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SlowLiving Series: Growing Your Own Part 2
Saturday May 3rd 1-3pm:
This 'SlowLiving Series' of fun & informative workshops is provided to reconnect to nature, your roots, food & beauty.You do not have to take #1 to enjoy workshop #2.
Live more sustainably, more connected, slower, deeper. We will start off with an overview of the farm, with an inside/outside tour, weather permitting.
We will be working with plant babies, seeds & blooms.Transplant your seedling started at workshop #1 (if you attended but not necessary) at the April/May workshop to take home to your garden. A continuation of learning about growing your own food & flowers, how, what, when & whys. We will discuss flowers as well as food & everything involved. You will be more confident & armed with knowledge based on years of experience to head into the growing season!
Enjoy the entire process, seed to plate/vase. Light refreshments will be provided.
Some of the topics covered:
seed starting, soil blocking, supplies needed, heat mats, grow lights, soils, fertilization, early starts, etc
- Extending the seasons
- Planning a garden
- Maximizing yield
- Using vertical space
- Harvesting
- Selecting the best varieties
- Do I Start Seeds or Purchase Plants?
- How to Start and Grow Transplants Indoors
Snapdragon ‘Royal Bride’
(Antirrhinum majus) Sweetly fragrant at 3’ tall, the blooms are white with a slight cream centre, really long blooming & a fav with pollinators. A wonderful long stemmed cutting flower, stunning in arrangements, blooming from June through September.
Towers of glowing blooms over glossy dark green foliage add a vertical statement to summer gardens or bouquets.
Check out my Instagram video!
Strawflower – White
(Xerochrysum bracteatum)
Ivory-white flowers have an opalescent, heirloom quality that’s great for wedding work. Tall, well-branched plants produce pure white, double flowers 2–2 1/2" across that start out with a slight blush.
A versatile and textural addition to the cutting garden, profuse bloomers for fresh or dried arrangements.
Pollinators love them!
Strawflowers “Apricot Mix”
(Xerochrysum bracteatum) annual
This mix is absolutely gorgeous! Every florist who see them immediately orders these beauties!
Long lasting, distinctive papery bracts resemble petals in shades of peaches & apricots. Magnets for pollinators.
Lovely flower heads are produced from spring to autumn. Stunning in bouquets fresh & dried.
This everlasting serves as food for various larvae of lepidopterans, adult butterflies, hoverflies, native bees, small beetles, and grasshoppers.
Tomato -‘Pruden’s Purple’
PRUDENS PURPLE : A personal favourite! If I had to choose one tomato this would be it, grown here for many seasons, it never disappoints. It’s not purple, but rather a deep red-pink, solid meat beefsteak type with exceptional taste!
Tomato – ‘Chocolate Pear’ Cherry Tomato
70 days. Expect huge crops of simply gorgeous “black,” pear-shaped tomatoes over a very long season. Chocolate Pear has the rich tomato flavor that has made heirlooms so popular! A great variety for CSAs and market growers. Red, overlaid with swirls of varying hues of green or brown. Very unusual and decidedly one of the best! Delicious and gorgeous!
approx 40 seeds
Tomato – ‘Hahms Gelbe’ Micro Dwarf
This unusual, German heirloom, micro dwarf variety produces legions of yellow cherry-sized fruit on the cutest little plants 6-10" tall. Unlike most dwarf varieties this one is tasty, not bland.Translated from German this is Hahms Yellow Cup Tomato. Perfect for container gardening. Kids love these tiny plants! so fun! Bright yellow, juicy, and a slight fruity taste. Produces early. Determinate. (60-65 days from transplant)
approx 30 seeds
Tomato – ‘Opalka’ Heirloom Paste
Meaty with few seeds and unlike most common paste tomatoes, 'Opalka' actually has a good flavour, making sauces and pastes even better. Expect great yields of 3x5" massive, solid bull’s horn–shaped red fruits with dry texture. Dries well. While some tomatoes falter during hot dry spells, Opalka produces consistently.
This heirloom tomato is amazing to behold and difficult to find. If you grow tomatoes for paste, this is the one. Polish heirloom brought by the Opalka family to Amsterdam, NY, around 1900. A shy seed producer, it consistently gets dropped for that reason by commercial enterprises, so we’re happy to be able to offer it!
Approx 25 seeds
(82 days) Open-pollinated. Indeterminate
Tomato – ‘Plourde Heirloom’
Beautifully perfect, round red, firm fleshed fruits with an exquisite taste! A nice all purpose tomato. These are quite a compact plant and perfect for smaller spaces, containers and raised beds! A perfect slicer and a compact plant - priceless!
Grown since 1925 in Saint-Alexandre de Kamouraska, Quebec, by Aurélius Plourde and his family. Handed to Jeannot Pelletier and then to René Paquet. The latter cultivated and selected it before introducing it in Seeds of Diversity Catalogue. According to the man who saved this Quebec heirloom, "The Plourde is an old beauty who forgot its own identity ."
Indeterminate, approximately 1 m. tall regular leaf foliage. (80 days from transplant) Rare tomato variety
Approx 30 seeds 
Tomato – ‘Russian Saskatchewan’ Dwarf
This old heirloom tomato has been grown by Darlene MacMillans's family for many years in Colfax, Saskatchewan and originally came from Russia. The very compact dwarf plants (12-18”)(30-45cm), are ideal for growing in containers and produce nice tasting, small size,(saladette),red tomatoes that are perfect for salads. A nice early season tomato! Determinate. Start seed indoors 6-8 weeks before planting out. (60 days from transplant)
APPROX 25 SEEDS
Tomato – ‘Sart Roloise’
Sart Roloise tomato is a newer variety that has quickly gained popularity. Very unique and distinct! Stunning colour of a stained glass masterpiece, bursting with sweet, fruity and complex flavor with just the right acidity. It is a cross of the White Wonder tomato, which lends pineapple sweet notes, and the Baby Blue tomato, which explains the deep indigo blue brushstrokes on the shoulders! There may also be bluish blackish vertical streaks on parts of this beautiful tomato.
Beautiful to see and eat!
