While we dream of bigger gardens in our future tha we could possibly grow food for others, we are definitely enjoying the benefits of a small garden... less to weed, water and less varieties means no cross pollination and the ability to test our seed saving skills.
Our green beans have been amazing this summer, and such a kid pleaser. A walks through the cucumber tunnel to the green bean patch and doesn't have to step foot into the street. He eats them raw and harvest them for us. We don't even have to ask- this did make is a little difficult to let some get to maturity for saving, but we have succeeded. Green Bean seeds saved.
I can't stress enough the importance I think seed saving is. Thinking about government and seed company controlled food supplies is definitely a huge nightmare of mine. As the water supply has been essentially destroyed via pollution as has the fish supply, we need to preserve what we can. Down with GMO's! And hooray for Seed Savers Exchange. We always try to save tomato seeds, and even if you don't grow your own beauties, you can pick up a beauty at the market marked heirloom, scoop out the seeds, put them in water, cover with a coffee filter (to keep out fruit flies), and wait for them to start molding. Then rinse them and dry. We have sucessfully saved garlic and scarlet runner bean seeds, this year we are trying out cucumber, green beans and perhaps peppers. Oh and marigolds are easy, sunflower seeds, calendula and chives.
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