You can find an updated list of Paquebot’s seeds here.
Blogs, Catching Up
I have several posts to make over the next day or two as I catch up from the Christmas holidays. First, a few blogs and posts for your reading pleasure.
Mike of Subsistence Pattern has been a reader and commenter here for a long time. One of the things that really stands out about his blog are the discussions he cultivates among his readers. If you want to chat with him and other well known veggie bloggers, it’s a great place to go.
Laura of Mas du Diablo in France has for many years been an active participant in the Blogger Seed Network here, as well as actively blogging about her garden and cooking. I recently exchanged some emails with here, and got some links to new blogs she working on, showing off her paintings, more paintings and cooking. Imagine 4 blogs! I have a hard enough time keeping up with this one.
Leigh of The Extreme Gardener recently posts about her experiences growing TPS (True Potato Seeds). Great post!
New Links!
Sal just sent me an email to tell me about his new blog Sweet Rock Farm, and garden/farm on Gabriola Island off the BC coast in Canada. He has a great plant trade list, including a number of fruit trees and vines. He’s now been added to the Seed Network here. Have a look at his blog, and stop by and say hi!
A fried of mine here in Holland, Anita, has a expat blog. It’s called Greetings from Holland. I keep meaning to mention it. I don’t often write about Holland, and in fact Anita and I were recently talking about that. She thinks I should write more about Amsterdam and the Netherlands, instead of all the difficult subjects I address here, and she’s probably right. Anita on the other hand writes a lot about Holland, including things about really interesting places she visits. She has a lot of great pictures. If you want to learn something about living in the Netherlands, hers is the blog to visit.
Finally, Randy who lives in North Carolina has a blog called Randy and Meg’s Garden Paradise. He also has an associated blog about his carpentry projects called the Liberal Handyman’s Blog. He has some really amazing photographs on his blogs, and his carpentry projects look really interesting.
Garlic, Oxford and Next Year
Julieanne, who helped me organize the event last year in Oxford where Tom Wagner spoke, just made a post about growing the garlic I gave her last year. Wow! It all looks great, and I’m really happy it’s being grown in Oxford and shared with others there. She’s posted some pictures and notes here as well.
Alas I didn’t have time to organize an event in the UK this year, but maybe next year. If anyone has any ideas for speakers or anything else related to an event in 2011, please let me know, either in a comment here or private email.
45th Parallel Seeds
Earl Bassett of 45th Parallel Seeds just contacted me and asked to be added to the Seed Network here, which of course I was delighted to do. His website makes him look like an interesting person, a community gardener who donates some of his excess to local food pantries.
If you have seeds from your own garden and want to offer them to others, please let me know and I’ll be happy to add you to the Seed Network list too. The important rules are that your seeds must not be expensive (generally less than a few dollars per variety), they can’t be offered with the requirement of an otherwise large purchase, and you must be offering only OP seeds or clearly labelled homemade hybrids. In particular commercial hybrids are not allowed on the Seed Network. The purpose of the Seed Network is to help people find reasonably priced seeds they can grow, save seeds from and regrow, and they should be able to send a few dollars to you for this purpose and get some usable seeds.
If you wish to offer commercial F1 hybrid seeds on your website, they must be on a separate page, not referenced from the list of OP seeds and if someone contacts you via the seed network you should not promote the commercial F1 seeds.
If you have any questions about this or would like to be added, please get in touch!
I’ll add my 2010/2011 offerings, as soon as I get them organized and have some spare time.
