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**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 7

All saved tomato seeds from last year have sprouted up and the tomatillo seeds I gathered from the ground in the garden a month ago are up too. Heat mat turned off. They were started on April 1.

A photo of a plant tray with 18 square pots that have new seedlings growing in them. 15 are tomatoes and 3 are tomatillo. The varieties are Amish paste, Chadwick cherry, San Marzano, Flamme, Principe Borghese, and Rio Grande tomatillo. In the upper right is a black container with blue lid that has a hole in it with 4 pieces of apple scion wood sticking out. They have been in cold storage for a year and seem to be alive and have callused up on the end so they are in water to see if they make roots.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #SeedStarting

**That Wyrd Girl** @thatweirdgirl@fe.disroot.org · Apr 5

Apr 5

That Wyrd Girl @thatweirdgirl@fe.disroot.org

Hello! I forgot to make an intro post when I moved to this instance. Ope!

I am Nessie. For entertainment, I make messes and then try and figure out how to clean them up. Aka I’m an artist, haha.

I’m interested in lots of stuff! Stuff like this:

#Poorskills #Repurposing #Degrowth #ZeroWaste #SolarPunk #HopePunk #Gardening #ScratchCooking #SeedSaving #HouseKeeping #SimpleLiving #Dyslexia #ElderCare #Biking #SlowLiving #Drawing #PenAndInk #MixedMediaArt #AltText #DisabilityRights

And a bunch of other things that’ll pop up as I go along. Pleased to meet you all and I hope you have a wonderful day!

#Introduction #Today

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 5

Apr 5

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

First tomatoes are up, peppers are growing fast, and some new growth on the overwintered Red Marconi sweet pepper that I pruned and fertilized.

A photo showing a new tomato seedling that is up and leaves out. It is a Principe Borghese tomato as indicated on the plant tag. Left of it are tomatilloes starting to sprout but not up. There is some leaf lettuce visible in the upper right. The seedlings are in tall 3.5 inch square pots in a 1020 tray.

A photo showing a Flamme tomato seedling. There is a white plant tag/stake that has the name hand written on it.

A photo showing a 1020 tray with 18 pepper plants in 3.5 inch square pots. Some of the plants are more than 4 inches tall or 10 cm.

A photo showing a jungle of different plants in a 1020 tray in the corner of an enclosed grow tent. The main feature is a saved from last year Red Marconi sweet pepper plant. It is starting to grow new leaves. It has verbena plants growing around it with pink/purple flowers that are in separate pots. There is also a rose campion/Lychnis and grape vine growing in other pots.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #SeedStarting

**Zoey** @the_medium_kahuna@mastodon.social · Apr 2

Apr 2

Zoey @the_medium_kahuna@mastodon.social

The first round of seeds for my container garden have all germinated! It’s the first year I’m using heirloom seeds I saved from a previous crop. I’ve got basil, white cherry and Brandywine tomatoes, and Jimmy Nardello and Bulgarian carrot peppers

A collection of small seedlings growing in peat pots, labeled with names such as "Brandywine" and "Basil." The pots sit on a tray, with some seedlings showing healthy green leaves and varying heights.

#seeds #seedsaving #gardening

**J Mills** @urbanmicrofarmer@zirk.us · Apr 2

Apr 2

J Mills @urbanmicrofarmer@zirk.us

I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds, Chris Smith

"Our desire to preserve is strongly linked to a narrative of loss, both for biodiversity writ large and for rare heirloom seeds. But we recognize the need for biodiversity and destroy it in the same breath. What if we protected the Amazon instead of just the genetics within it? What if we supported small-scale diversified agriculture instead of industrialized monoculture?”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/02/seeds-biodiversity-hurricane-helene
#SeedSaving #gardening #biodiversity

The Guardian · Apr 2I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. Biodiversity and preservation need rethinkingBy Chris Smith

**The Rike** @therike@mastodon.social · Mar 18

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Feb 27

Feb 27

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

Capsicum annuum have been planted. 5 pots each of saved seed. Two sweet, one hot. California Wonder, Red Marconi, and Jalapeno. Sieved potting mix to remove the chunks of wood and rocks. On a 17 watt heat mat with a clear cover, and under one LED panel adjusted to about 220 µMol/m2/S. Temperature warmed from 63F / 17C to 78F / 26C in 2 hours or less.

