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healingheartdogs · 29 days ago

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I left some tops of plants I had let go to seed (a couple different lettuces, radishes, and mustard greens) that I harvested to save seeds from in open paper shopping bags outside to give the bugs that were on them time to skedaddle before I brought them inside to pick all the seeds out to save them but yknow... ADHD, out of sight out of mind lol so I forgot about them for a few weeks and sure all the aphids and squash bugs left, but in that time a bunch of tiny little spiders moved in. Which is still better tbh (I'm honestly fine with spiders especially little ones but I absolutely DETEST squash bugs, and the aphids I just don't want to spread to my indoor plants) but also inconvenient. Guess I will be wearing gloves while I seed harvest and doing my seed harvesting sitting outside instead of inside.

#i spent most of yesterday collecting seeds to save too #but from my basil plants in my herb garden out front #i read that basil seeds were easy to collect because you just rub them between your fingers #and the seeds fall out and then you can easily blow away the chaff to separate it from the seeds #I DID NOT FIND THIS TO BE TRUE #i mean sure in theory its easy but when you have a pile of HUNDREDS of tiny little flowers that you have to do that to it is not easy lol #and i cant do more than one or two at a time because i dont have enough finger strength to rub them apart well if i do more than that #so i was picking one or two flowers off at a time to get 3-4 seeds to fall out from each of them and then trying to carefully separate them #which is also not as easy as people make it seem because those seeds are teeny tiny and barely weigh more than the chaff does #sat in the kitchen on my stool doing that for like two hours yesterday #only got 1/3 of the way through the flowers i collected from ONE JUST ONE of my chinese sweet basil plants #and i still have flowers from two mammolo basils and another two chinese sweet basils and a thai holy basil and a thai sweet basil to do #i did get like hundreds of seeds from that little bit of chinese sweet basil i did yesterday though so like #safe to say i will never need to buy basil seeds again lol #which is nice esp for the thai holy and chinese sweet basil because those seeds were kinda pricey #'pricey' for seeds being 50 seeds in a $3 packet lol which is not a lot on its own but when you're ordering like 50 packets of seeds #all around that price or a little bit more ($3-$5) that adds up quick #hence why i am doing so much seed collecting this year to minimize rebuying next year #also to see what hybrids i get since i did not keep everything separated to avoid cross pollination intentionally #esp the pumpkins i really want to see what i get from those seeds if they got cross pollinated #rambling in the tags again whoops my adhd meds kicked in an now i cant stop typing or talking lol #did you know theres a tag limit? like it will let you keep adding tags but after some point they stop showing up after you post?#learned that thanks to adhd med related tag rambling on my other blog a while ago lol

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