Earlier in the year, I received a message from a teacher at Buckingham Elementary school about the new garden the school is starting this year. She also shared a story about their seed order being cancelled and not being able to make another order and receive it in the mail in time to start seedlings. I just so happened to be going through my seeds that week and had a big pile of seeds that I wasn’t planning on using this year (I always save more than I will actually need)- so the school’s new garden seemed like the most logical people to take my excess seed!
Laughing Radish is proud to have made a donation of over 33 varieties of seed, totaling a couple thousand seeds to Buckingham Elementary’s new garden. The students started the seeds over the winter as part of their class science lessons, then planted them into their new school garden in the spring.
Included in the seed donation are many staple kitchen vegetables, herbs, tea plants and a variety of native flowers. They are bound to create a wonderful, diverse garden that benefits their community, as well as the wildlife and pollinators living in the region.
Way to go Buckingham Elementary!
Seeds in their new garden…
N – Indicates native plant
Flowers/herbs (17)
- Amaranth – Love Lies Bleeding
- Borage
- Blue Vervain – N
- Calendula
- Chamomile
- Catnip
- Chives
- Cut leaf coneflower – N
- Evening primrose – N
- Grey-headed prairie coneflower -N
- Joe Pye Weed (purple) -N
- Lovage
- Quinoa – Red Head
- Smooth aster -N
- Sunflower (Branching)
- Tall tickseed – N
- Yarrow – N
Vegetables (16)
- Beans- Misc Pole (green purple and speckled varieties)
- Beans – Orca (bush)
- Cucumber – Marketmore
- Peas
- Popcorn – Purple variety
- Pumpkin
- Pepper – Mocha Swirl (sweet)
- Swiss Chard – Bright Lights
- Tomato -Green zebra
- Tomato – White cherry
- Tomato – Indigo rose
- Winter Squash – Buttercup
- Winter Squash – Jamaican Pumpkin
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