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I have heard a lot of concerns about seed availability since this Covid-19 situation and there are a lot of seed companies literally out of seed at this time. I was trying to think of some out of the box ways to come up with seed if need be...
I ran across a video of a gal in India that was resprouting onion plants from the bottom cutoffs from the onions she was using. She then stated that they would go to seed and she would use the seed to grow more onions.. Seemed a perfect place to start as I use a lot of onions and generally a 50 pound bag of them stored away...
I have many times in past years planted carrot cutoffs and then collected the greens from them through the winter. In the spring have often moved them outdoors and allowed them to go to seed.
I quite like leeks but they are a tad expensive around here so I haven't often bought them. I learned that leeks are a great cold tolerant crop so I decided to get into leeks here, I could grow all the leeks we could use (a lot) and I could have yet another cold tolerant plant to deal with our cold springs and short summers. I was thinking I would allow some of them to go to seed this year from the seed that I planted and then found that like other onion plants they won't seed until next year. Then I ran across a video of people cutting the leeks off above the base and eating the top portion and resprouting the left over piece and regrowing them into leeks... The light bulb went off... If this plant grew last year maybe it would go to seed this year without me having to wait a year to get my own seed... It looks very promising thus far...
This is a beet that I planted in December to collect greens from. I stopped collecting greens from it about 4 weeks back and am allowing to flower and go to seed now.
Last but not least in this experiment I sprouted the last bit of a celery stalk that we ate most of and I planted that in the garden. I am hoping that I may be able to get some seed from that as well, we will see.
I also planted some wheat from the bulk goods section at Winco and it seems to be doing well thus far. I also planted some lentils and beans inside from the bulk foods section as well and they are also doing great. The lentils are already flowering.
I ran across a video of a gal in India that was resprouting onion plants from the bottom cutoffs from the onions she was using. She then stated that they would go to seed and she would use the seed to grow more onions.. Seemed a perfect place to start as I use a lot of onions and generally a 50 pound bag of them stored away...
I have many times in past years planted carrot cutoffs and then collected the greens from them through the winter. In the spring have often moved them outdoors and allowed them to go to seed.
I quite like leeks but they are a tad expensive around here so I haven't often bought them. I learned that leeks are a great cold tolerant crop so I decided to get into leeks here, I could grow all the leeks we could use (a lot) and I could have yet another cold tolerant plant to deal with our cold springs and short summers. I was thinking I would allow some of them to go to seed this year from the seed that I planted and then found that like other onion plants they won't seed until next year. Then I ran across a video of people cutting the leeks off above the base and eating the top portion and resprouting the left over piece and regrowing them into leeks... The light bulb went off... If this plant grew last year maybe it would go to seed this year without me having to wait a year to get my own seed... It looks very promising thus far...
This is a beet that I planted in December to collect greens from. I stopped collecting greens from it about 4 weeks back and am allowing to flower and go to seed now.
Last but not least in this experiment I sprouted the last bit of a celery stalk that we ate most of and I planted that in the garden. I am hoping that I may be able to get some seed from that as well, we will see.
I also planted some wheat from the bulk goods section at Winco and it seems to be doing well thus far. I also planted some lentils and beans inside from the bulk foods section as well and they are also doing great. The lentils are already flowering.