Author: Sayeh

Two things essential to getting your seedlings to grow are warmer temperatures and moist conditions.
In this post I will show you how my seedlings are doing and also share how you can get your Project Swallowtail sign.

It may come as a surprise that indoor gardening involves A LOT of washing pots for me. While the majority of our gardening is going to take place exclusively outdoors, for those who are interested in expanding their seedstarting indoors, I thought I would share a few tips. Washing pots is the easiest way to […]

When I reached out to my neighbors about creating a seed-sitting group, I was delighted to meet Christine who has a passion for protecting the environment and promoting sustainable lifestyles through her instagram and consulting business: Buying Thyme. As a member of Project Swallowtail’s Underhill Seedsitters, she has documented her winter sowing, and spread the […]

With the warming temperatures, I have noticed that my trays have been drying out. Since having moist conditions is absolutely critical to germination of seeds and growth of seedlings. I have been watering my trays daily. To my delight, today I saw the first tiny, tiny seedlings in my trays.    Keeping the soil moist […]

Spring has arrived and our gardens are springing to life. Little signs hold big promises in my garden. I know that some of you may be surprised to learn that I don’t “clean-up” all the leaves and debris on my garden beds, but I have many great reason not to touch anything until June and […]

Now that you know about the ease of seed-sitting, you may be asking yourself if there are more difficult ways to grow native plants from seed. Yes!!! and you can be sure that I love those methods too. You can replicate the same cold/moist stratification process that happens over winter in nature by keeping your […]

Well, I’ve had a chance to tally up some numbers and you may be interested to learn some interesting statistics! We are 50 members strong with the following 5 groups making up our membership: 17 members from the Underhill Neighborhood Group form the largest group 12 members from Garden Club of Toronto are growing plants […]

In the summer of 2021, with the help of two amazing teachers, Ms. Osborne and Ms. Stermasi, I led a group of students from Leaside’s eco-club in preparing and planting a native plant garden in the roundabout directly in front of the school. The garden now has 38 varieties of plants, mostly generously donated by […]

Since as members of Project Swallowtail, we want to increase urban wildlife habitat, the most effective way to do that is by planting plants native to our area. The most cost-effective way of getting our hands on those plants is by planting seeds.  Seed-sitting, a term created by the Project Swallowtail team, is a really […]