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What's growing on, Beehaw? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 days ago by LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org to c/greenspace@beehaw.org
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This past Tuesday I took our daughter to help organize the seed library, and she was floored by the opportunity to pull apart the seeds from a giant sunflower (she's 4.5 months old). We swapped and categorized a bunch of plants, from annual flowers to veggies and native perennials. I took home some loofah seeds and won't lie - I'm pretty excited to grow them this year.

We're getting snow today so I've been continuing to split and store seeds for our own purposes, with an extra envelope of each to bring to the library. There's a grow tent in the garage that's probably going to be the overflow space for some of our hardier indoor plants so I can devote the grow closet in our hallway to seedlings and starts in the next week.

What's growing on with you all?

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[–] nettle@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also how does a seed library work? is it where people bring there excess grown seeds to share with others, because if so that's so cool, I wish we had a thing like that here

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

Yes! The "check out" procedure is writing down what you took and promising to do your best to bring seeds back when you harvest so others can grow them too. Our library repurposed one of the old card catalogue drawer sections to organize the seeds. The whole thing is relatively small, and is on a mobile wheelchair accessible table. It's totally worth seeing if your nearby library would host it. Our local grocery store even donated packets this year.

[–] circuitsunfish@plesiosaur.net 3 points 1 day ago

@nettle @LallyLuckFarm be the change you wish to see in the world