The Baxter County Master Gardeners will host a presentation by Master Gardener Corinne Caroselli to help the community level up their gardens by sharing tips on saving seeds. The event will take place October 25 at 5 in the Knox Community Room at the Donald W. Reynolds Library serving Baxter County. These tips will help people regrow their favorite plants year after year and share those plants with friends and family.
If certain growing conditions are not met, some saved seeds may not sprout or may turn out different from the original plant. Ceal Gasiecki gives some examples of these seeds with more information being available at the meeting.
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There’s some seeds, for instance, that need the cold of the winter to break the shell on the outside of the seed. So you could, if you didn’t do something to mimic that, you wouldn’t get the seed to sprout. And the whole point of saving the seed is to save something that you can regenerate again in the next season.
Hybrid seeds. A good example is tomato plants. There are many tomato plants that are hybrids. And hybrids, when you save the seeds, you’re not guaranteed to get the same tomato you got last time. And of course, the whole purpose is to mimic what you had before. So, there’s a few things like that that need to be brought out so that you succeed in what you do.
Gasiecki says anyone can learn gardening once they know these rules.
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It can be frustrating with gardening if you do things that are counterproductive, then you don’t want to continue to do them, and you say, oh, I’ve got a black thumb. Nobody’s got a black thumb, and none of us have a green thumb. It’s just educating yourself so that you ensure your success, and that’s all we’re trying to do, is that if you want to do this, come join us, we’d love to have you.
The presentation will last nearly an hour and no registration is required. The Master Gardeners encourage sharing seeds by donating them to the little seed library located by the patio door at the Baxter County Library. The Baxter County Library is located at 300 Library Hill in Mountain Home.
For more information, visit www.BaxLib.org.
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