s p r o u t i n g ....

Grandma is the master sprouter, she perfected her system, here is the scoop:

You will need:
- Seeds
- Plastic medium size party plates
- Small pieces of paper (~3 inch square)

- Small pieces of paper towels (~3 inch square)

- Water

- Plastic bag

Take a plastic plate, put a little piece of paper on it put the seeds on top of the paper, put a couple layers of paper towels, water them until the paper towels absorbs the water, grandma puts 3-4 seeds for each plate to try, repeat for all the seeds, stack the plates on top of each other, put them all in a plastic bag, and keep checking them to water once-twice a day, your sprouts should be up within a couple of days. Don't forget to label them ;)

s e e d - l o v e !

Yes, we are in *LOVE* with seeds... aren't you?

Though we are a little on the obsessive side ;) we may have hundreds of different kinds, mostly organic and heirloom... we buy, we exchange with friends & family, we save from our own plants... our little treasures... and we save the seeds for years and years in our refrigerator, in the bottom drawer, sealed in Zip-Lock bags...

In our experiment station (aka Grandma), the seeds that are stored in refrigerator performed very well for many years (sometimes 10 years!), except for leeks- we suggest you use them the same year!

Here are our favorite places to get the teeny tiny miracles:
http://www.seedsavers.org/
http://www.seedsofchange.com/
http://www.nativeseeds.org/

Fun Seeds to try in your garden:
Sunberry (also called huckleberry, wonderberry): little dark fruits, a perfect snack during gardening ;)
Arugula: great for salads and sandwiches
Tomatoes: Black Krim, Green Zebra, Black Cherry
Peppers: Black Hungarian kind, hot and dark color!
Kale: Red Russian kind, my all time favorite salad main ingredient!
Swiss Chard: Five Color Silverbeet kind, rainbow of colors, and so good for you too...
Nasturtiums: the more the better, variegated ones are so pretty! We do eat the flowers, and the leaves!
Black-Eyed Peas: Native seeds have gorgeous varieties, beautiful leaves and seedpods.
Peas: Sugar Snap Peas- very sweet (poor guys can never make it home, we eat them when we catch them!)

b e g i n n i n g . . .

Hi everyone!

This will be exciting....

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