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Posted on 01/13/2012 8:25:57 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
Good morning everybody! It is cold and clear here in NE Louisiana, zone 8a, we should reach 50° today under sunny skies. We've received several inches of rain in the past 3 weeks, so there will be no garden prep for a while yet, but the sunny sky has a way of getting me in the mood.
In last week's thread we discussed our seed and supply catalogs. This week I intended to discuss saving seeds from our own harvests, and starting seeds indoors. In preparing, I actually found a couple of articles that are very informative and give good information in very plain, easy to understand language.
Both of these articles are from GRIT magazine online. It is my hope that you will benefit from this information. The pages seem to load very slowly, but you may find it time well invested.
Vegetable Seed Saving: What You Need to Know
If you have any links with good information along these lines, please feel free to share them with the group!
Victory = good folks.
I note that several gardeners at Tomatoville have saved anywhere from 500,000 to 1.5 million tomato seeds as individuals. (The pic of the filing cabinet filled top to bottom with bags of tomato seeds is worth the visit.) They would probably have room to plant those seeds if it weren't for flowers taking up all the good space. :-)
I thought I was the only one that used pill bottles! I took so much medicine when I was battling Lyme Disease, and I saved prescription bottles of every size. Like most stuff that I squirrel away, I didn't know what I was going to do with them, but I knew they would serve a purpose.
Seed saving was the ticket for my pill bottle stash. The dark amber color keeps out the light, and they are so easy to label or relabel with some masking tape and permanent marker.
With the aid of some of those 3 lb. onion mesh bags, I can keep all of my bottles of veggies together ... squash, okra, beans, etc. So I have rubbermaid containers full of bags full of bottles. lol There is a method to my madness.
Beautiful, as are all of the photos you post from Benderville.
OMG.
Awwwww ... bunnies! I would really like to work myself up to raising some rabbits for meat. If it works with the chickens, perhaps I’ll try rabbits next. It hasn’t worked with the meat goats so far, they are all pets. So, instead of having goat to eat, we have vet bills, food bills, and fence maintenance. :(
Excellent sounding recipe. Thanks so much for posting.
We have around 900+ acres of wheat planted, and I am determined to have some of the straw baled this year. Starting in late Sept., you can sell that stuff for good money as the ladies start putting the fall decor in the yards. Could probably sell as livestock bedding too. Problem is that almost nobody bales in small rectangles anymore ... they've all gone to the big roll bales.
THAT is some serious tomato seed saving. Wow.
My wife won’t be complaining about my little cardboard box any more...
What GREAT ideas. We’re still working with the lot next to the Sr Center for a community garden. The green house can be the hydroponic area...great ideas.
You sound like me. I’ve saved the old containers we used to hold film, hubby’s med bottles, my olive bottles, some small plastic containers that I have put “some” leftover seeds in, from last year. Luckily I didn’t forget to label them. I save pretty jars and add liquer plus fresh fruit slices to intensify the fruit flavor. I use hubby’s empty liquor bottles to make my fruit liquer. It’s fun and I’ve a lot of Scot running thru my veins.
YOU are right, OMG, WOW!
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Wow. Some of those people are hard core.
Yum! Bet they look really pretty too!
‘Hard core’ is the exact words I used when I saw that...makes me wonder what seed companies have laying around. It also makes me wonder how there can be a ‘hunger problem’ in this country...
So, instead of having goat to eat, we have vet bills, food bills, and fence maintenance.
Pigs, OTOH, never failed to fill the freezer with a minimum of trouble...except getting the hide off. (Had to skin them, as there was no feasible way to dip & scrape.)
Rabbits are quick, easy, reliable, and don’t cause trouble. Hot, humid summers can be a problem.
I had the newest and fastest car at the Drag Strip that’s what she saw in me!!!
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