Spring Seeds Sale, with all proceeds to Climate Kids programs like YouthWorks creating a permanent pool of jobs for youth. Their Green Team can design your Flower and Food Garden, creating an eco-friendly landscape.  Youth helping seniors can use our HoursBank basic life security (bank hours spent helping someone in need, receive help later in life). Some are using Climate Kids fundraisers to save for a bike, or build a bike trailer big enough for a lawnmower or rototiller. Some are powered by batteries and electric motor with a handlebar thumb-throttle, something their parents are setting up by buying bulk with friends. Others are saving for land, using Invent Camp to buy land with friends at a low cost per person. How do you plan to gain basic life security? A garden may help.What the problem? Food prices are escalating as California wells run dry. With climate change, northern countries have to produce a lot more. This is a great way to get into planting, growing and selling.

We're using Veseys.com fruit, flower and vegetable garden seeds. They’re the best! Long-time seed producers with deep knowledge, Canadian. Get ahead of the game by planting seeds early as windowsill starters. This is their catalogue. Safe & secure payments for Climate Kids are run through the Trenton News by etransfer to [email protected]. We gather enough people for a bulk order, then buy, it comes here, and we deliver to you in Trenton and surrounding area. Place your order by adding your name and what you want down (e.g. 6 A and 4 GG) at the bottom of this page

[A] Hummingbird Vertical Garden. An explosion of colour and blooms that you and hummingbirds love to visit. Literally, the sweet nectar of flowers, hung in a saddlebag kit, complete with rope and bag (8.5” x 21.5”), planting and care instructions. This special seed mix has Dwarf Sweet Pea, purple and scarlet Morning Glory, Coleus Rainbow mix, the ‘Sparky’ Marigold and multi-colour Nasturtiums, a ‘Jewel Mix’. $12

[C] 2.25” Jiffy starter pots. Get started early this year in a natural pot made of pressed peat. Genius! Peat is the perfect environment for root development resulting in stronger plants with better later yields. Convenient and easy to handle, get a 50 pack for just $6.

[B] Butterfly Mix Saddlebag Garden Kit. Butterflies love bright orange, red, pink, blue, yellow and gold flowers. If we lose butterflies, and we are, we lose one of the best parts of Nature. Do your part to change this around. This 8.5” x 29” saddlebag drapes over a railing or fence and comes complete with planting and care instructions for the best blooms. $12.

[D] Cherry Tomato Hanging Garden. Live in an apartment with no garden? No problem! Hang this bag on a balcony or sunny wall and get a great regular crop of delicious cherry tomatoes. Great for healthy snacking or fresh salads. Lush hanging foliage in a reusable (8.5” x 21.5”) bag hung on rope, with instructions. A lot of goodness for just $12.

[E] Two Sun-loving Saddlebag Gardens, each 8.5” x 29”, with Pansy and Lolelia mixes that will hang down far past the length of the bag. In the fall, when the flowers are done, wash out the bags and let them dry for storage and re-use next spring. $14.
[F] Colourful Nylon Trowel, Fork and Cultivator. Ideal, tested hand tools, long-lasting, tougher than plastic and far nicer on your hands than metal. Washable, with an inlaid cushioned thumb rest to avoid fatigue and blisters. Best quality/price around, $10

Why fuss over what goes where? Just lay down a seed mat and let it work it’s wonders. You can lay it anywhere, cut it to any shape. The seeds are always perfectly distributed. Spread a bit of soil over the mat, just enough to hold it down and water daily. Away it goes!
Seed mat [G]. Shady Annual Tree Ring. 17” wide by 5’ total length. Dramatically improve the area under trees and help retain moisture. A Canadian mix of under-tree shade loving plants, some flowering and others with amazing colour patterns in the leaves. With care instructions. Beautiful! $10
Seed Mat [H]. Sun Loving Tree Ring. 17” wide by 5’ total length. Just place the mat “this side up” water, and keep it moist daily until the plants sprout, take and bloom. All shades of pink to violet to purple, yellow to range to red and white. For trees where the sun shines on the trunk. With care instructions…mats are the easiest! $10
Seed Mat [I]. Honey Bee’s Lunchtime Flower Garden. A complete mix of beautiful hardy flowers with everything they love. Stunning colour, enticing fragrance. These special varieties make the life of a honey a lot easier. Let’s face it, mown grass is an ecological death zone. We need more flower gardens if we’re going to turn things around and make the world survivable for our kids. Buy the gift of life for only $10
Seed Mat [J]. Butterfly Attractor. Do you like fireworks? Well, this butterfly flower garden when in bloom is a continuous explosion of petals and colour! One mat 17” x 5’ long contains over 800 seeds. Contains both annuals and perennials so you’ll have one thing or another in bloom. Cornflowers, cosmos, marigold, zinnia, coreopsis and much more. Collect seed in the fall to keep it going or increase your garden. Full sun or partial shade, this mix will thrive in most types of soil with little care. A real planet-saver mix for the ridiculously low price of $10.

