Categories: Seeds & Seedlings

Six Seeds to Love and Plant

By Published On: March 27, 2013
Six Seeds to Love and Plant

Green-Pumpkin-Seeds

My early spring to-plant list always includes pumpkins. A garden without pumpkins must be like committing spring planting heresy. It’s just not right. And of course they have to be accompanied by loads of other squashes.

Lupin-Seeds

Lupines are a hardy bunch from seed to flower. Like an independent teenager, they tend to strike out on their own, volunteering in places of their own choosing. (Places that tend to be inhospitable and far from their initial starting point.) Their seeds must be some of the most beautiful, I think in part because of what is waiting inside, the beginnings of eye-catching but humble flowers and foliage.

Pre-treat the seeds with a bit of roughing up.

Scarlet-Runner-Beans

I think I could convince nearly any child to barter and trade using scarlet runner beans as currency. I know my brother could have swindled me out of my allowance by offering these beans as trade. Sunflower seeds might have been the only other seed to compete with them.

Sunflower-Seeds1

Sunflower seeds, sunflower sprouts, sunflowers. Perfect by design. Simple.

Chard-Seeds

I sometimes think seeds are taken for granted, like these chard seeds for instance. I’ve planted plenty of chard in my life but it wasn’t until I mixed them up with all sorts of other seeds that I was suddenly struck by them. I was teaching in a school garden and planned to introduce seeds and plant life cycles to the children with a seed sorting activity. I took several different varieties of expired seed packets, emptied and mixed them in a mason jar for the coming lesson. When I spread handfuls out in front of the kids in little, mosaic piles on top of black construction paper the students quickly separated the larger beans and corn. Then, all of a sudden here was this seed – a chard seed. It is so prehistoric looking compared to the others. Like the vertebra of a long lost creature.

Calendula-Seeds

And, finally, prehistoric #2 – my beloved calendula. Gotta have it.

Five Reasons to Weed or Not to Weed
Garden Planning and the Five F's

Listen

Grow what you love podcast
Grow what you love podcast on Spotify
Grow what you love podcast on itunes
Grow what you love podcast on Google Play
Grow what you love podcast on Stitcher
Grow what you love podcast on Tune In

Buy The Book

Buy the book

Special offers

Begin Composting Today With SubPod

Newsletter Signup

Newsletter



Yes, you can tell me about your other products and services! Privacy Policy

Archives

Disclosure

Pass The Pistil is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and other affiliate programs such as Etsy, affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn fees by advertising and linking to curated affiliate sites.

 

About the Author: Emily Murphy

I’ve learned there’s something wonderfully powerful in the simple act of growing. Here, in our gardens, we can repair ourselves and our plots of earth with our own two hands. GROW WHAT YOU LOVE and GROW NOW!

Related Articles

2 Comments

  1. Jeavonna May 5, 2014 at 9:18 am - Reply

    Seeds are amazing.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.