Gardeners in Winnipeg seed up for spring, share planting tips as start of growing season nears
Beans, cantaloupe, cucumber and lettuce — that’s some of what Julia Meyers is getting ready to grow in her yard this summer, as this year’s mild winter has some gardeners itching for spring to come early.
“I love watching a garden grow and the small things you can do to take care of it,” she said.
“So we have a whole selection of things that are promised to be good for Manitoba.”
Hundreds of people went to the city’s Seedy Saturday event at the Millennium Library this weekend. It’s a nearly 25-year-old annual gathering that brings garden-growers together to swap seeds and planting tips.
“You always have a lot of seeds … So what a better way to do it than to share it with other people who don’t have them yet?” said Ellen Kolisnyk, who has a garden in her backyard.
The event is usually held around this time of year, though it’s the first time it has been held in downtown Winnipeg, said one of the event’s organizers, Laura Rawluk.
She said organizers are trying to get more people, especially younger people, interested in gardening.
For Rawluk, the benefits to it are clear, especially amid rising food costs: “If you can … freeze it, can it, dry it, whatever, you can be feeding yourself all through the winter,” she said.
Kolisnyk also sees the impact growing her own food has on her grocery bill. She said she’ll skip the produce aisle altogether in the summertime.
“In this day and age when groceries are so expensive, it’s really nice to be able to grow your own food.”
Jeanne Berard, who lives southwest of Winnipeg and has a garden, said a family of four could feed themselves for possibly three to four months on $50 worth of seed alone.
“With the rising cost of food, it’s a big advantage to sow a garden,” she said.
“Whatever you’re sowing there is gonna give you tenfold what you put in.”
It’s all about taking advantage of the space you have, added Rawluk, who lives in the downtown area.
“My lot is 33 feet wide by 129 [feet] long, and the whole thing’s a garden,” she said.
“Whether it’s perennial flowers, fruit trees, raised beds for vegetables, you can do a lot in that kind of space.”
Plant when the thyme is right: seed store owner
As gardeners seed up for spring, Dave Hanson, owner of Sage Garden Greenhouses in Winnipeg, is cautioning against planting too early.
“Just plan for the things that really benefit from the longest indoor sowing period,” he said on CBC’s Weekend Morning Show on Saturday.
That includes perennial herbs like thyme, oregano, parsley, and vegetables like peppers, shallots, chives and leeks, which can all be grown indoors while the temperature warms up before they’re transplanted outside.
But gardeners should hold off on other plants like tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and watermelon, he noted.
“We don’t want to have our tomatoes be monsters in the house. We want to think what needs the longer growing,” said Hanson.
Annual flowers should also wait to be planted directly outside in May.
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