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Spring Plants: Live Plants & Rhizomes

Available for pre-order online only: Ginger plants, Turmeric plants, and Turmeric rhizomes. Ginger and turmeric ship in April for late spring planting. Grow these popular rhizomes in your garden or greenhouse for medicinal uses, delicious dishes, and refreshing juices. Limited quantities, available now for shipment in April (order with your seeds to save on shipping).

PERENNIAL ONIONS AND LEEKS: For the second year, we're offering limited quantities of live White multiplier onion plants and perennial leeks plants! Order before they're gone! Available now for shipment in spring (order with your seeds to save on shipping).

Seeds to Sow this Month

Sow Indoors: we're sowing flats of peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, kale, collards, bok choi and Chinese cabbage. Keep seeds in their optimum germination temperature range: the University of California provides this very useful Seed Germination Soil Temperature table.

Outside we're direct sowing peas, favas, and greens. We recommend pre-sprouting peas before sowing.

Raring to sow cool season flowers? Try easy-to-grow Calendula (for lovely edible petals to mix into salads, plus medicinal uses), old-fashioned Bachelor's Button, Poppies, Sweet Alyssum, and showy Larkspur.

Organic Growers School All-Day Pre-Workshop

Year Round Growing on Farm & Garden with Pam Dawling & Ira Wallace

Join Ira and Pam for this all-day pre-workshop at the Organic Growers School conference in Asheville, North Carolina. Experienced vegetable, herb, and seed growers Pam Dawling & Ira Wallace will share a step-by-step approach to growing year-round. Learn the tools to manage space effectively, grow the quantities of crops when you want them, and efficiently meet your growing goals.

Where: Creekside Farms Education Center, 339 Avery Creek Road, Arden, NC 28704
When: Friday, March 8, 2019, 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Cost: $55 with Saturday and/or Sunday conference registration, $70 without

Fundraise for Your School or Organization with Southern Exposure

It’s time to start planning your Spring 2019 fundraiser! Through a seed fundraiser, raise money for your important cause by growing heirloom produce in your community. We offer dozens of options and make it easy to do online and paper sales.

Living Energy Farm Workshops

Organic Farming and Fruit Propagation Workshop
March 15 – 17, at Living Energy Farm, Louisa, Virginia. Learn about off-grid living, food self-sufficiency, and grafting fruit trees.

Garden Planner

Map your garden throughout the year, organize crop rotations, and stick to the plan with twice-a-month email planting reminders. Try the Garden Planner free for one week.

Gift Collections that Keep Giving

Give the gift that keeps growing (and support local agriculture) with our seed collections, including:

30% of sales from these collections goes to the Piedmont Environmental Council.

Upcoming Events

Come and see us at upcoming events! We'll be hosting Seeds Swaps, giving hands-on demonstrations, and presenting on a variety of topics. Swing by our booth with your gardening and seeds saving questions! Check our events calendar to find us throughout the year.

Organic Growers School Spring Conference
March 8–10
Asheville, NC
organicgrowersschool.org

Mother Earth News Fair
April 27–28
Asheville, NC
motherearthnewsfair.com

Mother Earth News Fair
June 1–2
Frederick, MD
motherearthnewsfair.com

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Please contact us at gardens@southernexposure.com with questions, concerns, and garden photos!

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
P.O. Box 460, Mineral, VA 23117
Phone: 540-894-9480

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