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| Two raised beds grown from seeds offered by Leon County Library |
Each spring and fall the Leon County Library, in cooperation with the UF/IFAS Leon County Extension, offers vegetable seeds appropriate for the season which can be checked out at the library. These small packets usually contain only 10 seeds each which doesn’t seem like enough to grow anything useful. However this is plenty to grow a beautiful garden to feed a family. This fall the list of seeds included:
- Arugula from Seed Savers Exchange
- Cylindra Beets from Territorial Seed Company
- De Cicco Broccoli from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
- Scarlet Nantes Carrots from Seed Savers Exchange
- Vates Collards from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
- Lacinato Kale from Seed Savers Exchange
- New Red Fire Lettuce from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
- Peione Parsley from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
- French Breakfast Radishes from Territorial Seed Company
- Bright Lights Swiss Chard from Territorial Seed Company
Master Gardener Jeanne Breland has undertaken a project to plant seeds of each variety offered by the Library each season in the VegHeadz garden for the last several years. Depending on the weather, marauding rabbits, and other factors, her growing efforts have been mostly successful, but this fall her edible results are particularly productive and beautiful and fill two 4’ x 8’ raised beds. She planted seeds for radishes, carrots and beets directly in the garden The other varieties she started at home and transplanted seedlings into the garden after they had been growing about four to six weeks. You can learn more about starting seeds and many other gardening techniques from the North Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide in the left sidebar under Garden Resources.
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