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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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[–] xylem@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Loofah/luffa is so fun! I've posted pictures of mine here before, but I recently did a writeup of my experience growing them on the little personal website I've been making for fun - https://xylemphloem.xyz/blog/luffa/

This week I brought in a pot from outside to plant some pothos cuttings, forgetting it was the pot I had grown dill in last year! So now I have some baby dill seedlings popping up alongside my pothos!

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to check out your write up for sure! What you shared last year might have contributed to how weirdly enthusiastically I accepted the seeds.

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

:D glad to hear it!