#saving seeds

[clairehoneybee]

Grow Your Own Bouquet With Heirloom Annuals

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#arranging with annuals #cutting annuals #cutting garden #heirloom annuals #heirlooms #saving seeds #seed saving #starting seeds

[demuthgardens]

Nasturtium seeds drying in a large pan. Good time of year to save your seeds. I package to give to friends.

Make sure they’re completely brown before putting into paper envelopes. I put nasturtiums in all my containers with plants in them.

#nasturtiums #climbing plants #under plantings #saving seeds #gardens #cazenovia

[meaganelaine]

Building Food Security and Sovereignty Through Seeds, Starting, and Soil Care

Dandelion seeds. ‘Seeds are the beginning of all life’ Food security and sovereignty are critical issues in today’s world, with corporate control of the food system threatening our freedom to access healthy, diverse, and culturally appropriate food. The good news is that we can take control of our food system by learning how to grow and save seeds, starting plants from scratch, and caring for…

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#food sovereignty #foodsecurity #gardening #growfood #saving seeds #seed care #seed sharing #self reliance #selfsufficiency #soil care #starting seeds #survivalist

[vikary401]

🍉

wamter..wamertelon…….wamtememlom……………..

watermelon zosan cause i miss themmm

#one piece #vinsmoke sanji #black leg sanji #roronoa zoro #zosan #i just love how oda depicts their interaction through watermelons on some color covers #idk how to describe it #zoro shooting sanji with watermelon seeds #or them just sitting somewhere on outskirts chilling together #you know what i mean???? #can you see what im trying to say????!!!!??? #watermelon zosan save me.

[8gladysworld8]

October 2022 Abundant Harvest of Corn, Walnuts, Potato, Squash and Keep...

#youtube #abundant harvest #abundant harvest 2022 #abundant harvest october 2022 #harvesting corn #harvesting walnuts #saving seeds #harvesting squash #harvesting potato #abundance corn #abundance walnuts #abundance potato #abundance seeds

[areyoudoingthis]

more than one person asked so i'm making a post about it. i use this program to download torrents (it's safe, no viruses or ads, i've been torrenting for years). and this is the website where i found the ridiculously hd version of ofmd. just type "our flag means death s01" in the searchbar at the top. for s2 you might have to search episode by episode, so "our flag means death s02e01" and so on (i don't know if the season has been uploaded in a single torrent yet, it hadn't been when i downloaded it). then just click the little red magnet symbol that looks like a big U, and it'll ask you if you want to open the link with qbitorrent. click yes, pick a folder to save the episodes in your computer, and have fun (the higher the green number next to the episodes is on the website, the faster the link will download, so if a link doesn't work just pick another one). you can always ask if you get stuck somewhere, i don't mind!

oh btw 2160p is the highest definition available right now so aim for those links, I'll leave them seeding forever

#ofmd #i realized how ridiculous relying on the website was when my wifi was down for a week #and now i'm extra glad i have both seasons saved cause fuck hbo i don't trust that bitch #I'm still seeding warehouse 13 after i download itbto rewatch last year #some shows should never get lost we need to make sure they're available forever

[afterartist]

Drawing fanart so I can actively ignore the angst of th e latest episode

It took me longer then it should have but I was busy crying okay so shut

New fave origin btw, sorry phantom but ur irrelevant to me now

#art #my art #fanart #mcyt #mcyt fanart #new life smp sparrow #new life smp #new life fanart #new life owen #owengejuice fanart #owengejuicetv #idk how to spell skulck and I refuse to look it up but gosh dang is it pretty #will not let the ‘lay our seed everywhere’ slide #save this man from his jerk landlord #its been years and I still don’t know how to tag correctly

[strawberry-nia]

the beginning of the estrellas legacy

Meet Primrose, or Prim as her friends call her. She's a twenty-something adventurer with a love for the outdoors. Stuck in an apartment in the big city that she actually can't afford. She's got her quirks, too, with occasional bouts of social awkwardness but you'll frequently spot her sipping coffee at the neighborhood café.

