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Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Newsletter

Cold Frame Plantings

seedlings nestled into a cold frameIf you garden below the 40th parallel, you probably still have enough daylight to make it worthwhile to plant hardy greens in a cold frame for early spring harvest. If the winter continues to be mild like last year, you may be harvesting your own baby greens by Christmas. That is just what happened with our 2011 cold frame trials. We planted cress, cilantro, spinach, tatsoi and arugula on November 28, and were harvesting baby greens by New Year’s. Give these hardy greens a try:

Fall Shipping–Garlic Bulbs, Perennial Leeks & Native Ginseng

garlicThe season for fall bulbs is winding to an end. Don’t miss your chance to start your own easy to grow, regionally adapted heirloom garlic and perennial leeks. We’re providing our newly updated Onion and Garlic Growing Guide (PDF) with this year’s orders.

Also still available for fall only, help preserve an endangered native woodland plant by growing your own shade-tolerant ginseng from seeds or roots.

We have limited quantities still available of some varieties of fall-shipped bulbs:

Softneck Garlic:

Asiatic Garlic:

Hardneck Garlic:

Samplers:

catalog 2013

Our new 2013 catalog will be in the mail in early December, at which time we’ll be updating the webstore with new and returning varieties. Meanwhile, we are adding sold-out varieties from 2012 back to the webstore as they become available after seed cleaning and germination testing.

Donation Program

SESE seed donations

Over the past year, we’ve donated seeds to more than 160 worthy organizations. Learn about who receives SESE seed donations, and how qualifying organizations can make a donation request >>

Events See our events page for updates >>

Southern SAWG Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms Conference
Little Rock, Arkansas
January 24–26
ssawg.org

Virginia Association for Biological Farming (VABF) Annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference
Richmond, Virginia
February 8–9
vabf.org

Georgia Organics 15th annual Conference and Expo
Atlanta, Georgia
February 22–23
georgiaorganics.org

Organic Growers School 19th Annual Spring Conference
Asheville, North Carolina
March 9–10
organicgrowersschool.org

 

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Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
P.O. Box 460, Mineral, VA 23117
Phone: 540-894-9480 Fax: 540-894-9481