New seeds planned for our next event June 1st!

Here is one of the new seeds you can expect to see at our next event -
Purple Sage
https://www.rareseeds.com/blog/post/how-to-grow-salvia-sage

New seeds planned for our next event June 1st!

Here is one of the new seeds you can expect to see at our next event -
Chinese Pink Celery
https://www.rareseeds.com/blog/post/how-to-grow-celery-and-celeriac

This celery is great in soups and the seeds are a wonderful topping to a potato salad! The pink is intensified when dried.

Bonus - ladybugs are more likely to pick a garden with plants from the Apiaceae or Umbelliferae family to make their nurseries. Praying mantids seem to be attracted to them as well. Both are great natural pest killers (although be aware that mantids will also eat ladybugs as well as aphids).

New seeds planned for our next event June 1st!

Here is one of the new seeds you can expect to see at our next event -Ruellia simplex
This plant is drought tolerant, which is why it is a popular landscape plant. Please read the information from the U of A before planting.
https://apps.cals.arizona.edu/arboretum/taxon.aspx?id=1012

Learn more about your Longevity Spinach Slips (Coming May 4th)

https://www.greendreamsfl.com/online-store/Spinach-Longevity-Gynura-procumbens-4-p225804067

How do we get the seed packets we hand out? The answer is, we make them. (And I gather most of the seeds from my backyard.). The scarlet sage seeds, for example, come from my yard. As I was taking these pictures, a hummingbird landed a few feet away and patiently waited for me to finish so she could drink from the plants.

Here’s what Odyssey says about our upcoming event.

Almost a ladybug - ladybug pupa.

I may look creepy, but I am a friendly bug - actually a baby ladybug! (Ladybug larva)

Look closely! I may be yellow, but I’m not an aphid. These are ladybug eggs.

I planted heirloom cilantro seeds a few years ago. I have never had to buy seeds since - I just put down some of the seeds I saved the year before and I get new plants.

Each year that I’ve had cilantro, dill, parsley, or celery - I have had ladybugs use my garden as a nursery. The benefits are I get to see ladybugs (which make me smile) and my aphids are gobbled up.