Two seed orders in. This is getting expensive. No more! Everyone else set for seed starting? #garden #gardening #seedstr #homesteading #homestead
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I’ve hidden the catalogs this year 😆
One more order.
I didn’t really even need seed this year except for a few varieties. I have spent way too much, I cant help myself. I am getting excited. I love the whole process.
Same. I only needed a few. I think I still did pretty good restraining myself.
Its on the too do list.
This year im going all in on open pollinated varieties and saving my own seed 👍🏻🤞🏻
I do a mixture of op and hybrids. And also some breeding projects... growing out hybrids for reselection. About half of the seed order was hybrid seed.
Currently working on inventorying the seeds we have (how many seeds, species, varietal, year packed for, etc.).
Then we'll pick out what we're going to plant, how many, where (optimizing for sunlight, drainage, trellising, crop rotation, and companion plants). Then we'll be able to order any seeds that we don't already have.
Once we get a 3 year crop rotation planned out, it should get much easier. Doubly so if we keep our inventory up to date as we go.
Its crazy how many seeds can pile up in the inventory. I usually save way more than I could ever use. This time of year I go through everything and I'll test germinate old seed by growing it as microgreens in shallow yorgurt trays. Its always incredible when you take 10 year old seed like amaranth and it germinates near 100%. And then you put them on a sandwich!
Nope, I already made two orders also, then remembered I forgot one thing. Now I have a cart full of seeds again. By the way, it’s also time to order fruit trees. 😈
I still have lots of seeds in my box, so wont be ordering any this year.