A Seed Saver's Garden

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Replanted the few tomatoes that either only sprouted 1 plant, or none at all. Wasn't many of those, but a few. Luckily my seed suppliers had sent me plenty of seeds so I had more than enough where it was needed. Feels so great to check that off the list - tomatoes - DONE!

Planted the martynia seeds, which I'm, SUPER curious to grow. I have no clue what those seedlings will look like; the seeds themselves were on the odd side, very bumpy surface, like a calcium encrusted cucumber seed. Collards and scarlet kale are up and reaching for the light too.

I'm considering planting some pepicha and quillquinna seeds as well. I grew the plants in 2021, and I don't know how long the seeds will last. Not easy to get ahold of those species either, so best to be on the cautious side. 30% of the cotton seeds have germinated, waiting on the rest.

Gorgeous sun in the sky today, and the snow has melted from the roads thank goodness. I can see a bit of garden ground finally!!!! Fingers crossed that by Monday I can see the whole thing, and the snow will be mostly gone!! April 11th is too far in the season to cope with this much snow!

Yes, good feeling to have sown the last tomato. Do you sow your long keepers at the same time as the rest?.

I love the way you double down on a few food crops like tomatoes and beans but then also reach out to some very unusual stuff as well - pepicha, quilquinna etc. I’m intrigued as to whether there are any particular facets of the weird and wonderful which lead you to engage with particular species, given the millions available! What particularly attracts, in other words?