Purple Cherokee Tomato Selected As This Year’s Lambton One Seed

Packets of Free Purple Cherkee Tomato Seeds Are Going Fast at Lambton County Library Branches.

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The Tomato is this Year’s One Seed Selection by the County Library System that has offered a Seed Library for Several Years Providing A Variety of Produce and Herbs Seed, Along with One Variety Each Season It encourages All Local Residens to Try Growing at Home.

“They are Going very Quickly,” Said Vanitia Campbell, County Library Public Services Coordinator for Youth Programs and Outreach, Said About the Purple Cherokee Tomato Seeds Available While Supplies Last.

“We had to restock quite a few of our libraries already” Just a Few Days after the featured seeds were made available, she Said. “I WOULD SAY GO OUT AND GET Them Sooner Rather Than Later.”

The Purple Cherokee Tomato is described by the library as a highly productive heirloom, yielding large pink-purple fruit with a sweet, smoky flavour.

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“We Always Try to Pick Something that is Maybe relatively easy to grow” and easy to save seeds from, campbell said.

While Tomatoes Meet the Easy Seed-Saving Criteria, they “May be Slightly More Challenging to Grow,” She Said.

“If you want to get a full season out of the fruit, you do have to start these ones inside a little bit early and then go through the process to transplant them outside later in the spring,” Campbell Said.

This Year’s One Seed Selection Provids “A Low-Pressure Situation” for those who may have Wanted to Try Starting Seeds Indoors, She Said.

“We’ll provides you with something that is interesting and a little bit different maybe but has a really nice flavour,” campbell said. “You get the luck, with some free seeds, to practice.”

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Use of the Seed Library “has only grown over time,” as has interest in the annual one seed program, campbell said.

“SomeWhere Between 2,500 and 3,000 people Typically participate in one seed,” She Said.

Seeds from the Seed Bank Are Free To Library Cardholders, Who Are Welcome to Try Seed Saving At The End of the Season and Return Them.

“We don Get Many,” Campbell Said. “That’s ok. It’s an option for people but it’s not something that’s always easy. ”

The Seed Library Began Several Years Ago at the County’s Camlachie Branch and One Seed was launched to walk individuals through How to grow one type of vegetable each year.

“If you’re participating in one seed for the past oven years, you know how to do beans, peas, zucchini and now we have adding tomatoes,” Campbell Said.

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“People are slowing building up their Confidence to Hopefully Have a Full Garden.”

Information about the Seed Library can be at the country library’s website, www.lclibrary.ca/en/borrow/seed-library.aspx

Along with seeds, The Library Offers Workshops and Presentations as part of one seed, included:

• Coldwater Kitchena Documentary about A Culinary Training Program Inside A Michigan Prison, Will Be Shown March 27, 6:30 pm, at the Sarnia Library theater.
• Adult DIY: Vintage Seed Packet PlanterTuesday, April 1, 1 pm at the Petrolia Library
• Grow Your FoodApril 2, 6:30 pm at Sarnia Library, About the Benefits of Growing Food from Heirloom or Open-Pollinated Seeds with Avid Backyard Gardener, Denis Leblanc, and Biodiversity Advocate, Rachelle Floin
• Preparing Your Garden April 22, 1 pm With Felicia from Sycamore Farms at Petrolia Library
• Native Plants and PollinatorsMay 13, 2 pm, with Dylan Henry of Maajigin Gumig at the Corunna Library
• Seed Saving with Michael SchimpAug. 14, 6 pm at the wyoming library

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