PRIMSEED - Mineral Seed Fertilizer

Harvesting seeds from your garden for planting in the future is a great idea for all kinds of reasons. Most obviously, it’s an economical way to keep your garden going from year to year without having to constantly purchase new seeds. Seed saving allows you to share (and trade!) with your friends and neighbours, and it keeps the gene pool of food plants alive and healthy. The actual process is not difficult, although there’s a little more to it than can be fully explored in this article.

In some parts of the country, one of the best-kept secrets for good pasture performance may be a forage legume called birdsfoot trefoil. Trefoil, sometimes just called “lotus” because of its Latin name (Lotus corniculatus ), is a high quality forage plant that’s adapted to most parts of the United States.   It performs well on soils ranging from somewhat poorly drained, acidic soils to dry, alkaline soils and is hardy across many different climates, from the frigid northern parts of the United

Ron Sweet posted a question on the Vermont Pasturelands Network that we think other folks probably have. It got a good answer from On Pasture author Dan Hudson Hello! I bought a couple of bags of red clover seed, and I was curious about the best time and way we should seed some of our weaker paddocks.  My thought was to just pour it in a bucket and look for spots that could use some better growth and sprinkle seeds there by hand.  Is it better to wait until after grazing season is over or do it

We’ve been trying to grow and offer seed for Cosmo lettuce. But we have only a little bit of experience with saving lettuce seed on our own farm, so it’s challenging to get a good seed crop of a large enough size. We let the lettuce head up, then bolt, becoming too bitter to eat, then flower, and finally make seed. (Lettuce plants become a lot bigger when they bolt and flower, so before they bolted we made more room by harvesting every other head for eating.) Although it’