Hello Gardeners!
Happy
Days! I have stocked all the seed library drawers with hundreds of seed
packets. In fact, over 800 new packets pf seeds are waiting for lucky
gardeners to check them out. Here's a short summary of what the seed
library offers:
Tomatoes - 43 varieties
Beans - 12 varieties
Peas 8 varieties
Lettuce - 11 varieties
Native plants - over 25 varieties
plus many, many annual and perennial flowers and other vegetables and herbs.
So now is the time to check out the seed library.
A
big thank you to all who donated seeds and helped package these 800+
packets! Also, when you are planning your gardens, please add space for a
few extra plants that you harvest for the seeds. This year we were
fortunate that Territorial Seed Company donated 141 packages of
vegetable seeds and Guerney's gave us a $25 gift certificate which we
used for 6 packages of pea and sweet pepper seeds. These packages were
further divided into the packets we offer at the seed library. But it is
unlikely we will get similar donations next year so
we need local seed donations as well.
Plant an extra tomato or lettuce plant or a half row of peas or beans
for the seed library. Remember--we only want seeds from
open-pollinated/heirloom variety of plants.
I spent this
week updating the seed catalog with the new varieties of seeds and
stocking seeds. I reorganized the seed catalog a bit. All the easy to
save vegetable seeds (tomatoes, peas, beans, lettuce and sweet peppers)
are grouped first in the catalog and then follows the difficult to save
seeds in alphabetical order. I hope this will make it easier for you to
find what you are looking for.
Also, all the difficult to save
seeds are in the bottom 2 drawers of the seed library. We decided not to
repackage the new commercial packages of seeds and just placed them
directly in the drawers. If you only want some of the seeds in the
package there are empty envelopes in the box of the table you can use to
hold the seeds. The seed library wants to stress saving the 'easy to
save' seeds and so we decided not to use our limited resources
repackaging the' difficult to save' seeds.
Upcoming Events:
I hope to see you at one of the 2 seed starting classes I'm teaching in March:
Saturday, March 3, 2018 10:30-11:30 Seed starting class at the Maplewood library
Saturday, March 3, 2018 1-2pm Seed starting class at the White Bear Lake library
Happy Garden Planning!
Pam
Here's a photo, compliments of Michelle Bruhn, from our last seed packaging event on Jan 29th.
