Interesting. Is getting seeds such a huge deal?
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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It's surprisingly difficult to get seed varieties that are well adapted to smaller scale gardening and the vegetables / fruits you buy in the supermarket are often sterile hybrids or seedless.
Check out realseeds.co.uk if you are in the UK (or even if not they may still post abroad). Their catalogue is made up of open-pollinated varieties for saving your own seed from. They even have some open source designs for seed-saving hardware and are very based. In fact most of the veg currently growing in my garden is fourth or fifth generation from seed I bought from them is and is adapting to my local conditions.
Not really, and @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world has explained above why saving seeds can be technically quite challenging even for advanced gardeners. However there is another side to this - it is good that people consider saving seeds again, and learn how to. Because a lot of regionally adapted (easy to grow in certain places) varieties got lost when people stopped saving seeds and companies started doing it instead.
I'll often buy a packet of seeds that I want to plant, but I have a small garden and I usually only want 5-10 seeds from the packet. I take the rest to my local seed library so other people can have some too!
My library has one of these but I've got nowhere to plant them :'(
These sorts of news make me genuinely really happy!
That's amazing! I'm so happy and proud for you and your community!
Wasn't me, but yeah good effort on behalf of Tinker over at infosec.exchange
Aw, good character, giving credit where due! Thank you!
Awesome!
inb4 monsanto sues the library
Do you get fined if you are unlucky to have no harvest and cannot bring anything back?