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march - seeds sown
4 March seeds sown: climbing bean 'kentucky wonder', snowpea 'oregon sugar', sugarsnap pea 'cascadia…feb - seeds sown
20 Feb seeds sown : basil, amaranth (calaloo), tomatoes (mystery 1, 2, 3 and throwing tom). seeds sown last week : warri…seed storage
Rather than alphabetical, it's much more practical to store seeds by planting season. Just a thought.seed saver - rockets, daikon, cherry tomatoes
Wild rocket (the one with yellow flowers) has thin pods and very small seeds, while garden rocket (beige flowers with b…
surprise! have a grape
On 13 July , I used a babushka technique to pot up some grape cuttings. After two months (but probably more importantly,…
green coffee bean
I had soaked and planted out a few of these green coffee beans that had been hiding in the hessian bags I had swapped f…
got some more seedlings
Raising seeds takes a lot of patience, and I just couldn't resist a run to Bunnings for some plants I couldn't …
chaoshi kangkong
Bought some kangkong (aka morning glory, kongxincai) from the supermarket today. Then at home, I cut the stems just be…
grevillea cuttings
The kind folks at the Crowther Community Seedlings Hub (Josie and little Andy) let me take a few cuttings from their gr…
seed saving - nasturtiums
Pretty pretty. Three seeds to a flower; green = still growing; brown with brain wrinkles = just about ready; brown and …
seed germination (and experimental greenhouse systems)
Germination isn't necessarily difficult, but it takes a fair amount of precision in creating just the right conditi…
chinese apple seeds
Some seeds of the most delicious types of (fushi/fuji) apples* have miraculously germinated. We ate the apples and Moth…
little seed packets
I've devised a way to fold little papers into origami seed packets. It's a modified hybrid of the folding metho…
thresh and winnow
The only plant from the mystery flower mix that successfully germinated and grew (this was way back in March, using the…
cotyledon: cot-a-LEE-don
Cotyledons are the first leaves of a germinating seed. It's a useful skill to identify a plant by their cotyledons,…
*new* front orange patch
seeds planted out: - kale (2 types) - tatsoi - radish - bokchoi seedlings planted out: - gailan - komatsuna - marigold - bora…
identifying seeds (part 2)
the flower seeds, after two weeks: before, for comparison: I've numbered each seed so that as they grow, I can grad…