Gone To Seed

Over at the Guardian Online there’s a really beautiful gallery of electron micrographs of seeds and pollen from Kew’s Millenium Seed Bank Project. They look a lot like those glow-in-the-dark critters that you see in films about life at the bottom of the ocean – more space-age than organic.
They Seed Bank Project is very cool [...]

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Ripening

It was my birthday yesterday – a whopping 29. It’s kind of a random number, neither here nor there, but with any luck wisdom and insight will start to trickle in, and make up for the inevitable decay. Hah! Listen to me, I sound like I’m turning 50!
One of the lovely pressies I got was [...]

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Saturday Stuff

It’s been a busy day, and one of those that holds the promise of good things to come – books collected, bulbs and seeds bought. I like days like this, because they exist beyond just the 24 hours. I know that I’ll get to plant the stuff I bought another day, and enjoy them come [...]

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This Just In…

I’ve just come across the most fantastic South African organic veggie seed suppliers, which makes me a very happy lady. For too long, I’ve been lusting after the heirloom tomatoes, beans and squash seeds that the gardeners on some of my favourite blogs have been growing, but no longer! Thanks to the good folk over [...]

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