Author: Sayeh

Take a look at the many inspiring projects we had at RH McGregor PS

Our second project this year is the nature walk garden at Yorkview PS

Check out our first project for 2024!

Saturday, May 11, 2024 – Location: 550 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4W 3X8 The dynamic trio of Farha, Linda and Karanne did a fantastic job of talking to visitors about our group as well as teaching them how to divide and pot up seedlings. Our season has been off to a flying start thanks to […]

On Saturday May 11, 2024, from 10am-2pm, Underhill Seedsitters will be at Evergreen Brick Works, at 550 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON M4W 3X8   Our three volunteers: Farha, Karanne and Linda will be talking to visitors about our seedsitting activities and showing them how to pot up seedlings. Each visitor will get a free seedling of a native […]

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 […]