Seeds=one step towards sustainability

Yeah, so there's going to be a seed swap at the Ecology Center this week. There is a note on the board at our community garden about please saving seeds. I think we are the closest community garden to the ecology center- about a mile away.

Anywhoozlebees, there have been a bunch of broccoli plants that have been going to seed for months in our garden, and most of them got pulled out yesterday (why let them go for this long and then pull them out?). Several radishes that didn't get picked in December were also pulled out in the last week. Radishes are the EASIEST thing to grow in the Bay Area, besides chard and fava beans and maybe some kales and lettuces and some potatoes. You get what I mean. So why not save seeds from one or two of the radish plants? Radishes are a great thing to grow because they give near-instant gratification- 4 to 6 weeks, and they're all out of the ground or too old to eat.

Also, people at our garden tend to leave the smaller or less productive plants for seeds. That goes against Darwin and a lot of other common sense.

There are so many things at that garden that go against common sense, and whenever I try to convince people of things, for some reason I "lose" the argument.

I NEED TO FIND ANOTHER GARDEN TO WORK ON. And/or move out of the city.

Ah, a chance to learn about tree grafting

I hope I can go to this, because learning this stuff has been on my list for a while! i bet they'd get more people to come if each person got to take one tree home, but that's just the organizer in me talking.

from: "wildseed christopher" wildheartgardens at yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:00:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Fruit tree grafting workshop february 25th 10am-3pm


Come to Ploughshares Nursery on February 25th from
10am until 3pm or whenever we finish, to a fruit tree
grafting workshop with Solomon Rosenzweig. We'll
provide the scionwood and rootstock and the trees are
all for the Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) and
Ploughshares Nursery. You'll learn the basics of
grafting, get to know some great heirloom varieties
and get hands-on experience. Plus you'll be helping us
with our community orchards and nursery. We're trying
to graft 200 dwarf apple trees and possibly other
types. Bring your grafting knives! This will be
outdoors unless its raining and then we'll find an
indoor space. directions are at
www.apcollaborative.org and
www.ploughsharesnursery.com
we'll have signs up on the day to have people find us,
as it will be location depending on the weather.
Questions, please call Christopher Shein at 510-755-1102.