Seed donation

At the end of the summer hardware and garden supply stores get rid of their leftover seeds so that they can have fresh seed the following spring. While germination rates do drop when using older seed, this seed is still, for the most part, perfectly good to use. These stores can be a great source of free seeds for community gardens.

Thiesens in Grinnell recently donated all of their leftover garden seed, 120 packets of vegetable and herb seed and 100 packets of flower seed, to the Community Garden. We will use the seed in the garden next year but we will also give a lot of it away because there is far more seed than we can use in our limited garden space.