Vernal & DaughtersSeed Library, Est. 1911

The how-to shelf

Growing guides from the bench

Short, stubborn, and written for Marrow Creek's short-summer valley. If a guide here disagrees with something on the internet, trust the one written by someone who has to eat the result.

Growing Guides · 7 min read The Sowing Calendar, Plainly

When to put what in the ground around Marrow Creek, with the two dates we actually trust.

Read the guide Growing Guides · 9 min read Seed Saving Without Tears

Which crops will keep their word, which will cross, and how to label things so next-year-you believes you.

Read the guide Growing Guides · 6 min read A Cold Frame From the Scrap Pile

One sheet of polycarbonate, some pallet boards, and six weeks of December salad.

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The season in twelve boxes

Pink is sowing, green is harvest. Press G from any page to land back here.