Tag Archive: seed

May 23

Dating Seeds With Years Viable

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Great article from Easy living the hard way on how long seeds are good for. If you like to buy organic heirloom seeds to grow your herbs and vegetables from you know that organically grown can become expensive if you buy all new seeds every year for the garden.    As I learned from this …

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May 16

SHTF Garden Seed Stockpile

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Survivalist boards shows how and what they stockpile for garden seeds. I like the video because for folks that want to put together their own seed stockpile instead of just buying a seed vault he lists all the many seeds he buys so it may help someone to  make their own list.    I know …

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Apr 16

Building A Seed Growing Rack On The Cheap

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Are We Crazy Or What website shares building a seed growing rack frugally while embracing the self sufficient mind set. Hard working homesteaders always have to think outside of the box to make tools ( wire rack & lights ) be multiple functional so you get your money’s worth. Everyone is trying to make our …

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Apr 02

CHIA! The Ancient Food of the Future

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Great video and article on chia seeds and their health properties. The video is in Australia and shows how chis is raised and harvested made by Cobs bread Canada and the article that has a ton of info on the chia seed is from Living Foods. Good good info on chia seeds.

Mar 21

10 Seed-Starting Tips

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As spring arrives a lot of us will be getting ready to sow our seeds for our gardens. Fine gardening has 10 tips to help ensure success with seed starting. I have over the years had to learn a lot of these the hard way so it was really nice to find them listed like …

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Mar 14

Window Stand for Seed Boxes

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This is a neat seed starting stand you can make your self. From Earthly pursuits, they have a bunch of old time tips and trick on the page. Some of them seem like they would still be pretty useful in today’s gardens. If you grow cabbage and ever have problems check out the title on …

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Mar 05

Seed Saving Technique

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Eudlo Seed Savers Group blog shows one method how to save seeds.  Saving seeds makes it easy to continuously grow vegetables & herbs each year without having to spend money.  If your creative in your networking, you may be able to become involved with a seed exchange group. I have traded non gmo seeds with …

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Mar 02

The Ultimate Seed Starting Guide

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As we break into March, seed sowing season will begin in many areas with all the rest to follow soon. Garden therapy has a fantastic article to help us know how to start our seeds. They have covered everything from starting containers to mini greenhouses. If you are looking for info on sowing your own …

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Feb 27

How To Make The Greatest Gardening Tool – ” The Dibbler “

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Weathervane Farm blog share directions and a video how to create the greatest gardening tool know to mankind, in my opinion. This tool makes creating holes to plants seeds in with exact spacing and depth a simple task. Instead of long periods on time on your hands & knees bent over, you can do it …

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Feb 26

Home Made Bottom Heat for Seed Starting (or pet bed)

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I really like this diy heat table for starting seeds. I know warming the soil helps the seeds get started faster. Very nice tutorial from Door garden with plenty of pictures to show how they made it. You can also use it to heat a pets bed. Don’t you just love ideas that have multi …

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