This past Tuesday I took our daughter to help organize the seed library, and she was floored by the opportunity to pull apart the seeds from a giant sunflower (she’s 4.5 months old). We swapped and categorized a bunch of plants, from annual flowers to veggies and native perennials. I took home some loofah seeds and won’t lie - I’m pretty excited to grow them this year.
We’re getting snow today so I’ve been continuing to split and store seeds for our own purposes, with an extra envelope of each to bring to the library. There’s a grow tent in the garage that’s probably going to be the overflow space for some of our hardier indoor plants so I can devote the grow closet in our hallway to seedlings and starts in the next week.
What’s growing on with you all?
Loofah/luffa is so fun! I’ve posted pictures of mine here before, but I recently did a writeup of my experience growing them on the little personal website I’ve been making for fun - https://xylemphloem.xyz/blog/luffa/
This week I brought in a pot from outside to plant some pothos cuttings, forgetting it was the pot I had grown dill in last year! So now I have some baby dill seedlings popping up alongside my pothos!
I’m going to check out your write up for sure! What you shared last year might have contributed to how weirdly enthusiastically I accepted the seeds.
Howdy! It’s ~40s and wet here in the PNW (with the threat of snow!). There are leeks, chard, and herbs happily chugging along outside.
But the real fun is inside! Earlier this year I built a fun little grow cabinet for a jalepeno, some citrus, and lemongrass. I promptly spent several weeks fighting an aphid infestation.
So now, I have happy little jalapenos growing, as well as some wee little satsumas.
And of course, several hundred LITTLE BABY PLANTS!
I’m getting all the early spring plants going that transplant well - lettuce, kale, arugula, you name it. I’m going to try and grow some carrots inside, we’ll see. Slugs destroyed all mine last year. Also, like 120 onions of different varieties. Geez!
I would love to grow some sumos in WA!
Just got access to my community garden plot! So many weeds… starting to chip away at it but of course it’s going to rain all weekend. I also need to plan what I’m going to grow this year.
I’ve also got tons of acorns sprouting that I need to get into pots asap.
Sounds like you’ve got all the fixin’s for some anaerobic fertilizer!
What do you mean by this?
Ive been eco-sourcing some nikau, kowhai, kareao and puriri seeds to bring to our native plant nursery where I volunteer at. Im also going to try and grow some kareao in my room.
I love this with every fiber of my being, in part because I had to look up all of those plants! Can you tell us more about the native plant nursery you volunteer with, or how you go about locating and eco-sourcing the seeds?
