#heirloom plants

[shadyufo]

Look at my perfect little baby gourditas!

These are Tennessee spinning gourds aka dancing gourds and this is about as big as they'll get. They are mainly used for crafts and as game pieces. As their name would suggest, they can make good spinning top toys.

Here's a neat video about them.

Once mine get mature and dry out I'll try taking them for a "spin!"

[breelandwalker]

Seed Suppliers for Spring

If you're anything like me, the second the calendar flips to a new year, you're already looking ahead to the spring planting season. Whether you're growing from seed trays or just picking up plants from your local nursery, gardening is a fabulous hobby that can be both fun and productive.

For my fellow green-thumbs, here are some awesome garden supply sites where you can get everything from tools to seeds to live plants shipped directly to you. Most will mail you a free catalog if you request one and offer plants that can be grown in containers as well as in-ground gardens.

Burpee Seeds and Plants

Ferry-Morse Home Gardening

Gardener's Supply Company

Gurney's Seed and Nursery Co.

Harris Seeds

Seed Savers Exchange

If you're looking to do something a little different, consider trying an heirloom vegetable variety or an unusual flower. Remember to check your growing zone, soil type, and space requirements before purchase and good luck!

EDIT: Removed one recommendation, see comments. (Thanks everyone for letting me know, I had no idea!)

[poop-me-a-flower]

Heirloom daffodil ‘Argent’ blooming EXTREMELY late. I think this has to do with how late I planted it… hopefully it will fix itself next season.

Very fragrant. The bloom is pretty small. I’m sure that has nothing to do with my having lost it in a closet since November and then finding and finally planting it in February.

[wildrungarden]

7/10/24 ~ Grafted Brandywine update. Gonna be real upset if a hornworm ends up getting this one 🐛

[emmaklee]

(via In This Online Group, People Share Examples Of Botanical Wonders And It's Soul-Refreshing (50 Pics) | Bored Panda)

corn varieties, Peruvian Andes

[thatwritererinoriordan]

[snekdood]

so I found this really cool website that sells native seeds- and you might be asking me "snekdood, haven't you posted an entire list of websites that sell native wildflower seeds that you're going to add on to soon?" and yes that's true, but that's not the kind of native seed im talking about rn.

see, on my quest to find websites that sell native wildflowers, I came across this dope ass website that sells seeds that have been farmed and harvested by ntv people traditionally, i'll let the website do the talking:

so anyways this is the coolest website ever. you can find the wild relatives of chiles on here called chiltepines, you can find different colors of corn and cool squash's, and every seed from whichever farm has it's own lil origin story written about it. you can also find other veggies here that are already commercially available to help fund and support this organization. as well as there being a cool gift shop with a lot of art made by different native folk from all around as well as cookbooks, jewelry, pottery, weavings, and clearly plenty more:

as well as a pantry?? with premade soup mixes??? and i really want to try them now??????

anyways I think its worth snoopin' around bc I'm almost positive you'll see something you think is cool (oh also if you happen to have some seeds passed down from ur family too and ur also native they seem like they would gladly help produce more)

[autismmydearwatson]

You know what (breaking my silence on tales of the empire) I'm not bothered by the idea of Morgan Elsbeth coming up with the TIE Defenders, god forbid women do anything etc, I'm more annoyed at the implication that thrawn would just not credit her for that, because that would be EXTREMELY out of character for a guy who is known to rely on a posse of underdog women

[grimae]

they don't want to you to know about this but you can turn one plant into many plants by drying and storing its seeds

[petula-xx]

Late Winter/ early Spring is party time for the Yellow Podded Peas!

[mildmayfoxe]

avocado toast btw. if you even care

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Picked up corn, bean, and squash seeds for the front garden. Can't wait to get these ladies set up.

[tilbageidanmark]

Old German, an unknown yellow variety I definitely didn't sow intentionally, Paul Robeson, Brandywine True Black, Tlacolula Ribbed, Zapotec Brown Flesh, local heirloom I don't know the name of, Black Beauty, Auria, Beauty Lottringa Orange, Voyage, Charlie Chaplin, Phil's One, Purple Smaragd, Thai Pink Egg and Barry's Crazy Cherry.

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[wildrungarden]

6/29/24 ~ First lil grafted Cherokee Purple 🍅

[katiajewelbox]

This is the Candy Roaster Squash (Cucurbita maxima) flower and fruit. This squash variety has been bred by the Cherokee tribe in the Southeastern USA for generations before it became popular around the world. Squash blossoms are generally BIG flowers that develop into even BIGGER fruits! This is a "male" flower with stamens bearing pollen which pollinators such as bees which will carry to the female flowers on a different plant. Female squash blossoms are the ones that develop into fruits, and their pistils often have a branched appearance.

[landwriter]

dear diary i had a marvelous birthday roadtrip wherein i

had a terrible sinus infection

drove eight hours then waited for a boat for four then saw my best friend’s new place for the first time four hours after that and immediately fell asleep in her bed

hiked for three days (trees trees trees) and swam in a glacial lake

sauna’d

got surprised by a delicious cake while topless (see above)

identified a DOZEN plants for the first time from the trip (and ate so many berries)

bought a great deal of pottery and a nice linen dress

surprised family with a visit <3

saw juvenile barn swallows (v silly beaks)

had old silverware fobbed off on me and decoded the makers marks to learn i have 208-year-old teaspoons! thanks ancestors

drove 1735 kms

got to come back and see home with the fresh peepers you only get when you’ve gone away for a little bit