Sunday, November 29, 2015

Collect Your Own Seeds - It's Free

It's easy to collect your own seeds for next year. I try to collect as many types as possible, since seeds can be quite expensive, but also cause its the way to do it to be self sufficient.

A couple of days ago - on a rainy day - I prepared seeds for tomatoes and pepper. I took some seeds from store bought fruits.
I put the seeds onto pieces of kitchen towel to let them dry for a couple of days.
The reason I use kitchen towel is, that it dissolves easily. Seeds from tomatoes for instance, will stick to any surface, so when the seeds are dry, they are like glued to the surface. Thats okay, cause when using kitchen towel (or toilet paper) You can just cut or snip your homemade seeds off the paper.



I store my seeds in anything, as long as its made from paper. An old envelope, folded paper etc. NO plastic bags or similar, if the seeds are not dry enough, they will rot.  

Allways remember to mark the seeds, and there You go :-) Homemade seeds for the kitchen garden ready to use next year :-)




Sunday, November 8, 2015

Chicken House

We have picked up a playhouse for chickens today. We got it for free, as long at we picked it up ourselves, and to tell the truth, that was a hard job for the "boys".

We are very excited to start to prepare for poultry, but first we have to decorate the house and build the fence, so we have decided not to get chickens before next year. Theres a lot of other projects, that demands our attention before that.
But I can't wait until we are able to collect our own eggs, from poultry that have been living the good life.