Plant Now With Winter Sowing!

Hi everyone!

Thank you all for such a great turn out to hear Paul Dickie teach us all about bees!  I will be sharing more information regarding his farm and some bee-related links as soon as I receive them.

wintersown.org

For more information on how to start your plants right now with winter sowing, see our handout What is Winter Sowing? and visit wintersown.org for oodles of helpful tips, hints and links.

As promised, I have posted the Perennial Order Form and Plant Overview in the right-hand menu.  Just click the picture to open up the document in Google Viewer.  In the viewer, locate the menu bar just below the filename.  Here you'll see a little picture of a printer (click it to print a copy).  You can also use the File>Download option in this menu to save a copy to your computer (and email it to friends or family to collect orders! :)  All orders are due back at our next meeting, Wed. Mar. 28.

John reminded us that we had a 10% off coupon on our seed packets from Allison at Halifax Seed.  He picked up a mushroom starter kit with his - how kewl!!

Bill Mercier mentioned that we will be receiving our berries so we will be owing him for what we ordered when they arrive (urg... I believe that was going to be in April?? - please email me if I'm wrong!)

Scroll down to see a bunch of new event announcements!!

See you again in March!
Val :)

Wed. Feb. 23rdHands-On Workshop: Winter Sowing

Recycle into mini-greenhouses!

Hi everyone!

We're hoping the weather will hold out so that we can have a full house at our next meeting.  Instead of just a guest speaker, we're going to dig in some dirt for a while as Wendy and Valerie guide us through some winter sowing.

Winter sowing at work!

We will be making our own mini greenhouses planted with some seeds to set outside now.

Once Spring hits, they'll grow where they sit and then we can plant them directly into the ground without hardening them off!

Exciting results!

This approach is a nice way to fill in your gardens quickly as these plants have a great head start and grow into gorgeous clumps.

What To Bring

Please bring a few supplies for this workshop:

• One or two of the following containers to convert to mini-greenhouses:
• 2L pop bottle
• 1L plastic ice cream container with plastic lid
• 1L plastic yogurt container with plastic lid
• 2L or 4L plastic translucent milk or water container
• Strong scissors (like kitchen scissors)
• An exacto knife or carpet knife or cheap old paring knife
• A Lee Valley garden marker (if you have one)
• Seeds you wish to plant (or share)
• click here for suggestions
• Halifax Seed has seed packages year 'round

We will be providing soil and water; mother nature will be providing the weather!

As always, we will have a box for donations to our local community food bank at St. Timothy's.

Reminder:
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