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How To Save & Store Your Heirloom Garden Seed. 10 Best Heirloom Seed Companies Selected By Readers. © MrBrownThumb When I set out to publish the post on seed sources for foodies, Kitchen Gardeners, and Chefs I did not intend to create an all-inclusive list of seed sources.

10 Best Heirloom Seed Companies Selected By Readers

I thought I would just highlight four of them, and maybe TreeHugger readers would find one they had not heard of before. I expected the post would be well-received because of the seed companies that I chose. What I did not expect was the reaction from TreeHugger readers in the comments of the post, TreeHugger's Facebook Page, my Facebook page, and my Twitter account. Almost immediately, I started seeing comments pointing out that I had "forgotten" this or that heirloom seed company. Seed Savers Exchange. Growing Beans To Save For Seed. June 1st, 2008 Email 2 users recommend The small white seeds are those of the author's preferred varieties: 'Finaud' (her favorite), 'Nickel', and 'Tavera'.

Growing Beans To Save For Seed

Ruth Lively If you plan to save seed, sow a few extra plants with your first planting. Photo: Ruth Lively by Melissa BatemanJune 2001from issue #33 Growing beans for seed saving is fairly easy. Harvest the pods when they are brown and dry. If all the seed pods are not completely dry, leave them on a screen to dry in a well-ventilated location.

Bean seeds can keep their vigor for many years. Posted in: beans Get special offers, FREE eLetters and your FREE PDF bonus now. How To Get Free Seeds For Your Garden. Starting a garden from seed can be an expensive proposition if you're ordering online and buying from seed catalogs.

How To Get Free Seeds For Your Garden

A handful of harder-to-find heirloom seeds can cost as much as a frou-frou cup of coffee. Factor in shipping charges and you'll be wondering how starting a garden is supposed to save you money. Fortunately, experienced gardeners can be some of the most generous people — especially where seeds are concerned — and they are often willing to part with seeds to help a new gardener. Below are some tips on places you can go online and in real life to get your green thumbs on free garden seeds. Gardening forums When I started my first real outdoor garden, I was lucky enough to have been part of an online forum filled with gardeners who where as generous with their knowledge as they were with the seeds from their gardens. Sometimes gardeners unload excess seeds on newbies for what is known as Self-Addressed Stamped Envelopes offers. Organic Gardening, Modern Homesteading, Renewable Energy, Green Homes, DIY Projects – MOTHER EARTH NEWS.

10 Simple, Cheap Home Gardening Innovations to Set You on the Path to Food Independence. Alex Pietrowski, Staff WriterWaking Times The issue of food quality and food independence is of critical importance these days, and people are recognizing just how easy and fun it is to grow your own food at home.

10 Simple, Cheap Home Gardening Innovations to Set You on the Path to Food Independence

When renegade gardener Ron Finley said, “growing your own food is like printing money,” he was remarking on the revolutionary nature of re-establishing control over your health and your pocket book as a means of subverting the exploitative and unhealthy food systems that encourage the over-consumption of processed and fast foods. Thanks to the internet, the availability of parts and materials, and good old-fashioned ingenuity, there is a wide range of in-home, and in-apartment, gardening systems that are easy to construct and maintain, and that can provide nutritious, organic, and low-cost food for you and your family. Aquaponics. The 16 Best Healthy, Edible Plants to Grow Indoors. From farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agriculture, to urban farms and rooftop gardens, to produce delivery services, more and more people across the U.S. are embracing farm-fresh food.

The 16 Best Healthy, Edible Plants to Grow Indoors

And for good reason: Locally grown produce tends to be better for the environment and for local communities than its store-bought counterparts. Growing food at home also ensures that growers know exactly where their food comes from and how it was grown (no need to worry about deceptive food labeling). If you’re not whipping out the pruning shears yet, consider this: Learning new skills is good for our brains. Luckily, you don’t need to be a farmer (or even live near a farm) in order to reap the benefits of home-grown produce. If you have a sunny window (or two, or five) and a bit of extra time on your hands, then you’re capable of growing your own food right at home. General Growing Tips Fruits and Veggies Photo: Alpha 1. 2. 3. 4. How to Harvest: Most lemons will ripen in six to nine months. 5. Vertical Gardening. 12 Savvy Small-Space Urban Gardening Designs & Ideas.

Desert Gardening: Gardening Calendar. Vertical Gardening. Desert Gardening: Gardening Calendar. Build a #Mosquito Control container so you can sit and unwind in the evenings without dousing in DEET. Top 20 Clever and Simple Gardening Hacks. 15 Foods That Can Be Regrown From Scraps. I love gardening.

15 Foods That Can Be Regrown From Scraps

Well, not actually the work behind the gardening so much – it’s the harvesting that I really look forward to. There is nothing like fresh veggies from your own personal garden! I actually just planted a bunch of things in my vegetable garden, and may have gone a little plant happy at the feed & seed store. Oops. Obviously, we all know about the normal ways to grow plants – from seeds. Let’s count them out – from 1 to 15… 1, 2, 3, & 4. These are the ones I regrow the very most, I always have a mason jar of green onions regrowing above my kitchen sink. 5. You can regrow lemongrass the same way you regrow the green onions. 6. Plant a small chunk off of your piece of ginger in potting soil with the newest buds facing up. 7. Pick a potato that has a lot of good formed eyes, and cut it into 2-3 inch pieces, taking care to be sure that each piece has at least 1-2 eyes on it. 8.

You will need sweet potatoes with good formed eyes, just as you would want with a regular potato. Urban gardening.