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Remembering the year the frost came early and wiped out my seed collection
It was the first week of October, about five years back, when a hard freeze hit our area two weeks early. I lost every single seed packet I'd left in the shed, which was over forty varieties I'd saved from that summer. What made it stand out was how my neighbors in the seed exchange group rallied, mailing me little envelopes with replacements from their own stashes within days. I got a package from a woman in Boise with six kinds of tomato seeds and a note that said 'pay it forward next year'. That kind of sharing is what this is all about, you know? Has anyone else had a garden disaster turn into a really good reminder of why we do this?
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lisa_grant4mo ago
Did your neighbor in Boise send specific tomato varieties you still grow?
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the_sage6mo ago
Yeah, that's the worst. I keep a backup stash of my most important seeds in a sealed jar in the house now. It saved me when my garage flooded last spring. The community really is the best safety net though.
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