Spring has sprung and it’s time to get your organic garden growing!
What are the best sources for acquiring vegetable seeds and seedlings? What to plant when? Where are the best spots in Atlanta for ecological garden products? We can help!
Edible Landscape Season is here! Well, ok, just about all seasons are good for an edible gardener. But Spring calls a gardener back into action: turning soil, bed prepping, planting for the upcoming high growing seasons and harvesting what’s left from winter’s slow production. Check out some of our favorite resources to get you growing, locally:
For a super-local vegetable garden planting calendar, including when to direct seed or plant seedlings, check out GA Organics guide for GA growers found HERE.
Direct seeding greens like collards, Kale, arugula is a no-brainer come early spring. Seed peas early too. Seed out also your carrots and parsnips, if you didn’t last fall. (We like them overwintered because they’re sweeter in the cold weather, but better now than never!) We hope you ordered your seeds last winter by the fireside, pouring over garden catalogues with tea in hand. If you didn't, get on it! Our favorite seed companies can be found online and throughout local markets and healthfood stores in Atlanta.
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, organic gardeners’ reliable source for decades!
Sow True Seed is local to Asheville with an excellent ecological mission
Johnny’s Seeds is a market garden/ farmer paradise with seeds, plant starts like strawberry crowns and other useful garden supplies
Some things are simply easier to buy baby plant starts for the garden…. especially moving into the summer arena, come late March…. if you didn’t start your tomatoes, eggplants, peppers inside earlier in the year, buy starts from these great local organizations!
For local vegetable (+ herb!) starts
Love is Love Farm has a GREAT ONLINE PLANT SALE
The Wylde Center has a great plant sale in Decatur GA- Drop by anytime!
And not hyper-local but we love them Sandy Mush Herb Nursery ships all kinds of medicinal herb plants directly to you.
Also check out Trees Atlanta, GA Native Plant Society, GA Audubon Society, State botanical garden and more for spring plant sales! Harder to find Native plants and perennials can often be sourced from local, seasonal plant sales.
