Sugar Magnolia peas throwing a flower party with their friends the Mighty Mustard Mix. It can be hard to remember that this is what the field looked like only a short while ago. Before things turned to pods and seeds. And cleared fields and cold feet. But each of these seeds has a little flower … More Remember This Summer’s Flower Parties
Bins as tables and bins as bins. When we’re screening seed lots in the field we use what we have on hand. This is a big brassica lot that we just stomped and I’m screening out most of the chaff to reduce the amount of matter we bring indoors. The screen is just ¼” hardware … More Bins and seed cleaning
The seed harvests have been coming in. We generally cut whole plants when the are about 75% mature and bring them in our seedling greenhouse to finish ripening out of the rain. They are spread on tarps which helps capture seed as it shatters on the drying plants. Earlier in the season this greenhouse was … More The seed harvests have been coming in.
Chris and Owen are the founders of Truelove Seeds in Philadelphia. A farm-based seed company offering culturally important seeds grown by more than 70 small-scale urban and rural farmers. Chris is also.a market grower, seed keeper and educator at Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden. In this episode Chris and Owen discuss their seed stories … More The seed growers podcast episode 10 – Chris Bolden-Newsome and Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds?
So Julien said, “what if we used the sickle bar mower on the BCS to cut down that Red Russian kale for seed?” I said, “I’m not so sure.” But we headed out to the greenhouse to give it a try. And Julien, Hélène, Jasmine, and I harvested that bed in under half an hour. … More Harvesting Kale with a Sickle Bar Mower
Robin grows vegetables and seeds in Metchosin, British Columbia. Robin is also one of the co-owners of Saanich Organics – a collective of 3 farmers that run a veggie box program and seed company. In this episode Robin talks about how she selects plants from her 10 acre vegetable farm and transplants them to a … More The seed growers podcast episode 9 – Robin Tunnicliffe of Sea Bluff Farm
Monday, we took a bunch of flags and marked our favourite Rainbow Tatsoi plants. When it’s time to harvest seed, we’re going to harvest the flagged plants separately. The seed from these plants will be our stock seed for next year. In this way every generation is a little more what we want it to … More Flagging Rainbow Tatsoi
Sweet pods full of fat green Kale seed a few weeks from harvest. And to the right, onions are about to bloom. My next free online workshop is on Thursday June 16 at 2pm Eastern …
This week we took our spring radishes out of the cold room. (We put them in the cold room about 10 days ago, This is to help initiate flowering – we want them to all flower at the same time.) We planted 2 beds in the field with 2 rows per bed with 6 inch … More Time for spring radishes to go in the ground
A row of winter radishes in 3” pots. I spaced these out where I wanted to plant them. Then I dug my trowel into the ground and opened a hole. I removed the plant + giant solid plug from the pot and placed it in the hole. I snugged the soil up around the top … More Planting winter radishes for seed