A Passion for Heirloom Vegetable Seeds

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Heirloom Vegetable SeedsJere Gettle from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds joins us to talk seeds, seed saving, and seed collecting.He loves meeting gardeners, chefs, and farmers who share old seed varieties and the stories behind them.Lifelong Passion for Heirloom SeedsGettle started his seed business as a teenager, with a 12-page photocopied price list.Today, the seed company tests over 4,000 heirloom seed varieties each year.Gettle says that for a variety to make the cut for the catalogue, he’s looking for 3 things:It’s beautifulIt tastes greatIt grows well