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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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