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What's growing on, Beehaw? (beehaw.org)

submitted 5 months ago by LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org to c/greenspace@beehaw.org

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This past Tuesday I took our daughter to help organize the seed library, and she was floored by the opportunity to pull apart the seeds from a giant sunflower (she's 4.5 months old). We swapped and categorized a bunch of plants, from annual flowers to veggies and native perennials. I took home some loofah seeds and won't lie - I'm pretty excited to grow them this year.

We're getting snow today so I've been continuing to split and store seeds for our own purposes, with an extra envelope of each to bring to the library. There's a grow tent in the garage that's probably going to be the overflow space for some of our hardier indoor plants so I can devote the grow closet in our hallway to seedlings and starts in the next week.

What's growing on with you all?

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[–] nettle@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Ive been eco-sourcing some nikau, kowhai, kareao and puriri seeds to bring to our native plant nursery where I volunteer at. Im also going to try and grow some kareao in my room.

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I love this with every fiber of my being, in part because I had to look up all of those plants! Can you tell us more about the native plant nursery you volunteer with, or how you go about locating and eco-sourcing the seeds?

[–] nettle@mander.xyz 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Also how does a seed library work? is it where people bring there excess grown seeds to share with others, because if so that's so cool, I wish we had a thing like that here

[–] circuitsunfish@plesiosaur.net 3 points 5 months ago

@nettle @LallyLuckFarm be the change you wish to see in the world

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