On Wednesday April 17, I had the great fortune of visiting Pat’s beautiful garden and to my amazement, I saw that pots she was keeping in her “cold frame” were mostly covered in tiny specks of green. Turns out that at this time of the year, a cold frame can turn into a greenhouse of […]
Each time the weather warms up a bit, we all get the urge to “clean up” our garden so that they look clean and ready for the massive growing that’s about to start. Luckily, I always remember the reasons I SHOULD NOT clean up, and in the end, I just move branches that have fallen […]
On Tuesday, March 26th, I was joined by Nancy, one of our prolific seedsitters to talk about the basics of stratification, techniques we each use and how to pot up plants. Here’s a recording of our talk.
Well…. just when I thought that we had finished signing up new members, 15 new members joined us on the March 2nd Seedy Saturday held at Evergreen Brick Works. A big thank you to the organizers for a spectacular event. It was so busy that I never even had the time to take a picture. […]
A big thank you to all who sent me pictures of this year’s seed-sitting setups. We continue to be a group with diverse growing methods and several continue trying the jug methods. In one of our future zoom sessions, it would be lovely to talk about the various setups and compare success rates. Liz placed […]
Thank you to all those who attended the seedsitters meeting organized by David Suzuki Foundation on Sunday January 28th and the talk. I had the pleasure of meeting USS members Catherine, Maia (and Olivier), and Karanne. Danielle also signed up to join our group. Welcome! This was also a great opportunity to hand out our […]
Dear friends! We are continuing our 2024 growing season registration and I am looking forward to meeting this year’s seedsitters at one of our upcoming seed & supply distribution events: 1. Sunday January 28th, 1-3 pm EST Location: Carrot Common, 348 Danforth Ave. Toronto, ON M4K 1P1 This event is generously organized and hosted by […]
We are continuing our sign-up for the 2024 seed-sitting season. So far we have 14 members that have registered through this online form: https://forms.gle/RwzN9qQqRr5P1pA4A This year, we will be having two in-person ways for seed-sitting members to pick up their seeds, meet fellow growers and socialize a bit, so mark your calendars: Sunday, January […]
Dear friends, This past year has been a remarkable journey of friendship, collaboration and community for our group. Together we have grown native plants from seed, exchanged them with each other and donated half to 13 remarkable projects featured in this blog as well as countless smaller ones that never got the publicity they deserved. […]
Location: 14 Ruskin Ave, Toronto, ON M6P 3P8 This project at Perth JPS is yet another example of the wonderful outcomes even one passionate gardener can accomplish. You may recall Nancy’s lovely project at Shirley St. JPS. This is the second project she took on this past year. Nancy was placed as an Early Childhood […]