A square cropped photo looking down on a 1020 tray that has a cluster of 15 two-inch pots that are full of potting mix and each have two seeds visible on the surface before they were planted with the traditional planting pencil. There are plant stakes/labels in the three farthest pots. As views the pots are 3 wide and two deep. The left column is Red Marconi, center is Jalapeno, and right is California Wonder.

A square cropped photo showing 3 heavy duty plastic zip bags that contain capsicum seeds. They are labeled and the two lower bag labels are visible through the bags stacked on top but offset vertically. There are hundreds of seeds in each bag that are generally a dark cream colored.

A square cropped photo looking at the end of the tray with planted seeds, it has a clear cover placed on top and a dial probe thermometer placed into the clear cover with it's tip resting on the first row of pots. The thermometer has a green zone to represent good worm compost temperature I think and has a cartoon worm in the middle. There is a smaller NSF food safety type thermometer on top of the clear tray cover. The bench top they are sitting on is blue and plastic. The background is silver reflective covered fiberglass cloth.

A square cropped closeup photo of the thermomter. It says "Worm Therm tm REOTEMP COMPOST" and has the 10 segmented worm cartoon in the middle. The thermometer reads in Fahrenheit on the outside scale and Celsius on the inside scale. It ranges from 25F to 125F, or -5C to 52C. It is reading 26C or 78F in this photo.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #SavedSeeds

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**Broadfork** @Broadfork@mastodon.green · Feb 8

Feb 8

Broadfork @Broadfork@mastodon.green

@Pollinators That’s really good to have them around.

I’m intrigued by the sweet red egg plant seeds. I’ve never seen any looking like those before.

Here we call egg plants aubergines but they are almost exclusively shades of purple in colour or a plain white. #HeirloomPlants #SeedSaving

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**Pollinators** @Pollinators@epicure.social · Feb 8

Feb 8

Pollinators @Pollinators@epicure.social

@Broadfork. Good afternoon Broadfork. The Seed Savers Exchange of Decorah, Iowa is local vegetable seeds as far as local goes. We are members. The seed catalog is lovely. The pepper and tomato varieties are hard to equal. The varieties rotate in and out. The Seed Savers Exchange also has a historical Apple tree orchard. Some years they have sold historic apple tree varieties. #gardening, #seedsaving, #heirloomplants, #growyourown, #minnesota.

**Jules** @afewbugs@social.coop · Feb 7

Feb 7

Jules @afewbugs@social.coop

#ExeterSeedBank's #SeedSwap will be on Sunday 2 March, 11 – 2pm, at the Positive Light Projects, Sidwell St, #Exeter, EX46RD https://www.exeterseedbank.co.uk/events/exeter-seed-swap-25

Booking links for individual talks in the following post.

A flyer for the seed swap with line drawings of seed saving and plants growing and photographs of the speakers. The text reads:

Exeter Seed Swap 2025! Now in its third year!

Sunday 2 March, 11 – 2pm, Positive Light Projects, Sidwell St, Exeter, EX46RD
FREE ENTRY (Suggested donation: £2) bring cash. Children welcome.
Featuring: Hands-on activities, demos, yummy café treats, plants to buy, stalls and more!
Talks Programme: Talks held at Sidwell St Bakehouse, Sidwell St, EX46RD. General admission: £5 + booking fee. Limited free tickets for under 25s with valid ID.

#Permaculture #SeedSovereignty #Solarpunk

**Malte Rod** @malterod@pixelfed.social · Feb 6

Feb 6

Malte Rod @malterod@pixelfed.social

Last fall I had the chance of harvesting a huge load of Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) when visiting Antibes in Alpes-Maritime, southern France. This herb was so sought-after in the 19th century that it almost went extinct in places in the UK and other similar herbs got sold under that name as a marketing scheme. I've been wanting to revive this culinary gem. The aroma is really special - with notes of celery, green citrus zest, fennel and the typical terpene compounds of umbellifers. This species have recently re-entered Denmark after having been extinct. I think we should grow it instead of foraging it. If you live in Denmark and are a member of Frøsamlerne, you can order seed from here this spring, to get in on the action. #CrithmumMaritimum #RockSamphire #Foraging #SeedSaving #CookingPerennials #PerennialVegetables

