Seeds for growing

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There are many ways of collecting seeds instead of buying seeds from the Plant Shops, Garden Centre or King’s Seeds (NZ), by saving your money. Each time I grow vegetables, cut up for our meal preparing, and I collected seeds to keep for future use of growing in the following season. Sometimes I want to get something different kind of vegetables or fruits where the Fruits & vegetable shop does not have one. I ordered the seeds through King’s Seeds (NZ).

First of all, to dry the seeds onto the paper towel or plant straight into an empty eggshell or egg carton filled with dirt and grow inside. An eggshell or egg carton is useful for recycling back into the ground quickly. Currently, I am growing kumara slips and planted out in the large pots inside the greenhouse last weekend. Kumara slips do not like frost, they prefer full sun and warmth, just like pumpkins.

Inside the greenhouse, there are several ginger shoots and turmeric shoots growing in the pots. Note I put scrape newspapers over the soils and this helps the earth in the containers to retain moisture and warmth through winter inside the greenhouse.

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