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Originally Posted on January 12th, 2011

1/25/2011

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Seed Day

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I played with seeds all day.  This picture was created for a seed article I just finished.  I had fun gathering a bunch of seed and trying to make it look good.  Those are even fermenting tomato seeds in the front.

After getting these pictures I went throught the seed pile and pulled all the stuff I need to start now.  For the first time – I used my own saved tomato seeds.  To celebrate, the first one planted was – you guessed it – Sasha’s Altai – a truly great tomato.

I also planted onions, leeks, chives, parsley’s, kan tsai, celery’s, celeriac, pansies, violas, snaps, bok choy’s, chinese cabbages, broccoli’s, and cauliflowers.  I grouped the quickies to one end and the slowies to another.  I will be plucking tomatoes and bok choys out first – the other stuff will wait in the flat.

I’m going to slap it in the greenhouse for conditioning and cool germination.  If these Sasha’s are born in a cool greenhouse – they will adapt while they are in there – right from the beginning.   I also started a few Moscow, Galina’s, and New Big Dwarf – just for starters.   I was good – only a few of each.  Any I start now have to continue their momentum until they can go in the greenhouse or the garden.  That means potting them up repeatedly and baby-sitting them all winter long.

Mostly I start tomatoes in February – the 14th – Tomato Day. We plant Love Apples.   But onions, pansies, celery – they take a long time – all in one flat.

I had fun photographing a group of home-made seed packets – all different kinds.  I started using legal sized junk mail envelopes to hold seed.  Soon I will download a pattern for making them with paper.  Hopefully I can get some used paper for the job.

Recently I scored big on some seeds.   A friend of mine nonchalantly gave me a tin full of “seeds from the 80′s” – he didn’t want them anymore.  As if!!!  I was so excited to get home with that tin.  I ripped through it to find cool stuff – some things I hadn’t seen, mostly stuff I had, but the best find was in the bottom.  An old, dirty envelope filled with Asparagus seed!  Who knows where it might have come from – perhaps the mountains?  I can’t wait to find out.

Seed is gold – I keep saying it but it sure was fun to get so excited over some old turnip seeds.  Now I see all the potential seed has to make new seed.  Whenever I find something I don’t see on the market – I’m really excited to find it now.  Because I feel the power of the seed – and know once I have it – I will always have it.  That is one of the best gifts I learned from Bill at Seed School.

So here is a pic of some seed packets – ThunderfooT’s are the manilla envelope ones – cool huh?  I even included the corn on the cob – talk about easy cheesy – and prolific!  I especially love knowing I will always have corn seed.

Notice the cool new threshing screens Cord made me in the above pic?  Can’t wait to give them a try – I just got them for Christmas and it is time for seed cleaning soon.

I made it through the cold today by fondling seeds – one of my very favorite things.


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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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