Simple Starter Tips Start With the Seeds: To grow good seed, you must plant good seed, look for heirloom varieties. Basic Biology: Insects and wind can cross-pollinate your plants. Isolate or keep distance between plants you want to collect seeds from. Watch Your Plants: Observation is important. Seeds ripen in mature plants, timing will vary depending on plant […]
Basic Terms Heirloom: Open-pollinated seeds are selected & saved for generations. They are rare varieties with historical, cultural or social significance. If saved correctly, they will reliably produce an adapted, but true seed annually. Self-Pollinating: When a plant contains both male & female parts, it can produce fruit without insects or other plants. Cross-Pollination: Pollen […]
Despite many september frost warnings, and October touches of frost, tomatoes continued to ripen on my table well into mid-November lots of peppers picked green ripening beautifully on my coffee table hot peppers: bulgarian carrot, jalapenos, and garden sunshine gorgeous peppers ripening in fall sunshine lots of basil! it’s off to the Night Kitchen […]
romanesco! i have been trying to grow this for years. late fall kale & chard purple barley field testing i really really love funny shaped carrots Add caption Add caption late fall tomatoes late october jalapenos!what a treat after many frost warnings & garden coverings drunken frizzy headed women lettuce creating seed for next year! […]
beet seeds growing red romaine bolting, will flower soon & create seeds mustard seed pods about to fill with seeds coriander putting out lots of seeds drunken frizzy headed woman lettuce putting out tonnes of flowers from which will come lots of seed speckled lettuce bolting & creating seeds
how i save my tomato seeds A Step by Step Photo Demonstration Select a ripe heirloom tomato (or several) Cut in half horizontally Squeeze out seeds and juice into a jar Let sit for a week. The liquid will start to ferment, and a layer of mould will form on the top. Add water, the […]
Seeds from greens and herbs are found in the flower heads. They will produce flowers at the end of the season. At a certain point, you may need to stop picking the food to allow the plant to flower. Once the plant has flowered, it will start to brown. It looks like it is dying […]
harvests beginning to roll in! nothing like a big old bag of basil! mmmm mustard greens going to seed. i love the contrast between the dark purple leaves & the bright yellow flowers they produce when starting the seed production process red romaine starting to bolt cucumber plants covered in flowers drunken frizzy headed woman […]
Yeah Garlic Harvest!! I harvested my garlic! Last fall I planted 25 bulbs of my dear friends bradley’s garlic & now I have 25 bulbs & close to 400 bulbs to re-plant. I love seed saving! It just makes sense. Some of the garlic cracked open. I guess I’ll have to eat these ones! tied […]
Drop in & visit us anytime between 11-2pm – 165 Sherbrooke St. …. I will be bringing some of my little planties as well. Here is a shot from my lovely day spend at Avante Garden
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