Goodbye For Now: Check Out Our Website and World Food Day

Dear Friends,

For all intents and purposes, this will be the final post on our Planting The Seed Blog. All of the posts will remain available for referencing and sharing (Don't forget about your canna seeds in February!). Thank you for your continued support of our blog. You can still contact Planting The Seed via our About Us link, or by visiting our Website. If you are interested in our landscape design services, please contact us via telephone or email. Again, thank you for supporting our blogging efforts and for your continued support of our local business.

As many of you know, today is World Food Day 2012. It's an extremely important day, most especially for those who are needlessly impoverished and going hungry. Please refer to the information below to learn about World Food Day, the Millenium Development Goals, and World Hunger.

Thank you,

Planting The Seed

from fao.org

Today is World Food Day.

If you're interested in learning why we need to do more to end world hunger, check out these links:

• Learn
• Millenium Development Goals from the G8 Summit

If you're interested in learning how to help, check out these links:

• Act 
• Get Involved

More Information:

• World Food Day
• FAO.org
• OXFAM

Hungry Planet: Episode 20

Desmond Tutu for World Food Day

Food Justice: Fixing Our Broken Food System

Islamic Relief USA

Can I Get Some Canna?

If you've got canna in your yard, which you should, you've definitely noticed that they're going to seed right now. 

If you don't have canna, you should get some seeds from your friends that do. 

Get some seeds, put them in a paper bag or ziplock bag, and put them in the freezer or refrigerator until February.

I know it's a long time away, but I promise to remind you when the time comes!

Here's what you need:

•  A pair of heavy duty toenail clippers or sandpaper (safer)
• Clean plastic flower pots (3 or 4 inch).
• Some multipurpose compost or potting soil.
• A small stemless glass (for stability reasons).
• Some canna seeds.

Here's what you do:

• First get the toenail clippers or sandpaper and sand or chip away at the think black coating of the seed. STOP as soon as you see any white.
• Next, fill a glass with slightly warm water and soak the seeds for a few days. 
• OR get a plastic ziplock bag, a paper towel, and your seeds. Wet the paper towel (damp, not dripping), wrap the seeds in the paper towel (making sure to keep them separate), and put it in the bag. DO NOT SEAL the bag. 
• Once the seeds have germinated, it's time to put them in pots. Keep them in pots until the danger of frost has passed. Then plant them in your yard.
• It's a good idea to have organic compost mixed with organic peat moss. 

Canna come back every year on their own!.

So once they're set, you don't need to worry about them!

from demandstudios.com

from photobucket.com

It's autumn and the leaves know it

It's finally time for the leaves to start changing. 

Do you have some favorite fall foliage you'd like to share? 

Let us know in the comments or on facebook!

Here are a couple of our fall favorites!

Ginkgo

from plantsystematics.org

Japanese Maple

photograph by Brandon McLeod