Awesome advice. I took did this but only with the help of my sister this summer. My brain and neck are short circuiting right now so a jumble of seeds sat in piles of open packages. The plastic thing I agree. I don't hate plastic. We need it. Just small things we can do to reduce. I do many things like bring my own cup for coffee, use my own bags for grocery, buy whole FF&V without packaging, filter water from the sink etc. every little bit helps. I got some of those compartmented plastic organizers and love them. I don't use full seed bags so the extra go in a labeled compartment. Do you also collect wild seeds. Last summer I became fascinated with watching the full life cycle of wild plants I grew in my garden. I now have Wild Lettuce, Purslane, Marlow,Amaranth, dock, Shepards Purse, Lamb's Quarters, Stinging Nettle etc seeds seeds ready to plant.
I agree: "every little bit helps." :) Although I don't have room to have a lot of wild things growing, I have many things that I've "acclimated" to my area which now drop seeds and come up on their own every year. Lettuce, Parsnips, Dill, Corriander (Cilantro) just to name a few. Thanks for stopping by!
Beans - runner and dwarf, and tomatoes are my most reliable and easy bountiful crops.
Fresh beans and tasty beefsteak tomatoes.
Any surplus beans I give away rather than giving myself a job preserving them.
I buy tomato seedlings but grow the beans from last year's seeds.
Runner beans keep popping up from last year's roots.
Happy harvest to you Rob.
Great post!
Awesome advice. I took did this but only with the help of my sister this summer. My brain and neck are short circuiting right now so a jumble of seeds sat in piles of open packages. The plastic thing I agree. I don't hate plastic. We need it. Just small things we can do to reduce. I do many things like bring my own cup for coffee, use my own bags for grocery, buy whole FF&V without packaging, filter water from the sink etc. every little bit helps. I got some of those compartmented plastic organizers and love them. I don't use full seed bags so the extra go in a labeled compartment. Do you also collect wild seeds. Last summer I became fascinated with watching the full life cycle of wild plants I grew in my garden. I now have Wild Lettuce, Purslane, Marlow,Amaranth, dock, Shepards Purse, Lamb's Quarters, Stinging Nettle etc seeds seeds ready to plant.
I agree: "every little bit helps." :) Although I don't have room to have a lot of wild things growing, I have many things that I've "acclimated" to my area which now drop seeds and come up on their own every year. Lettuce, Parsnips, Dill, Corriander (Cilantro) just to name a few. Thanks for stopping by!