I’m going to start this post with kudos to the amazing team at Lawrence Park Collegiate. As you may recall, last November I met with the eco-club and distributed seedsitting kits. Students and staff took them home and used the winter-sowing method to germinate them and return them to the school after Spring break. On […]
How are your seedlings doing? Many have been reaching out with pictures so I will be sharing those with you. Thanks to Pat, Veronica, Nancy and Linda for sending in pictures of their seedlings! Pat sent in the first set of pictures and showed how she was growing milkweed seedlings indoors under her grow lights […]
About a week ago, I decided to begin warming up my seedlings to help them get a jump on spring. Last year I had great success from creating a “greenhouse” effect for my seedsitting shelf by stapling plastic onto the frame, while creating two overlapping plastic flaps in the front. Around the same time I […]
Lawrence Park Collegiate students move their winter-sown pots to the greenhouse and check out our finalized list of growers and varieties!
Sign up to attend virtual meetings with seedsitters from all over Ontario. Project Swallowtail is organizing several drop-in sessions for seedsitters, including our own group. These meetings are a great way to meet all the other amazing people who, as part of our network of volunteers, are germinating seeds for various projects such as restoration, […]
Pictures of seedsitting setups!
Check out the list of what we are growing together!
Thank-you to everyone who signed up! I have already started seed distribution. If you are NOT a part of this group but still want to take part in seedsitting, please come to the public event on Saturday January 28. Scroll down to see the details at the bottom of this post. Lawrence Park Collegiate seed-sitting […]
We are halfway through registration for our 2023 seedsitting group and now stand as 19 members (+me!) in our neighborhood group. I already have one member in each school but will be signing up additional members as I visit the 3 schools that have expressed interest. You may be interested to know that last night […]
Watch the latest video on our seedsitting work and sign up to join our group if you are located in Ontario.