Something often overlooked by food gardeners is seed storage. I use to buy a packet of seeds and when they aren’t used up so I’d just fold the top over and store them in the laundry – come next year when planted out the germination rate was very low, so why?
The main enemies of stored seeds are high moisture and high temperatures and together the worst combination just like my laundry and like most storage places here in the tropics. I guess the best way is to use up all you buy. If you start saving your own seeds (which saves a lot of money) you’ll need to store them properly to ensure maximum germination rate when planted out............................................................
Post has been added to New e-book; barry@barrydaly.com.au
"Growing Herbs, Fruit & Vegetables in a warm climate"
$10 Book contents Packed full of first hand knowlege, 24 Chapters include;
Chapter 1 Let's Get Started
How to set up and maintain your food garden, to ensure success
Chapter 2 Rotating Your Veggies
Why rotating your veggies works
Chapter 3 Pest Control & Balance
How to minimise the use of pesticides
Chapter 4 Soil Guide & Building Your Soil
Get to know your soil – you'll be glad you did
Chapter 5 Storing Seeds
Improve your success rate with properly store seeds Here's How
Chapter 6 Tastes Better Home Grown
Why is that?
Chapter 7 Green Manure / Beans
Maintain fertility like the ancient Romans
Chapter 8 Snake Beans Dwarf & Climbing
Great Addition to a tropical Garden
Chapter 9 Keeping Chickens
Why they're such an asset to your garden
Chapter 10 Okura
Easy to grow, not to mention the health benefits
Chapter 11 Soya Beans “Eda Mame”
Eaten the Japanese way taste great and good for you
Chapter 12 Paw Paw or Papaya
30 Kg of the nutritious you have to have one in your garden, this is how to grow it
Chapter 13 Capsicum in the tropics
There's nothing like watching capsicum fruit form in your garden pure joy
Chapter 15 Corn
Corn is easy when you know how
Chapter 16 PH Testing
How to measure your soil PH and what is PH
Chapter 17 Growing Bananas
Some great tip on the best backyard bananas
Chapter 18 Dolomite & Garden Lime
Which is best to use why and how
Chapter 19 Egg Plant
Grafting onto wild egg plant for extended growth
Chapter 20 Mignonette Lettuce
Open leaf lettuce like mignonette is the best lettuce for warm climates
Chapter 21 Growing Tomatoes From Garbage
Great tomatoes from garbage, learn how
Chapter 22 Growing Herbs in the tropics
Yes it's possible see what to grow and how
Chapter 23 Some Working Gardens
Some gardens from people who have a lot of experience, Italians, Greeks, and Bougainvillea.
Chapter 24 Take Out The Misery & Bring Back The Muck
A final word
About Me
- Barry Daly
- I'm a photographer, and urban farmer now living in Melbourne. Bringing knowlege on how to grow food in this region through experienced growers and my trial and error. Urban farming has been growing rapidly - worldwide more than 800 million people are engaged in urban agriculture to some degree. Urban farms not only deliver fresh produce the same day it is harvested, with lower transportation costs and the use of less fertilizer and water, they can absorb a significant amoumt of solid and liquid waste, reducing urban waste disposal problems and costs.
2 comments:
Just read your article in the Cairns Weekend Post. So glad their is finally someone out there helping me grow a vege patch in the tropics (Cairns). My veges either drown from the rain or fry from the sun. Plants labelled 'full sun' usually mean full sun in places like Syd not Cairns. I look forward to using your help to suceed in harvesting a crop this year.
Thanks,Let us know what works in your food garden.
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