Going to Seed with Dan Brisebois

One year ago I started writing about growing seeds. To celebrate this anniversary, I got a little crazy and changed the header picture and blog layout!

So, now’s the time for a little birthday review. Let’s look at

• Some post topics from the last 6 months (in June, I highlighted the first 6 months of going to seed)
• The 5 most popular posts of the year
• The 8 most-clicked pictures of the year
• And what might be coming in 2011!

POST TOPICS

Over the growing season, I wrote about growing to seed and/or saving seed of specific crops

• Tomatoes
• Peppers
• Eggplants
• Brassica Seed
• Chufa
• Radishes
• Garlic (bulbils, varieties and harvest)
• Cross pollinated lettuces

I also wrote a series of posts about

• Growing seed to sell
• and Field tunnels for crop protection

And about a couple seed growers I’d visited

• Hope Seeds
• La Société des Plantes

The 5 most popular posts of the year

1. Garlic Bulbil Harvest
2. Radishes Blooming and Pruning Lettuce
3. Garlic Varieties and their Scapes
4. Male Sterility in Plants
5. Brassica Seed Harvest – Mizuna Time!

Some of the posts on the list don’t surprise me – folks definitely love garlic. Other posts I wouldn’t have expected to be this popular – the plant male sterility post was just a quick post to answer a reader’s question but also happens to be an important subject in modern plant breeding.

One recent post that  didn’t make the top 5 but has been receiving a lot of traffic is How I Started Selling Seeds – Part 2.

The 8 most-clicked pictures:

1. Anne and Eric Nordell’s fields

 

2. Overhead micro-sprinklers

3. Brassicas blooming in a field tunnel

4. A rye cover crop beside some plowed ground

5. Crossed-up lettuces

6. Lettuces bolting under a field tunnel

Lettuce under Tunnel

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7. A field of garlic

8. Mizuna

And what can you expect in 2011?

During the winter, I will write about planning your seed crop, and preparing and packing seeds for sale.

I also still have some more 2010 stories to share: pictures from visiting Greta’s Organic Gardens, cleaning brassica and bean seeds, and a couple other seedy topics.

If there are any seedy topics you’d like to read about, please send me an e-mail (goingtoseedblog@gmail.com) or leave a comment. I’d love to hear from you!

It’s been a great first year of blogging, and I imagine it will just get better.

Thanks for reading!