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Tag Archives: seeds
Update – Elderberries on Acid
Not much going on in the garden, and no precip for months. Strange weather… A couple of months ago, I wrote about scarifying elderberry seeds with strong acid. I checked the seeds this morning – they’ve been sequestered in the … Continue reading
Posted in Food Forest, Fruit, Native Plants
Tagged elder, elderberry, food forest, fruit, native plants, propagation, seeds
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The Alaskan Mill, Dreams of Spring, and Seeds With Character
It’s shaping up to be a cold, dry winter (so far). The garden has essentially been put to bed, and so attention turns to infrastructure. These three trees – two very tall pines (Pinus sabiniana) and a cedar – were … Continue reading
Posted in Food Forest, Fruit, Vegetables
Tagged catalogs, cucumber, infrastructure, seeds
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Plum Gone Wild
This fruit is from either from a wild plum tree (Prunus americana), or else from an ordinary plum tree gone feral. More likely the latter, since California doesn’t appear to be in the natural range for wild plum. In any … Continue reading
Gardening With Safety Goggles
I’ve been gardening for a number of years, but I can’t recall another time when I had to wear nitrile gloves to sow seeds. As mentioned in the prior post, I am interested in germinating a whole bunch of elderberry … Continue reading
Posted in Food Forest, Fruit, Native Plants
Tagged food forest, fruit, native plants, onions, seeds
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Adventures in Open Pollination
These are mustard seedlings that I’m growing to donate to the El Dorado County Master Gardener plant sale. I have them in a little covered wagon sort of structure, over which I drape floating row cover to keep the grasshoppers, … Continue reading
Confessions of a Bean Doula
I’ll admit it: I can’t help but assist the beans as they emerge from the soil, and sometimes I even help them by removing their little seed coats so that they can stretch their new leaves. I’ll bet you do … Continue reading