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Check Out Our New Seeds!

Hello Gardening Friends,

The wait is over! Sydney’s Green Garden products are now available at The Bookstore at Fitger’s and at Mount Royal Fine Foods here in Duluth.

Once again we offer four different container kits that are sure to fit your gardening needs. Each kit contains seeds, a rain gauge, planting guide, and growing containers that are designed to withstand heat, wet, and cold much longer than your typical growing container like those found at discount stores. Container gardening kits we offer: 12-pack, 6-pack, 3-pack herb, and 3-pack salad

We offer the following seeds ( * denotes new this year ):

Beans: Blue Lake, Jade II, Kentucky Blue, Kentucky Wonder Pole, Purple Queen Bush, and Rattlesnake Pole
Beets: Cylindra Long Red and Touchstone Gold
Carrots: Bolero, Mokum, Nelson, *Rainbow Mix, and *Tendersweet
Swiss chard: Sydney’s Swiss chard Blend
Cucumber: *Bush Pickle, Fanfare, and Tasty Green
Herbs: Sweet Basil, Cilantro, and Bouquet Dill
Lettuce: Black-seeded Simpson, Oakleaf Loose Leaf, Parris Island Romaine, Super Red Romaine, Sydney’s Loose Leaf Gourmet Salad Blend
Peas: Mammoth Melting Snow, Oregon Giant Snow, Sugar Ann, Sugar Snap, and Sugar Sprint
Pumpkin: Big Max and Casper
Spinach: Bolero, Menorca,*Space, and Unipack 151
Squash: Sebring Yellow and Spineless Beauty Summer

Now is a great time to plan to grow your own vegetables – be sure to pick up your SGG vegetable seeds and kits at one of the Duluth locations listed above. Or, for your shopping convenience, place your order here on our website and have them delivered right to your door.

We welcome your questions:  email us at grow@sydneysgreengarden.com

Your Friends at SGG

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Container Gardening Workshop Update

Hi,

Last night’s community ed container gardening workshop was a success!  People asked lots of questions; it was a lot of fun.

Two more container gardening workshops are scheduled at Whole Foods Coop – (April 26, 6 pm at the 4th Street location – April 28, 6 pm at the NEW Denfeld location).  Hope to see you there – be sure to register early as it usually fills up fast.

Container gardening kits and seeds are now available at the Bookstore at Fitger’s.  Later this week you can get your kits and seeds at Mount Royal Grocery.

We’ve had unseasonably warm temps and it puts us in the mood to work the soil and plant some seeds – ah, we have to wait a few more weeks though!

Have fun dreaming about gardening,

Your friends at Sydney’s Green Garden

 

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2016 Workshops

Hi there,

We’re preparing for another growing season at Sydney’s Green Garden – soon we’ll get seeds and kits packaged – so check back.

Scott is offering container gardening workshops again this spring:
Tuesday, March 15 – 6-7 PM – Ordean East Middle School
Tuesday, April 19 – Whole Foods Coop – 6-7 PM
Thursday, April 21 – Whole Foods Coop – 6-7 PM
Be sure to sign up soon – his classes fill up fast.

Check this site often so you know when seeds and kits are available, as well as possible additional container gardening workshops.

It’s only January, but it’s okay to dream green – dream fresh veggies.

Stay warm!

Your friends at SGG

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Cold weather testing

I went on vacation from April 6 to April 15, 2012. I left the snowmobile trailer gardent out during that time and the temperature dropped below freezing many times and got as low as 24.7 degrees. On Monday April 16 we had snow which covered the containers . It reached a low of 28 degrees. I put the trailer garden out on April 17. All of the spinaches, lettuces, and peas are still good. the carrots and potatoes have not come up yet.

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Snowmobile Trailer Garden Planted March 18, 2012

You can start your garden early by planting cool weather crops in containers on a snowmobile trailer.If it gets below freezing, just roll the trailer into the garage and roll it back out when the temperature gets above freezing. I planted potatoes, spinaches, lettuces, carrots and peas. I have taken the trailer in twice in the last two weeks. I will be harvesting spinach before many people have planted. Its a great way to get an early start on gardening!

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Article from the Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank Newsletter Winter 2010

Fighting Hunger
One Garden at a Time
Each year, thanks to your support, our food bank
rescues and distributes over 320,000 pounds of
produce for our region’s non-profit agencies and
families in need. But it never seems enough.
Use at our region’s emergency meal programs (food
shelves, soup kitchens, and shelters) and our food
bank’s own direct service programs have increased
37% in the last two years making it difficult to keep
up with demand.
In April, entrepreneur and Duluth resident Scott
Vesterstein approached our food bank with a unique
idea. “What if we helped people grow their own
produce?” he asked. With a donation of twenty
container gardens by Scott and his Sydney’s Green
Garden business our partnership began.
Gene Johnson McKeever, one of our Nutrition
Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS) participants
was one of the first people to receive a garden kit and
soil donated by Engwall Florist, Garden and
Greenhouse.
“I grew my own food right in my backyard,” she said.
“It supplemented my income and I had a sense of
accomplishment, success and happiness. It was a
good project.”
Gene, like many people in our region find it expensive
to eat healthy purchasing fresh produce on a limited
income. “I have especially saved money on spinach
which I eat weekly,” she explained.
She said that Scott’s enthusiasm for gardening was
“contagious.” “It’s rather fun and my garden didn’t
take much time at all,” she said. “My daughter-inlaws
are now also inspired to grow their own gardens
next year and provide more vegetables for their
children.”
If you are interested in sponsoring an individual or
family like Gene next spring, please feel free to
contact our food bank (218) 727-5653 or
email info@northernlakesfoodbank.org.
For more information about container gardening and
Sydney’s Green Garden
www.sydneysgreengarden.com.