A Mountain of Seeds

By Phyllis Odessey

When it gets to the point, that you don’t know what you have and what you don’t; it’s time to take action.

As the garden has grown, so has our seed supply.  We have saved seeds and we have also bought seeds.   The temptation to try a new variety of tomato or bean is just too great.

We finally had to do something about the growing amount of seeds we had. All those little packages from Seed Savers, Johnnys and High Mowings, began to add up.  Where were the  Chioggia Guardsmark beets or the Rouge d’Hiver lettuce or Japanese Black Trifele tomatoes.  We had to paw through boxes of packages to find the variety we were looking for.

Finally, we got fed up.  We needed our own seed library.  With the help of our wonderful maintenance man, Oswaldo, we designed a shelf system and he built it.  Now we know what we have, but we still want more.

Come by the garden and take a look at what’s growing!