#ts4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #estrellas save #estrellas save gen 1 #sims 4 #simblr #what happened to the seeds? the save became so glitchy :(

[brushstrokes-art]

randomizers are pretty fun i think

#hollow knight #hk #hk gijinka #hollow knight gijinka #quirrel #hk quirrel #hk ghost #little ghost #fanart #comic #sketch #inspired by a real randomizer seed #though i have previews on so monomon and her 15 geo still live in that save file #nevertheless i STILL don't have any dreamers #anyway i contemplated properly lining and coloring this and then i decided that backgrounds are simply too much for me #so i guess this is the second in a series i'd like to call 'limited palette comics of quirrel being introspective while ghost is not'

[sarahmackattack]

Saw ur post on insta about milkweed. Are you telling me that I’ve been manually separating my seeds from the fluff for years and am only just now learning this trick?!?!!!!???

Mind = blown, thank you so much for sharing

Happy to assist.

For those who haven't seen it:

#Burn it #or should i say #Blaze it #Milkweed #Native Gardening #Pollinator Garden #Seed Saving

[pocketgalaxies]

"i've already said. i'm prepared to do whatever is necessary."

"i don't accept it, laudna, not from you."

#YESSSS YES! #when they had this conversation as a party and everyone acted like they reached the conclusion that sacrifice might be necessary #imogen didn't!! IMOGEN DIDN'T!!!!! they left that discussion with her telling laudna 'i want /you/' and never addressed it #and imogen has protected that little seed of selfishness this entire time. she'll give everything but she /won't/ give laudna #vs. laudna hearing imogen in these moments and breezing right past it. 'she said so herself - i've been dead.' #because imogen won't give laudna up but laudna will. laudna would easily die a hundred times over to save imogen #and imogen won't be able to do a damn thing about it. #1h54m c3e77 #text #critical role #cr3 #cr lb #cr spoilers #imogen temult #laudna cr #ship: imodna #delilah briarwood #cr meta #nova shh

[anipgarden]

Collecting Milkweed Seeds - All Facts, All Seeds, No Fluff

(OK but please also consider I'm not an ~expert~ I'm not a ~scholar~ I'm just a nerd on Tumblr who really likes milkweed and wanted to make a fun lil post about it)

[Image ID: a green, leafy common milkweed plant (Asclepias syriaca) with five large, ovalish and bumpy green seed pods. The seed pods are currently unopened.]

It’s fall, which means if you haven’t seen them already, now’s the time that milkweed plants will start producing seed pods! (Well, technically, they’re called follicles, but fuck it they’re seed pods).  Each pod has dozens of seeds inside, some species can even have up to 200 seeds, so even collecting just a few can be a good way to boost your pollinator gardening efforts big time! What you do with them then is up to you--adding life to your backyard garden, sharing with friends, making seed bombs--but first you’ve gotta collect them.

The first thing you want to do is identify your milkweed plants--in an ideal world, you’d be able to tell precisely what kind of milkweed you’re collecting from (so you can know precisely what growing conditions that species prefers.) But when they’re dying back, forming pods, and releasing their seeds, it can be hard to tell. It helps to visit sites early, to know what milkweeds are there, and while you’re there you might even find some forming pods. 

It can be helpful to band off the pods early! This will keep the seeds from escaping, so you can come back later and collect them! I would only do this for a couple of pods--each pod has a lot of seed in it, so only taking one or two from each plant should still net you plenty of rewards! When I’m doing this in my backyard, I tend to use rubber bands--the size of rubber band you’ll need varies depending on the species. I’ve also seen people use the lacy-looking jewelry bags to a similar effect--if the pod splits open, all the seeds get trapped in the bag!

[Image ID: the first image is of appears to be swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) with about fifteen long, green, smooth and pointed seed pods. Most of the pods have small black rubber bands wrapped around the midsections. The second image is of what appears to be common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) with two large, ovalish and bumpy green seed pods. A white fine mesh bag has been tied over the pods.]

