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Plankl
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June 21, 2010, 09:45:33 AM |
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How? Simple shelter for rain protection? Clay pots in earth? Any ideas...?
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Emerson White
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July 27, 2010, 02:22:53 PM |
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I think the OP was asking about how to protect your seeds in nature.
I think you could take a glass mason jar into nature and keep it there effectively. A blown egg might be the ticket, unbroken end up, up on a little bit of free draining debris inside of a hollow cavity in a tree.
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Nature will always move towards a balance, unfortunately part of that process is that high concentration of vegetables in your garden going to pests and disease striking one or more trees in your perfectly balanced stand of trees.
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Dianne Keast
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July 28, 2010, 04:56:14 AM |
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Yes perhaps I do not quite get the question.
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soil
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July 29, 2010, 11:23:06 PM |
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are you talking about collecting and drying plants for seeds? collecting seeds wild? storage?
each would require a different method.
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Plankl
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August 06, 2010, 11:58:48 AM |
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Yes, i'm talking about storing seeds in nature. Different kind of seeds... veggies, wild, cereals, ...
Emerson, nice idea with an egg. Mason jar is also a good one.
I like the idea of using clay pots, anyone have a tip or idea how to use them? For now i'm thinking of doing some simple shelter and then storing clay pots inside. But i'm not sure about freezing.
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rockguy
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August 06, 2010, 02:07:46 PM |
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"Seeds" is a big category. 
If the seeds are dry, freezing usually won't harm them. It does depend on what seeds tho, some seeds need to be stratified, that is chilled to 40F for so many hours so they can sprout when spring comes.
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Joel Hollingsworth
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August 06, 2010, 06:41:20 PM |
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Most seeds keep better in dry conditions.
Using a glazed pot and including some fresh charcoal as a dessicant might help a lot.
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"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.
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