I was waiting this moment many months. I just collect my first Eruca sativa (rocket or arugula) seeds from the plant I grew in my city garden. I had the Eruca sativa plant in a big flowerpot from November.

The seeds I sowed were from one Greek NGO. They have a small seed bank and they send me free some seeds. But now I must save my seeds for the next years. My plant don’t have so many seeds, they send me 3 times more seeds than the seeds I save from my plant but it’s ok, it’s my first seeds anyway.

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Last night I start reading one interesting book of Suzanne Ashworth “Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners” where she had wrote in the first pages about the increase of biodiversity and heirloom varieties in the United States because of immigrants.

USA is known as a country of many immigrants. People from every corner of the earth moved in the great land of opportunities and continue to migrate until today.

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I order to bring me some pea seeds to sow in plot the next week (yeah! I will probably go to my plot). I ask to bring me normal seeds and not hybrids so I can keep seeds the next years.

The seeds were not in package. They sell pea seeds from one big sack so you can buy as much you want. Now I have half kilogram (500gr) from these pea seeds. The cost for 500gr was 2 euro.

The problem is that the seeds have this pink thing as you can see in photo and I have no idea what is this.

Do you know what is this?

We have a lovely sun and very good weather in Greece these days  and I think the gardening season just start here. So… I went out the morning to see my containers and seed trays.

The Creole Red garlics have beautiful green sprouts already and I plant more garlics today. It’s my first year with garlics in containers. I plant the first gloves in Octomber and I was not sure how much time I must wait until I can see something green in my container.

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I want to write about this because it’s something strange for me. Some days before I tried to clean my basil seeds and I start sneeze. My basil seeds had the same effect in me like smelling pepper. I have no idea if this is normal or not.

Do you sneeze when you clean your basil seeds?