For people who want to get seeds from unopened pods, you have to be very careful not to force open a pod that isn’t ready--otherwise, the seeds inside won’t fully develop. How do you tell if a pod is ripe? There’s a seam in each pod, and it should open fairly easily with minimal pressure if it’s basically ready. If you’re basically prying it open, you’re too early. The seeds inside should be a nice dark color, and be plump in the middle--if they’re creamy colored or light orange, you’re too early. There may be some undeveloped seeds in each pod (I am talking maybe 1 to 3 here), but if the majority of them are ready, you’re good to go!

[Image ID: a tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) seed pod that has been opened at the seam, revealing dark brown seeds and lots of creamy white floss. Four seeds are floating away from the pod on fluffy white comas. The pod is being held between a white person's fingers.]

I’ve also seen people who go late late late into the season, after most of the pods have already fully split off and released their seeds. Some of the seeds occasionally stay in the pod, so they’ll take the leftovers that didn’t get scattered after winter passes. That’s a fair strategy! I prefer to get mine way early on, so I can get a clear ID of what kind of milkweed it is (some will flower and produce pods at the same time), but if you already got an ID early in the season and then come back later this can also work! But…

[Image ID: several dried brown seed pods have opened fully, releasing a cloud of milkweed floss with seeds attached. Some seeds are still in the pods, but many are primed to float away.]

There is, however, one thing that tends to be a bit annoying about collecting milkweed seeds--and that’s the fluff. These fluffy white bits attached to the seed--called comas--function similarly to the iconic fluffy dandelion seed. A milkweed seed’s coma allows it to float through the air and on the water until it (hypothetically) reaches bare soil or an otherwise suitable start to settle down and germinate. If you’re collecting the seeds for later use, though, that same coma can mean your milkweed seeds are traveling through the air and away from where you’re collecting them, or all over your apartment once you get them home. Removing the comas by hand is an option, but tedious, and still leads to a nice pile of fluffy that will get airborne at the first gust of wind. At the end of the day, for many people trying to collect milkweed seeds, the coma is just an annoying part they dread.

Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to collect milkweed seeds without having to deal with the comas long-term!

[Image ID: A single brown milkweed seed floating on a comparatively huge mess of white fibers.]

Method 1

So this is my favorite method because it's honestly one of the simplest and easiest once you get used to it. You open the pod, grip the top part of the middle ‘pith’ section tight, and gently scrape off the seeds into a bowl or bag. This leaves you with almost no fluff in your collection bin, and you can then toss the middle fluffy part--or I’ve heard of people collecting milkweed fluff for spinning! Most of the videos I’ve seen on it use common milkweed or other large milkweed pods as an example--however, I’ve successfully done this with smaller milkweed pods like A. curassavica as well. 

Method 2

This method is one I’ve used in the past. Take the seeds and fluff and put them into a bag (paper or plastic) and add a coin or two. Shake the bag around--a lot. The coin will dislodge the comas from the seeds. The seeds will then drop to the bottom of the container, and the fluff will float around on the top. I’ve also seen this with buckets and blocks, like in the video below!

Method 3

I’ve seen a handful of people discuss burning the floss of the seeds! Apparently the seeds themselves aren’t damaged badly by the fire, though honestly this is a method that I am simply too anxious to try myself.

Method 4

This was a method I found while I was looking for other methods people have done. Apparently, you can just roll the pod between your hands and it’ll work to dislodge the seeds? I may have to try it next time!

Hopefully this advice is helpful for you all! I know collecting seeds was a hassle for me before I learned my favorite method. If I had a nickel for every time I got yelled at for releasing milkweed fluff into the house...

If you've got a method that I haven't heard about yet, let me know!! I'm always down to learn more about milkweed, and it can also help someone else down the line!

