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Seed saving
Some months ago at the beginning of winter I tidied up my saved seeds
and got the whole collection down to just 2 plastic ice cream containers, one of flowers and one of veg, or so I thought. Last night as I was furkling in my pantry and trying to decide whether to throw out the calf milk replacer or not and I came across another collection of seeds - some saved, some bought. A plastic tub about 40 cm long by 30 cm wide. What a collection! All sorts of poppies - Wind, Flanders and the Opium poppy (otherwise called the Paeony Headed poppy if one buys it). Pumkin seeds galore (Queensland Blue, Ironbark, Butternut, Jap and Bush) - beaut since they grow better from seed that isn't too fresh. Curled Parsley, Aragula, saved carrot - why save home grown carrot? Must have rocks in my head. Mustard seeds. 7 Year beans from 4 different sources. Rockmelon seeds (cantaloup) -2 different forms but both netted types). And the tomatoes - more varieties than I could throw a stick at! The list goes on (and I haven't even really mentioned any of the flowers other than the poppies)! I love saving seeds from open pollinated varieties but I really must either get busy and grow some to resave or throw out most of them - perhaps I should just broadcast them or sow them in poystyrene boxes and see what happens. Any thoughts? |
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