise.
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Seed for Thought
Saturday’s mail brought the first of the season’s seed catalogs. And Saturday night it snowed. The snow was just a sugar coated dusting, but it was a reminder that winter is coming—eventually—because it is forecast to be as warm as 59F/15C by next Saturday.
But today is gray and very windy and below freezing, a perfect reason to lose myself for a little while in the seed catalog. Yes, yes, I know, the garden just finished up and James picked all the collards Friday and has them fermenting—collard kraut! It’s a thing!
My internet recipe searches told me collard kraut used to be very popular across the southern United States and some people say it is even better than sauerkraut. James has ours fermenting with some garlic and crushed red pepper. I’ll let you know how it comes out.
This is the first year I’ve ever grown collards in the garden, and they’ve been a great success. Not only did they grow well, but we enjoyed eating them too. The small leaves made it fresh into salads and as they got bigger they’d get sautéed with onions and eaten as a side dish or combined with other things like tofu scramble, lentil eggs, curry, or soup. The variety I grew was “yellow cabbage” and came from a Minnesota seed company called North Circle Seeds. I asked James whether he liked the collards enough to grow them again next year, and he said that while it took him a little while to figure out how to use them and get used to cooking with them, he did indeed like them and we should definitely grow them again. Noted!
I also grew Swiss chard for the first time this year and we liked that too. I grew “bright lights” and the plant stalks and leaf vein colors ranged from golden yellow to bright red. We generally ate the leaves while they were small, chopped up in salads, which added some lovely color. The bigger leaves sometimes ended up in a stir fry. This will also make it into next year’s garden. Yum!
Tasty and nutritious!It’s sunchoke digging time! I dug up the first bowl Saturday afternoon just from one small area in the chicken garden. There are sunchokes in the chicken garden because last year I was silly enough to plant two roots along the outside of the chain link fence thinking—actually I don’t know what I was thinking. At the end of last season I dug up half a bowl of huge roots and thought, there, I’ve got them all. Yeah, right.
This year I had even more sunchokes growing along the fence outside and inside the chicken garden. So I dug and I dug and I didn’t worry about pulling out runner roots I came across because I am sure in spring I will discover that they have spread even more.
The sunchoke patch in the main garden is enormous. There will be more bowls to come as James has time to preserve them and I have time to dig and as long as the ground is not frozen. In spring when the ground thaws I will be able to dig up more, and there will be more, because I will find out as they pop up where all the runner roots have gone to this growing season. It’s a good thing we like them.
My turn for Reaping What She Sows: How Women are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System by Nancy Matsumoto came up on Friday. So far I’ve read the first chapter, “Black Mutual Aid, From the Rural South the Urban Northeast,” and it is fantastic.
As with everything in U.S. history, Black farmers have been, and continue to be, discriminated against. You can read a very good and succinct history in this September 2019 Atlantic article (gift link), The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.
Matsumoto tells pieces of this history in her storytelling about a number of women farmers who have created cooperatives, training and helping Black farmers acquire land, seed, and fair prices through a cooperative distribution network. The women and their stories are inspiring and full of lessons on how to support regenerative farming outside a white-supremacist agri-capitalist system.
Matsumoto is familiar with cooperatives. Her Japanese grandparents were interred during World War II and her grandfather helped create a cooperative network in the internment camps. This network became the second largest consumer co-op in the United States. Given the political and economic situation in the United States currently, I suspect we will be seeing more cooperatives and mutual aid societies popping up all over the country in the coming years.
Throughout history women have been the seed keepers, carefully saving and preserving seeds from season to season and generation to generation. A few years ago I read a wonderful novel called The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson. It is the story of a current day Dakota woman who is gifted a cache of seeds saved by her ancestors when they ran from being attacked by U.S. troops. It is a story of healing and renewal. I was reminded of this novel while reading the first chapter of Reaping What She Sows because one of the women she profiles is a seed keeper and works for Truelove Seeds, an heirloom seed company that offers culturally important seeds.
Of course I had to look at their offerings, and wow! If you want to read more about the company, The Sierra Club has a great article about them, The Preservation of Culture Begins With a Seed I am definitely going to try and grow green striped cushaw squash! And they also have Korean hong-gochu peppers so I can make kimchi and even collard-chi next year.
The next chapter of the book is about rebuilding the grain economy. Looking forward to learning even more!
While I am on the subject of seeds, I have been a fan of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and bought seeds from them many times through the years. But in the last few months I’ve found out that as wholesome as they advertise themselves to be, this is not the case. In 2019 they invited a white supremacist to speak at their spring planting festival. After much uproar, they uninvited him, but issued no statement of apology or anything that I was able to discover. I have also heard that they steal seeds from indigenous peoples and then rename them and don’t acknowledge where they really came from, though I am unable to find direct confirmation of that. However, just last year the tomato they had on the cover of their catalog turned out to be a recently released GMO variety they sold as non-GMO. They said their seed came from France and they tested it and the results were inconclusive. Nonetheless, they pulled it from their stock and destroyed all the seeds.