#milkweed #asclepias #seed saving #seed collecting #pollinator garden #outdoor gardening #gardening #flowers #ani rambles #out of queue #i think this was my first time doing image descriptions??? if they suck ass let me know and I'll Make Adjustments As Recommended #i've seen people talk about spinning the milkweed floss??? but I saw online that it was too brittle to be spun???? #but either way if you wanna save the floss and do Stuff with it go for it #did you know. or actually this is me functioning from memory. #but if I recall correctly I believe in either the WWI era or the WWII era #people would pay kids to go around fields collecting milkweed seed pods and pay them by the pound #and then they'd take the floss and use it to fill life jackets for soldiers? #i think this was less of a 'extorted child labor sweat shop' deal and more of a like #'hey kids wanna earn some cash and also be a Patriotic Citizen? go find some seed pods and we'll give you money' #which i guess many people WOULD consider an Extorted Child Labor kinda deal but like #idk seems like a chill deal to me #anyways hope you guys like this post #Youtube

[booksandmore]

moshang as persephone and hades writes itself

#hmmmm sqq as demeter methinks #moshang #svsss #scum villian self saving system #mxtx #shang qinghua #mobei jun #does sqh unknowingly fall into the underworld/demon relm or does he go there himself to ‘follow the plot’? you decide! #sqh unknowingly eating sunflower seeds forgetting it means he cant leave vs cang qiong on fire from losing the one person holding the place #together #lbh busting down mbj’s palace because rich boy sqq canNOT be doing paperwork mbj return the rodent AT ONCE #hm lbh = zeus???? #somehow im thinking lqg as hermes idk #HEY 12 peaks 12 olymplians!!!! #ohhh athena = sqq??? but for the purposes of the story hes acting like demeter #sqq: i hate ur guys but so help me me i will cause the world famine and death if u dont come back #sqh: i love u too bro????

[turtlesandfrogs]

Today, we're doing part of the selection process for saving seed from kale. Ideally, when they bloom next year, I'll have winnowed my population down to about 25 to 50 plants.

Already, I've selected for:

Ability to sprout after more than a year of poor storage conditions

Vigor in overcrowded situations (because I thought it wouldn't have a good germination rate... turns out they're very resilient seeds!)

Strong root systems capable of getting water even without irrigating, even in hotter and dryer conditions than normal (they're in a hoop house)

Now, I'm selecting for leaf shape and resistance to invertebrate grazing pressure:

I'm working from a grex, which in the context that I know it from, is a population of plants that have a lot of genetic diversity, with a lot of expressed variety, which can either be maintainedor be used to select a new variety. You can make a grex by picking a few varieties of kale, for example, letting them cross, and then choosing to maintain a certain level of diversity through the following generations.

We've decided that we like the broader, flatter, less frilly leaves, so I'm thinning out all the frilly-est plants. Here's post thinning:

And here's the day's kale for breakfast and lunch:

I'll keep making selections over the next year or so, removing from the gene pool any that are too bug eaten, or don't make it through winter, or bolt way early next spring.

Now, I'm not an expert here, and I'm doing this very casually, but I've been very happy with the results so far. If you want to learn more, I really liked Carol Deppe's book about breeding vegetables.

#seed saving #permaculture #vegetable gardening #solarpunk gardening

[mlpoutofcontext]

#Wednesday on a Tuesday #it's a Daylight Savings Time thing #fiw wednesday #Snowdrop #Snowblind #friendship is witchcraft #Seed No Evil

[moonliteve]

tfw you're sent to stop a doomsday cult but you are not immune to four very charming and sexy people

#my silly deputy milo's debut!!! #he's scared and confused all the time 😭 save him #far cry 5 #far cry 5 fanart #fc5 #joseph seed #john seed #jacob seed #faith seed #jess black #nick rye #joseph seed x deputy #john seed x deputy #jacob seed x deputy #faith seed x deputy #i want fc5 mutuals………cries #pls be my friend im very harmless #oc: miroslav radojevic #my art