Seeds y'all!

[carapace@mastodon.social]

Seeds y'all!

It took me a day and a half but I entered all my seeds into a list on my computer. I have over five hundred varieties, mostly food crops but lots of other things as well.

This is in support of a #SeedLibrary and to help with planning for Spring.

#Permaculture #Gardening #SolarPunk

[tiffany@disabled.social]

@carapace This is so cool!

[carapace@mastodon.social]

In no particular order...

• Galium aparine
• Potato, Blue/Multicolor mix
• Broccoli, Purple Sprouting
• Kamut, Khorasan, Triticum turanicum
• Celery, Chinese Pink
• Lima bean, Henderson
• Bambara Groundnut Purple Black, Vigna subterranea
• Lettuce, Landis Winter
• Kersting's Groundnut Brown, Macrotyloma geocarpum
• Ayacucho Cape Gooseberry
• Red Malabar Spinach
• Black Goji Berry, Lycium ruthenicum
• Red cocona
• Argan, Argania spinosa
...

(I won't list all of them, I just want to show off)

[carapace@mastodon.social]

• Radish, French Breakfast
• Hummingbird nasturtium
• Anise
• Valerian
• Squash, Desert Spirit Culinary Landrace
• Pigeon Pea, Green, Northern adapted
• Onion, Andy's Green Mountain Multiplier
• Empress tree, Paulonia tomentosa
• Sesame, Kurogoma
• Sesame, Black
• Sesame, Benne
• Sesame, Shirogoma White
• Dahlia, culinary, Cocoxochitl
• Ulam Raja, King's Salad
• Efo Shoko, Lagos Spinach
...

[carapace@mastodon.social]

@Tiffany Cheers! This looks like it's going to be the Spring when the seeds and the land I got finally come together. I'm super excited but also a little daunted.

[carapace@mastodon.social]

• Pumpkin, Yellow of Paris
• Cucumber, Sikkim
• Cucumber, Dragon Pickle
• Oats, hulless
• Sea beet, Dawlish wild
• Bok Choy, Purple Lady
• Rice, eight varieties
• Biscuitroot, Bigseed
• Rutabaga, Rutabangin' Grex
• Pine, Sugar (Blister Rust resistant)
• Pine, Italian Stone ("pine nuts")
• Sea buckthorn, Latvian
• Sea buckthorn, Moldovan
• Njama njama
• Silkflower, Korean
• Sainfoin
• Voronezh, Dragon's Head
• Quinoa, Wild Garden breeder's mix
• Rye, Sepp Holzer's Siberian

[carapace@mastodon.social]

I got a lotta corn:

• Corn, Astronomy Domine Sweet
• Corn, Blue Jade Sweet
• Corn, Cascade Ruby-Gold
• Corn, Chapalote Popcorn
• Corn, Cherokee Gourdseed
• Corn, Country Gentleman Shoepeg
• Corn, Hopi Blue
• Corn, Hopi Pink
• Corn, Hopi Purple
• Corn, Hopi Turquoise
• Corn, Japanese Hulless Popcorn
• Corn, Jellicorse Twin, Dent
• Corn, Montana Morado
• Corn, Otto File Polenta
• Corn, Strubbe's Blue Dent

[carapace@mastodon.social]

And a lot of sorghum and wheat:

• Sorghum, Ba Ye Qi
• Sorghum, Black Amber Cane
• Sorghum, Coral
• Sorghum, Gaolian Voskovidnyj
• Sorghum, Kawanda
• Sorghum, Korjaj
• Sorghum, M61 Perennial
• Sorghum, Mennonite
• Sorghum, Rahmetalla Gallabat
• Sorghum, Texicoa
• Sorghum, Tixey Mesego
• Sorghum, Williams

• Wheat, 16 Variety Grex
• Wheat, Crimean Winter
• Wheat, Eileen Bread Grex
• Wheat, Emmer
• Wheat, Nu East Hard Winter
• Wheat, Ukranian Hard White
• Wheat, Utrecht Blue

[carapace@mastodon.social]

Like I said, the idea is to set up a seed library to help other people get their own ecologically harmonious garden going.

I'm going to plant out as many varieties as practical and see what grows well in my particular climate, but also grow others in greenhouses to get more seeds.

Sometime soon I'll post the list to Ariadne Systems' blog (which is under construction.)

[clew@ecoevo.social]

very nice!

I've spent odd hours all winter databasing my seeds and setting up to have that feed into planting/transplanting/harvest records, since I want to know what I have and what I did and how *they* did...

I've been looking at the dozens of "small farm support" software offerings and I'm getting unhappy about who winds up in control of the long term data if you use them.

@carapace

[billstatler@forum.statler.ws]

Ah, another JL Hudson customer. 😸 Of the few plants I haven't managed to kill, most of them started as seeds from that catalog.

But I've had more luck with Salsola tragus than any other species.

[sarahw@mastodon.green]

@carapace
That's a nice lot of seeds, but most of all PSB!
I kept mine going for 4 years in the polytunnel despite getting attacked by chickens.
It's so delicious and easy to grow. Plus the season is different to other broccoli and most green veg.

[carapace@mastodon.social]

@clew Yeah, my memory is a sieve these days, I have to take notes if I want any chance at remembering what plant is where.

Have you checked out FarmOS? That's the only one I've looked at, a bit. They have their datamodels published up front, right on the website: https://farmos.org/model/

[carapace@mastodon.social]

@billstatler Yup yup! JL Hudson for the win! They're my favorite seed source.

I heard there was a guy selling tumbleweed, he had two niche markets: Hollywood (for Westerns) and Japan (there was an interior decorating fad, I gather. Put a dried tumbleweed in the corner.)

[carapace@mastodon.social]

@Sarahw Cheers! I'm really looking forward to trying it.

[broadfork@mastodon.green]

@carapace This is great to hear. Onwards and upwards! Seed saving and seed sharing is a win, win.

[urbanmicrofarmer@zirk.us]

@carapace Rad! Enjoy the sea beet. I grew those seeds for EFN.

[carapace@mastodon.social]

@urbanmicrofarmer Oh that's so cool! Cheers! I got over 90% germination rate.

[carapace@mastodon.social]

@urbanmicrofarmer I don't want to bother you but anything you could tell me about these sea beets would be very welcome.

[hippie@ravenation.club]

@carapace that is so cool and nerdy!

Holy shit, this post also brought me to googling how to make tables in #obsidian, I think I will accept that side quest you offered me there, and start my seed catalog soon!