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Seed Saving
Program at Library
On Thursday August 7th at 6:30 p.m. Gary & Mildred Malott
will give a presentation at the Green ville Public Library on gardening
and saving seeds as part of the Growing Harvest Seed Library
project. Just come up to the third floor Meeting Room to see
their display of vegetables and seeds and to learn anything you want to
know about non-GMO produce and heirloom seeds.
As part of this project, our Library has set up drawers near the
Reference Desk that contain seeds that patrons can borrow for personal
planting. All that is asked is that after harvest, a few seeds are
returned to the Seed Library for use next year. They must be from
the plants grown from the borrowed seeds - or a donation of other
open-pollinated, heirloom seed varieties.
Heirloom seeds means they will produce plants the next season which
will be the same as the parent plant. This is the traditional,
self-sustaining practice that gardeners and farmers have used through
the centuries. Saving seeds gives a grower an invaluable
resource.
Gary & Mildred have many years of experience - “most of our lives.”
They moved to the Palestine area in 1978 and set out many large garden
plots on tillable wetland that is split by a road and a creek and
“is not flat.” Their largest garden was 60 x 160 feet with others
at 30 x 50 feet.
They grow 6-8 different varieties of potatoes, 175 tomato plants of
different kinds, and their famous “turkey crawl” greenbean which was
brought up from Tennessee - and just happens to need tied up on 200
feet of trellis. They save seeds from everything and will share
their techniques. “We make it simple.”
Be prepared to hear about saving seeds from tomatoes, cantaloupes,
watermelons, beans; how to grow asparagus, radishes, lettuce, peas,
onions, garlic, dill, fennel; and gardening techniques like tepees,
t-poles, and fence. And anything more! It should be a fun
and educational meeting and the Library is grateful to the Malott’s for
their willingness to share their valuable expertise.
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