Permaculture Tips

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When cutting up autumn’s stored pumpkins for soup or roasting, and you’ve saved some seeds for spring planting, prepare some more seeds for eating – did you know they make a tasty snack? Soak seeds and attached pumpkin flesh in a bowl of water for an hour or so, to loosen the flesh. Pour this into a metal colander and rub the seeds into the bottom to separate the remaining flesh from the seeds. Discard any seeds that haven’t been pollinated properly – these are flat,