Hi Everyone!! Dec 10, 2017
Thank you so much for your interest in the seed library! I lent out over 250 packets of seeds! That is amazing! Thank you! I hope that you were able to try growing something, and that you had some success. I would love to hear how things went if you have time to tell me! I took the seeds out of the box when it got too late to plant, but then someone asked me for milkweed seeds, so I put some of those at the library. They need to go through a winter to germinate, so you can plant them now or put them in the freezer for at least a month. There are 2 packs left if anyone wants them. I also put some garlic in the seed library. That you plant now (before the ground freezes!), and it will be ready to harvest when its leaves turn brown next August. Plant single cloves, and it will grow into a bulb with several cloves. It is pretty easy. When the leaves go curly in July, you cut that part off. Those are scapes and you can eat them. I put the cloves in the drop box. They are not huge, but free is good. The book library needed their space back, but then I got a whole bunch of seeds donated (thanks Steffi!), so they said I can keep a box in the library if it is over on the window sill by the plants. I was very happy about this! So it has been relocated, but is still in the Erin book library, at centre 2000. There is just one box as a drop box and I left the milkweed seeds and garlic in there. I will do a grand reopening in the spring with oodles of seeds! I hope! If you borrowed from the seed library when I was at Erin United Church, Ballinafad United Church, or Erin All Saints Anglican Church, the kind ministers there have said they will accept seeds for the library and pass them on to me, if it is easier for you to return seeds to those locations. I am at Erin playgroup 3-4 mornings a week, and at the library program Weds mornings. There is lots of time still to get seeds to me if you were able to collect some. Please dry them, and label them as completely as you can. It is great to know if they are organic or not, heritage?, grown in Erin?, as well as the variety and harvest date. Thank you very very much! Remember, you don't have to return the same type of seeds to me. You can find something else! There are some links to seed saving information on my website: www.erinseedlendinglibrary.weebly.com (Here! Last tab!) There is also going to be a speaker at an Erin Garden Club meeting early next year who will discuss growing plants from seed and also saving seeds at harvest time. I will send info when it is confirmed. And Maybe an Erin "Seedy Saturday" in the spring. I hope that you will borrow from the library again next spring whether you had seeds to return or not. If you have already given me some seeds, thank you very much, I really really appreciate it! Thank you very much for connecting with the Erin Seed Library. It is only a great idea if there are people using it!! Please take some garlic! It is getting late for that, I meant to send this a while ago! Have a great winter! Take care, Jen Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama
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