Seed Circle Resources
Hello friends, here is a list of the guides and galleries we've published so far, to help you get the most out of your seeds and season. Just click on the links for the ones you'd like to view.
Please note, Inland guides are typically for a warmer climate, all other guides can be considered Coastal, cooler climate appropriate.
You will see multiple guides for each species sorted reverse-chronologically with the most recent guide at the top of each section. They are color coded for added legibility: JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC.
Community Photo Galleries—Please add your own Photos!
📷 General | 📷🥔 Potatoes | 📷🎃 Winter Squash | 📷🌱 Common Beans (Dry and Snap) | 📷🌱 Runner Beans | 📷🍅 Tomatoes | 📷🍈 Melons | 📷🥬 Kale | 📷🌽 Sweet Corn | 📷🌽 Flour Corn | 📷🥒 Summer Squash | 📷🍈 Chilacoyota | 📷 Moschata | 📷🏵️ Calendula
General Guides
- Embracing Ancestral Wisdom in Modern Gardens🌳
- Spring Planting – Tips from the Community Call
- Join the Adaptation Gardening Facebook group
- How To Identify Squash: Maxima, Moschata, & Pepo
- PDF: Seed Saving Resource Guide
- 🎞️Video & companion guide on how to trap gophers
- 🎞️Video presentation from the Seed and Scion Exchange
- 🎞️Video presentation to the Fort Bragg Garden Club
Squash: Summer & Winter
♦ General
- AUG Squash Seed Saving
- JUL Squash growing - Low fruit set, pollinators, & harvesting
- JUN Observations on squash seedling survival
- MAY Squash Growing - Early spring tips
♦ Pepo
♦ Maxima
♦ Moschata
♦ Ficifolia
- AUG Growing chilacayote: prioritizing exceptional plants & fruit
- JUN Getting going with Chilacoyote - Cucurbita ficifolia
Corn: Sweet & Flour
- AUG Time to Shuck? Sweet Corn Harvesting Guide🌽
- JUN Thinning sweet corn to promote diversity
- MAY It’s time to plant your corn!🌽
- APR Planting Sweet Corn
- APR Planting Flour Corn
Beans
♦ Runner Beans
♦ Dry Beans
- JUN The Ancient Origins of Beans🗺️
- MAY Planting & Thinning Your Beans🌱
- APR Dry Beans
♦ Snap or Green Beans
Kale
Cucumbers
- AUG Let’s enjoy the fruits of our cucumber harvest!
- JUL 🥒Cucumber selection tips
- JUN Thin your cucumbers to support the strongest plants!
- MAY It’s time to plant your cucumbers!🥒
- APR Cucumbers
Watermelons
- MAY Watermelon Growing🍉
- APR Watermelons
Sweet Peppers
- APR Sweet Peppers
Melons
- AUG 🍈Melon Guide: Harvesting and Saving Seeds
- JUL Time to celebrate the strong melon seedlings🎉
- MAY It’s time to plant your melon seeds!🍈
- APR Growing Melons
Potatoes
- AUG Potatoes: When to harvest, what to save
- JUN 🥔Potato Selection over time, with Curzio Caravati
- MAY Growing Potatoes from True Seed – Transplanting and Hilling🥔
- APR Potatoes
Tomatoes
- AUG How to save tomato seeds
- APR Coastal Tomatoes
- APR Inland Tomatoes