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Lisa, it looks like your new tomato plants are happy, yay! What is in the buckets?
The extra buckets have 1 eggplant....it's the first time I am trying that, 1 yellow squash, 1 zucchini, patio cucumbers, 1 patio tomato, and some extra radish seeds thrown in.
It's funny with the SFG...you end up with so many extra seeds. What is everyone doing with their extra seeds? Maybe we need to have a SFG seed swap, lol. There is no way to plant all of those seeds in our gardens.
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Looking very good Lisa you should be proud of your efforts.
It's funny with the SFG...you end up with so many extra seeds. What is everyone doing with their extra seeds? Maybe we need to have a SFG seed swap, lol. There is no way to plant all of those seeds in our gardens.
I am saving my seeds in the refrigerator for now. Currently they are in their original packages all together in an open-topped cottage cheese container, kept at the very back of the fridge. Remembering that this is only our second year of growing food , we are learning that we want to purchase open-pollinated seeds, meaning we can save seed from what we grow and reliably grow that same variety the next time. We purchased Jackie Clay's book on growing and preserving your own food, and we're looking into seedsavers.org - they seem to have a lot of information. I even picked some wild daisy-looking flowers when we walked a property recently, and I'm drying them to try to use the seed.
I am saving my seeds in the refrigerator for now. Currently they are in their original packages all together in an open-topped cottage cheese container, kept at the very back of the fridge. Remembering that this is only our second year of growing food , we are learning that we want to purchase open-pollinated seeds, meaning we can save seed from what we grow and reliably grow that same variety the next time. We purchased Jackie Clay's book on growing and preserving your own food, and we're looking into seedsavers.org - they seem to have a lot of information. I even picked some wild daisy-looking flowers when we walked a property recently, and I'm drying them to try to use the seed.
What are other SFG gardeners doing with seeds??
I'm not sure how and what seeds to harvest. I've heard that some seeds (commercial, hybrid, genetically modified) will not grow the next season. Is that true? If so, there's no point in harvesting and saving them. Perhaps that's not true with non-hybrid seed. I should have tried it with seed from last year. Guess I'd better try it this year!
I try to avoid anything GMO, but sometimes it's hard to tell. It seems just about all the tomato plants I bought were hybrids (except for heirlooms).
There are lots of places for us to learn about seeds and saving seed. I planted some cantaloupe seeds saved from the melons we harvested last year, all five of them, lol . The plants are growing, so we'll see what happens. I don't have the package for the original seeds, but I think they were hybrid seeds.
I found fruit on the Roma tomato today. I also have a couple of jalapenos and a chile with fruit on them. The peas are done for. I will have to plant earlier next year and I am going to try some this fall.
I enjoyed reading this thread and especially looking at the photos!
I never heard of square foot gardening until a few days ago when I came across this thread.
We've done something very similar for the last few years. We do a lot of canning and freezing.
These photos were taken on May 1 - everything was still small. It's in full swing now so we have things to harvest daily.
The pergola-like structure on the right is what we call our "berry house". It has a netting material on the sides and top to keep birds out - they were stealing our berries! In there we have strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and grapes.
Also have several fruit trees consisting of peach, plum and pear. Peaches and plums are already gone, and pears are coming along nicely.
Scarlett, those are great pictures of a very nice looking garden. How do you keep the grass in check along the inside path and between the perimeter and the garden? It doesn't look wide enough for a mower...
Scarlett, those are great pictures of a very nice looking garden. How do you keep the grass in check along the inside path and between the perimeter and the garden? It doesn't look wide enough for a mower...
That's our continuous battle!
Thanks, SB.
I guess it's difficult to put into perspective without a point of reference - like maybe a human in the photo.
The inside grass perimeter is about 4' wide - outside about 3-3.5'. So it's easy to mow with a push mower.
The center square gardening section is 12' x 12' which helps to put the other sections into perspective.
Our original plan was to have some type of pavers cover the grassy areas, but that was a few years ago. We're still not sure that is what we want to do.
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, we are learning that we want to purchase open-pollinated seeds, meaning we can save seed from what we grow and reliably grow that same variety the next time. We purchased Jackie Clay's book on growing and preserving your own food, and we're looking into seedsavers.org - they seem to have a lot of information. I even picked some wild daisy-looking flowers when we walked a property recently, and I'm drying them to try to use the seed.
What are other SFG gardeners doing with seeds??
