As I write, another fierce weather front is passing through. Wind roars and rain lashes the windows, pressing and clawing like hungry sea creatures. The shift into autumn has arrived with a sudden, saturated force.
The seeds I received from Lucy are tucked safely indoors, waiting for the warmth of the new year. Despite the quiet in the seed storage, there’s been plenty of activity at Legge Towers on the Seedy Penpals front.
Mel and I have prepared a questionnaire for those who took part in the most recent exchange and we’ll be sending it out shortly. Mel has also been doing excellent outreach work in the Netherlands and beyond—her updates are well worth reading.
Here at home I’ve been saving seeds from several of our plants, especially the heritage varieties. We collected seed from the Dragon’s Tongue dwarf bean (formerly part of the Heritage Seed Library), from achocha and from our sunflowers. We also had a successful year propagating oca (Oxalis tuberosa) seedlings. Some of these seedlings might produce the next generation of oca that can form tubers earlier, without waiting until after the autumn equinox. Time and next season’s trials will tell.
Some of these saved seeds could well appear in my next Seedy Penpals parcel.
If you’ve posted an update about how your Seedy Penpals seeds have fared, feel free to add a link below so others can follow your progress.