Save Your Seeds

Save-Your-SeedsPorter County Master Gardeners will gather to prepare seeds for the Seed & Bulb Exchange portion of their 11th Annual Gardening Show. You’re invited to join them and learn how to clean and preserve seeds.

Tools and packaging materials provided, as well as, seed heads and pods from a variety of plants. You may also bring your own saved seeds and learn how to clean and preserve those.

Donations of seeds and bulbs to the annual Exchange will be accepted as well. Meeting times and places will be at the Westchester Library Service Center, 100 W. Indiana, Chesterton, IN on Sept. 3, Oct. 1, and Nov. 5 from 1:30-4:30 and Valparaiso Public Library, Room A, 103 E. Jefferson, Valparaiso, on Sept. 20, Oct. 19, and Nov. 1 from 9 a.m. to noon.

The 11th Annual Gardening Show will be held on Sat., Jan. 25, 2014, from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m. at the Porter County Expo Center, IN-49 at Division Road in Valparaiso. Info at http://pcgarden.info/gardening_show.html.

Photo: Suzanna Tudor, PCMGA member, shows her granddaughter, Phoebe Tudor, how to gather dill seeds in her home garden in Valparaiso.