Two 1L plastic bags filled with seed and a watch for size

#perennialvegetables

**One Community** @onecommunity@mastodon.social · Feb 2

Feb 2

One Community @onecommunity@mastodon.social

Reconnecting people with food through large-scale gardening can transform the world. Grow fresher, healthier, pesticide-free food with unique varieties. Access seeds, guides, and One Community’s open-source strategy to feed 100+ people in a year.

https://onecommunityglobal.org/plaster/

#SustainableLiving #GrowYourOwn #FoodFreedom

**J Mills** @urbanmicrofarmer@zirk.us · Feb 1

Feb 1

J Mills @urbanmicrofarmer@zirk.us

Diverse populations of garden vegetables now available from Going to Seed.

This is US only, but the Canadian collection opens in a few weeks.

Pay what you can.

https://goingtoseed.org/collections/2025-us-seed-collection

goingtoseed.org2025 US Seed Collection

#gardening #seeds #SeedSaving

**Bloem en Oogst** @bloemenoogst@pixelfed.social · Jan 31

Jan 31

Bloem en Oogst @bloemenoogst@pixelfed.social

Hoi! Wij zijn Eline en Gossen en beheren een prachtig veld in de provincie Drenthe van ongeveer 8000m2, waar we ook bloemzaden op kweken. Dit doen we biologisch gecertificeerd en met hulp van het vele leven dat er op de kwekerij te vinden is. Naast vermeedering van zaden, werken we ook aan eigen selecties door middel van traditionele veredeling. Voor ons is het belangrijk om altijd te streven naar een balans tussen geven en nemen, een samenwerking met het landschap. Al vanaf de start in 2017 bewerken we de bodem zo min mogelijk, #nodig #notill is onze dagelijkse praktijk, om te zorgen voor een solide bodemvoedselweb. We nemen jullie hier graag mee tijdens onze werkzaamheden.
(Foto’s van afgelopen zomer)
#hallo #kennismaken #wiezijnwij #balans #bodem #bodemvoedselweb #gevenennemen #zaden #veredeling #regeneratief #introduction #whoarewe #balance #soil #soilfoodweb #seeds #seedsaving #breeding #flowers #organic #farming #regenerativeagriculture

#regenerativeagriculture

ΘΔ @skunk@ni.hil.ist · Jan 19 *

Jan 19 *

ΘΔ @skunk@ni.hil.ist

alliance of native seed keepers (AONSK) a non-GMO Indigenous-owned seed & benefit company who got their first building, is raising funds for various things like: offering resources for seed-saving/seed-banks for Indigenous growers, building repairs, decolonizing the process of contract growing, managing a seed sanctuary of ancestral seeds, giving back to other Indigenous communities, & many so many other cool things you can read about below:

https://gofund.me/125c49e9

https://www.allianceofnativeseedkeepers.com/

#Indigenous #Native #Gardening

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**marilyn** @marilyn · Jan 11

Jan 11

marilyn @marilyn

@Spr1g
In Australia, many public libraries offer seeds that patrons can "borrow" and later (optionally) replenish with harvested seeds.

More specifically, here's a list of libraries in Victoria that offer seed-sharing initiatives: https://www.plv.org.au/initiatives/seed-libraries/

Note that individual links just point to each library system's home page, and more digging is necessary to find details about specific lending programs (and sometimes also community learning workshops). Or just ask your local librarian!

Public Libraries VictoriaSeed Libraries - Public Libraries VictoriaSeed libraries have emerged as a valuable resource within libraries offering a diverse collection of seeds ranging from heirloom varieties to indigenous species, fostering biodiversity and preserving agricultural heritage. The...

#Australia #SeedSaving #Library

**Rewilding Magazine** @rewildingmag@spore.social · Jan 10

Jan 10

Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag@spore.social

For Tchida, seed saving is a natural outcropping of her lifelong exploration of finding ways to support the environment.

“This is such an obvious and easy way,” she says. “The connection you make intrinsically with the plants throughout their whole growth process is so much fun.”

#rewilding #nativeplants #restoration #gardening #seedsaving #seeds #minnesota

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-group-spreading-native-seeds-one-packet-at-a-time/

Rewilding Magazine · Jan 10The Group Spreading Native Seeds, One Packet at a TimeMinnesota's MnSeed Project is boosting biodiversity by collecting, saving and planting native seeds – and teaching others to do so, too.