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Welcome to Gardeners Off World, your weekly round-up of all that’s fresh in space gardening. 

Snoopy has been going into space since the Apollo program, and now he’s tackling the brave new world of streaming video. “Snoopy in Space” is available on Apple TV+ and follows Snoopy as he pursues his dream of becoming an astronaut. There’s even an episode where Snoopy and Woodstock tend a garden on the ISS.

“I try to be a responsible dog owner, but no one ever tells you what to do when your dog sneaks into a secure government facility so he can try to be an astronaut.”

On the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch have been harvesting mizuna leaves from the Veg-04B garden. Half of the crop was set aside for crew tasting, with the other half tucked away in the science freezer. It will be returned to Earth for analysis. 

Earlier this month, GoffW watched as a spacecraft designated NG-12 blasted off to the ISS. It was carrying the first zero-g oven, which is set to bake the first cookies in space (and uses just 84 watts to do it!). That momentous event has happened yet, but it’s getting closer.

Also on that flight were tomato seeds, which the First the Seed Foundation (FTSF) have sent aloft as part of their Tomatosphere program. The aim is to recruit the next generation of astronauts, scientists and engineers that will develop the technology for farming in space.

“Since 2001, the award-winning Tomatosphere™ program has done just that. An estimated 3 million students in Canada and the United States have helped researchers gather data to address these questions while learning about science, space exploration, agriculture and nutrition. Tomatosphere™ provides students with two sets of tomato