Tis the season for seed saving! I will be updating tips on how to collect and save your seeds over the next month … Here’s a photo of a seed saving workshop I recently hosted at the Lift Lock Community Garden. I am showing folks how to harvest arugula seeds. …. I am always too […]
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Harvesting Garlic
Yeah Garlic Harvest!! I harvested my garlic! Last fall I planted 25 bulbs of my dear friends bradley’s garlic & now I have 25 bulbs & close to 400 bulbs to re-plant. I love seed saving! It just makes sense. Some of the garlic cracked open. I guess I’ll have to eat these ones! tied […]
New To-Me Urban Seed Garden!!!
In an incredible and amazing stroke of luck, I just got offered the use of this wonderful space to grow in this season. i have always been blessed by offerings of great land to grow on, but they are always outside of the city. And for this full-time working, non-driving girl, that prospect was really […]
Growing Heirloom Seeds & Tomatoes Demo
Drop in & visit us anytime between 11-2pm – 165 Sherbrooke St. …. I will be bringing some of my little planties as well. Here is a shot from my lovely day spend at Avante Garden
Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Kingston
I had the great opportunity to participate in the USC-Canada Bauta Initiative –Regional Train the Trainer Workshop. Gathered in a small room at the fabulous Heirloom Seed Sanctuary Kingston learning from two pretty awesome seed gurus – Kim Delaney of Hawthorn Farm Seeds & Greta Kryger of Greta’s Organics Hoping someone will make one of these […]
Packing seeds & making buttons
Spending lots of time in my home office making buttons & packaging seeds getting ready for seed exchange and market season: Buttons lining up My old 8-track box is filling right up with packaged seeds! packing my striped cavern seeds
My tomato seed collection
I have been collecting tomato seeds for over six years! wow what fun it has been. this is my chronological collection. starting in the front with some seeds given to me, then my 2006 & 2007 collections in the tines, 2008 small box, 2009 box with red flowers, 2010 bigger box next to that, and […]
My seed bank
At this time of the year, I take my seeds out of the various cabinets they are stored in throughout my house, and go through them to determine what I should donate to seed exchanges, what should be planted, and of course package some to sell Of course, I couldn’t resist photographing my collection *For […]
My laboratory
The tomatoes, before I cut & squeeze out their seeds Pretty jars filled with all the beautiful colours of tomatoes coming out my garden, they are not so pretty in a few days when they are fermenting!
Cracked Tomatoes
Unfortunately all this rain & then hot sun tends to make tomatoes crack. Heirloom tomatoes are very thin skinned, and when the sun hits a wet tomato, it can cause the skin to split. One thing that you can do to help prevent this is pick them a little bit unripe. Look for a slight […]
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