Seed Mat [K]. English Cottage Garden. This is a classic. Quaint, charming flowers mingled amongst shrubs, ornamental grasses, roses and edible plants. In total, 21 varieties of cottagey annuals and perennials that bring romance right to your front lawn. One mat 17” x 5’ long contains an incredible wealth of genetic biodiversity desperately needed for your future. Original value, infinite, marked down this spring to $10.
Seed Mat [L]. Easy Care Children’s Flower Garden. Even if you’re the one that ends up watering it, kids love getting involved, hands in soil, knowing it’s their garden, the one they planted. It really is quite remarkable how a seed so tiny you can barely see it grows so quickly into something so beautiful. Baby’s breathe, cornflower, cosmos, zinnias and even daisies! A mat 17” wide is a garden just deep enough to work in …but it’s 5’ wide! Imagine running these across the entire front of your house, or along the full length of the walkway. Oh, yeah! $10 each.

[M]. Fresh Green Salad Garden Seed Packs. Think of how much you pay for a head of lettuce. Ridiculous! Lettuce grows like weeds! Add radishes, onions, cucumbers and tomatoes and you’ve got lunch ready and waiting all summer. That’s 5 seed packs, with planting instructions on each. Worried because you’ve never tried it? No fear, that’s what seeds do. You put them in soil, add water, and let the rain fall. Give it a go, just $10.
[N]. Super-yum Herb Garden Six-Pack. Sweet basil, brilliant. This plant loves having it’s leaves picked off. The more you pick, the more it sprouts more leaves! Dill, oregano, parsley and thyme. Perfect windowsill or box plants too. And if you don’t use it all, just dry it for the winter. Yep, that’s where the herbs you use in soup come from. $10.

[O]. Vegetable Garden. How much do they charge for just one zucchini? Well, you’ll get a lot more than that. And you’ll know where it came from, organic. But this is a seed Six-Pack, including green beans, peas, squash, carrots and beets. The beet greens are good too. $10. That’s right, $10. If you think about all the work needed to collect and dry seeds – and that they’re guaranteed fresh from the last crop, that’s amazing. Just $10.
[P]. Juicy Tomato Variety Garden Five-pack. Beefsteak, gotta have it. Roma, best for sauces. Brandywine, for the colour. Ace 55, yellow to orange. And for continuous picking, large red cherry tomatoes. Tomatoes naturally resist pests and stay strong with just a bit of watering. A good rain does most of the work for you. In the fall, you may have too much. They can go straight into the freezer skin on, or sauce & freeze for pasta later. $10.

[Q]. How much do you spend on a cup of coffee? How much more valuable is the sight of a hummingbird visiting your deck in the morning as you look at the wildflowers? This is a seed mix you can spread anywhere, enough for 150 square feet. All of Nature is under stress and desperately needs your help. Hummingbirds recognize and visit people and will even try to signal when the feeder needs filling! Befriend a hummingbird today by planting this incredible mix of Foxglove, Cosmos Sensation mix, Indian Blanket, Tree Mallow, Lanced Leaved Coreopsis, Shasta Daisy Alaska, Tall Mixed Cornflower, Purple Cornflower, Globe Gilia, Annual Mixed Phlox, Catchfly and Tall White Alyssium
 

[R]. Sunflower Variety Collection $10. A range of sizes and colours in 5 individual seed packs. Early Russian, Giganteus, Autumn Beauty, Teddy Bear and Velvet Queen. Did we mention Giganteus? Will the Velvet Queen rule? Oh, the drama you can buy for just $10. (Girl in picture not included).

 

[S]. Continual Fresh Sprouts Two Tray System. Start the seeds in the bottom. Grow them greener up top. Eat the top ones, bring the new starters up, begin new seeds in the bottom. Continue! Great for salads, soups & stir-fry. Unique durable system uses water surface tension for perfect water all the time. Perfect way to maximize vitamins, minerals and natural enzymes. $20.
[T]. Summer Savoury Cookbook. Spiral bound 168 pages with over 250 tested and proven recipes, vege and fruit dishes, dips, dressings, smoothies and stuffings. Fantastic photos and a great gift, if you can bear to give it away. $15

 

[U]. Broccoli Seed Sprouts. A healthy add to any salad or sandwich. Famous for its antioxidant content, broccoli sprouts contain 50 times the cancer-fighting compound that’s found in mature broccoli. Easy to grow and ready in just days. $6.
[V]. Alfalfa Seed Sprouts. Tasty crunchy sprouts add flavour and nutrition to any meal. Alfalfa sprouts have a mild flavour, moderate crunch, are simple to grow and helps build blood iron levels. $6

[W]. Strawberries. Strawberries. Strawberries. Pick your own. Red, good straight-up fresh, or make preserves, jams, pies. They like full or part sun and about 12” spacing to grow best. $20

[X]. Reverse strawberries. The oldest strawberry variety called the pineberry has white flesh with red seeds and a pineapple flavour! A must try for only $18.