Along with just discovering Truelove Seeds, I learned a few months ago about Native Seed Search and there is also Bertie County Seeds I just found out about. I generally buy seeds from Fedco who tell you exactly where the seeds come from (corporate grower, independent farmer, etc) and also credit and pay indigenous communities for their seeds. There is also Seed Savers Exchange. And then, as I mentioned earlier, North Circle Seeds, a small independent Minnesota seed company that sells varieties that will grow in my climate.
I guess I am getting a lesson in seed keeping and seed companies that I hadn’t thought much about before. Seeds are more than hybrid, open-pollinated, heirloom, GMO, organic. It’s important to know their origins and to make sure the people who have stewarded them are acknowledged and compensated. For some reason I always believed this was the case, but it turns out to be otherwise.
#collardKraut #collards #cooperatives #firstSnow #NorthCircleSeeds #seedCatalogs #seedKeepers #seedSaving #seeds #sunchokes #swissChard #TrueloveSeeds
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I decided to add some little seeds and things to my muesli.
Now I've got seeds and things stuck between my teeth.
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CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content
I know not of owt more important or harder
than #sailing an #unarmada to #Gaza
for all of the mothers, children and fathers
for all the defiled #immaculata
kids with shrapnel wound #stigmata
them who barely dodge #bombardments
griefstruck cardiac infarction
heartshot by hidden marksmen
those who’ve lost all but war-torn garments
those whose tomb is bulldozed apartments
maimed and starved and bereaved and #martyrs
broken-hearted kindergartners
to #BreakTheSiege and create a harbour
make space for peace, for relief and #barter
help the traumatised to heal, inshallah
flotilla, convoy, air - yalla
#seeds to believe in a decent harvest
#saline treatment, cream for #psoriasis
give them a garland, build them a larder
arm and a shoulder to raise them harder
and that’s just for starters we must go farther
say “this is Palestine” like “ #ThisIsSparta! ”
- protected under a #PeoplesCharter
- till all vestiges of #empire are gone
- #RightToReturn to the home they part from
- no matter how long gone or far flung
- reunification; no more carve ups
- no more militarised escarpments
- #sovereign over itself; bar none
- Gaza to #Quds and #Ramallah are one
- #FromTheRiverToTheSea, amen
- if we will it, it will be - if we are among
- #LiberateTheJails; every prisoner pardoned
- #state #RaciaData reduced to #carbon
- if #Netanyahu wants to cause more carnage
- start with us because we’re #GazasPartners
- all #GenocideApologists face full disbarment from every assocation they’re part of
- every illegal settler shall scarper
- the whole of the world must #RebuildGaza1/7
#Bars #Poetry #Lyrics #Songs #writing #rhymescheme #geopol #MiddleEast #IsraeliWarCrimes #FreedomFlotilla #Sumud #ConvoyOfSteadfastness #FreePalestine #Madleen #AntiFascist #Genocide
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All through Summer we are prepping for revival of our free community #SeedsLibrary - will update as things come together. I'm back at HQ on Monday afternoon.
Plan on a soft launch this Fall & a hard launch next Spring. We have millions of locally donated seeds to still sort, package & organize.#LifeCycles #YYJ #Esquimalt #FoodSecurity #SeedsSaving #CommunityWork #FreeSeeds #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PNW #Seeds #VictoriaSeedLibrary #YYJSeeds #FreeForThePeople #PlantAGarden #GrowFood #GrowHerbs #GrowFlowers #GrowPlants #CommunityPartnership
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Before I log off here for a few hours, I want to share this #GoodNews story. It's about the #LifeCycles #community #SeedsLibrary that I'm involved with & been posting about recently.
Learn more about our #seeds sharing & local #FoodSecurity efforts around #VictoriaBC #Saanich areas on #VancouverIsland 👩🌾👨🌾
"Public can soon check out free seeds at downtown Victoria library.
LifeCycles revamps its seed library now, just in time for planting 2026.The executive director for the Victoria #nonprofit LifeCycles Project is spearheading a refresh on its seed library with a goal to create open access where people can pick up all the resources they need from the library – including seeds.
Saving, sharing and sowing seeds has been a LifeCycles goal since the 1990s with a variety of projects.:
#FreeSeeds #SeedsSharing #YYJ #VanIsle #SeedsSovereignty #GrowPlants #GrowFlowers #GrowFood #CommunityWork #PacificNorthwest
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Trying to decide whether to tempt fate and sow my cosmos seeds in my annual container now or wait another couple of weeks. 🤔 (I live in zone 5b, def. not in the west coast but seeds are from BC.)
