Workshop day ~ 14/4/24 ~Seed sharing and Plant Propagation Workshop

On Sunday 14th of April, at Rib, we celebrated the end of winter dormancy and celebrated that spring is here with a seed sharing and plant propagation workshop from which we wished, more or less secretly, to add more species to shared grounds garden 🐁🌸🌷🌺🍄 alongside enabling a space to share, be together and support new growth.

We started with  Kate's great seed collection and after we were able to get to know the amazing collections by Danni van Amstel (@dannivanamste) , which focused on Dutch endemic species and Shuang Xu (@shuang.x.u), which contained seeds from Hong Kong. Thanks again for your generosity!

After preparing the potting mix (by sieving soil and mixing it with perlite and water), we sowed some seeds and made cuttings from baby's breath from shared grounds garden and some foraged city mint. We also repurposed some supermarket plastic packaging into lil hothouses for the seedlings and cuttings, keeping them warm and humid in these early stages of spring.

By the time we post this, the seedlings have already sprouted as you can see in the last picture! Thank y'all for coming, see you soon in the green, again!