A Seed Saver's Garden

[Alasgun]

As gardeners we have the ability AND opportunity to influence folks but sadly an awful lot of today’s gardeners are more hobbyist and not interested in the important aspects of producing quality produce.

The irony is that these same folks are always amazed at todays cancer rates, autism etc. and never seem to put 2 and 2 together? Go figure.

Mike

 

[heirloomgal]

So true @Alasgun. I have a dear friend who has really put on weight in the last 10 years, and is now pre-diabetic. Her sister had diabetes and died young, her brother has it too and recently had a leg amputated. 'Health professionals' have all told her 'she's perfect just the way she is'. She always politely tells them, 'thank you for your kind words, but I want to actually live. I want to work on improving my body and becoming more healthy.' And they meet her with resistance to that, interpreting it as 'low self esteem'.

This repackaging of physiological and neurological illnesses into acceptable and even positive states of being (like the 'health at every size' sham) is crazy. But in Canada MAID is the #1 cause of mortality now, so we've even repackaged killing people as being 'compassionate care'. Hard to fathom this is where we're at.

 

[heirloomgal]

I'm so relieved to have almost all the tomatoes planted, and the 'Schoenbrunn' ground cherries too. I'm actually thrilled to see the cherries up already in a matter of days! Not common for the physalis family! Could not for the life of me find my pump action spray watering can, so I had to buy another. I know it'll show up, but I need one now so. Happily, despite the persistent inflation of the last year (well, several really) this can was cheaper than the last by a few bucks. Can't recall the last time that happened, something getting cheaper!

 

[ducks4you]

HO.W.MANY gardening tools do we lose, find, lose again, RE find, buy another...find the original one a year later...

 

[heirloomgal]

HO.W.MANY gardening tools do we lose, find, lose again, RE find, buy another...find the original one a year later...

I know!!!

 

[heirloomgal]

Me: You need to stop sowing more seeds than you have room for.
Also me: Sounds like a 2027 problem.

All the tomatoes are sown, and 90% are already up! I tested a few older batches of seed lots, back to the first couple years I saved tomato seed. I think that was 2016 (maybe a few in 2015). I could not believe my eyes that not only have they come up, but they were up in a week. I wound up sowing even more than I had on my list, it's like I was compelled by the spirits of spaghetti & bruschetta, powerful forces to pushback against.

I was so happy about the tomatoes sprouting that I dug into my old pepper seed jars, most of which I'd given up on. They are not quite as aged, probably date to about 2018-19, but old by pepper time. My experience is that peppers are the one kind of seed I save that don't seem to hold viability as long as the other species I focus on. So, there may be nothing that sprouts - but we'll see. I picked mostly the decorative, colorful peppers, and a few hots. (The ones I said I'm done with, as I'm so over the burning hands that go with it.) Just opening the jars and planting the seeds cleared my sinuses.