As a seed grower for Koanga for over 20 years one of the many seed lines i grow is the California Red Onion,last season i noticed a very unusual looking mutant plant,the flowers looked so different to all the others ive ever grown over the years.
We have a few problems here saving carrot seed as we are over run with queen anne's lace and it crosses, but there are a few varieties of carrots that I would like to get seed from, and I have decided to try isolating some heads in bags and hand poll
Read more…Seedsavers are having a garden visit to my garden this Saturday 26 November.
The garden is about 1000²m that has many differnet fruit trees, vegetables and herbs as well as a large number of trees, shrubs and flowers to encourage the beneificail inse
Read more…Auckland seedsavers are having there seed swap and AGM this Saturday at the Auckland Botanic Gardens Manurewa 9-10 seed cleaning sorting and packing10-12 seed collection and seed swap. There will be a short talk by Stella Christoffersen who is our
Read more…Hi can any1 recommend how to grow fruit from seed, do you need to dry them first? or just plonk em in a pot?
Read more…Dear all, I would like to save seeds from my heirloom tomato plants, garden peach and black cherry. What's the best way to do it, fermentation or just spread the seeds on kitchen paper towel. Thanks in advance.
Read more…I though I would share with you my success at germinating pommegranates.
I am from England, and there it was a common thing to buy around xmas time. In NZ they are a lot more expensive and harder to come by.
I read up about their growing conditio
Read more…This might be a bit of a novice question, but I find I go through quite a lot of sprout seeds which I have being buying for about $4 a packet. If I wanted to save my own alpha seeds, does anyone know how much time/space it would take till the plant
Read more…I ve started to soak some seeds just to clean them down, and sort out the redundant seeds, but i would like to know at what temperature and for how long and the best way to dry them as it is quite humid here in chch at the moment and i'm a little ten
Read more…Does anyone know what to do with chilli seeds once you've scraped them out of the spicy little buggers? Or even if it's worth doing anything i.e. with chillis bought from the markets, will the seeds do anything anyway? please bear in mind i'm a newbi
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