November Fort de Chartres Jardin Potager
1 décembre 2020 mardi
35 degrees, sun
3 mph, N wind
A gift from the jardin!
As we enter this final month of décembre, we approach a most special holiday season of the year. The garden year is almost at a close as the temperatures drop and the first snow is soon to be on our doorstep. Our focus shifts to the sheltering of those final cold season crops and finishing those last produce/seed preserving tasks. We can now truly begin enjoying the gifts the garden has given us this past year. This quiet season is a particularly meaningful this year of uncertainty and concern, a choice to celebrate life and its sacredness, in all its forms in our lives. I have met many individuals this year with a bit more time on their hands to explore the possibilities of bringing gardening into their lives and it has been a joy listening to their excitement and discovery of the art of gardening, helping to fill in those empty spaces this year has left in all our lives. These garden moments have been a inspiration in a year that truly needs a silver lining.
Joyeux Jardinage Seed Gifts
So, for all of you garden adventurers, looking to share your love of gardening, whether it be long-loved or newly discovered, a limited time offer from the potager-gifts of heirloom seeds this holiday season. This moment in time seems like a wonderful opportunity for garden-loving folks to share with the other gardeners or encourage the gardeners-to-be in their lives, the jardin’s bounty and beauty with special holiday seed jardin potager packets. Next year might be the time for all of us to grow a bit more in our gardens for those in need, whether it be family and neighborsor helping supply our local foodbanks with home-grown produce. Maybe you love the look and taste of the jardin’s heritage lettuce varieties or maybe its those French Colonial flower favorites that make you happy? Or perhaps it is the garden’s heritage peas and beans or squash and watermelon varieties that bring such flavor and joy that you would like to share? Share your mix and/or match garden favorites with those in your life, giving the garden’s gift of life and beauty in the simple offering of heirloom seeds to those in your world who might appreciate a heritage garden seed gift to brighten the holidays and 2021!
Jennifer Duensing, Illinois Country Harvest Farm
The Joyuex Jardinage (Merry Gardening) Holiday Seed Collections are offered here for you to choose your garden favorites to share with those growers in your life. Two special holiday seed packet collections are offered for a very limited time. They contain a selection of seeds of your choice from the Fort de Chartres jardin potager or my personal heritage varieties. One has the option to choose either a 3 seed variety collection packet for $10 or a 5 seed variety collection for $15. You can pick your cover design in a green heritage design or a more modern red sepia garden inspired motif. As always, the seed collection will contain seed variety history and growing instructions in heritage packaging and sealed with wax. Seed gift collection ordering deadline is December 9 and the seeds will be shipped for an extra cost of $4 on or before December 19. Also an option, ordered seed gifts can be available for in person pick-up for no additional cost on December 19, for in person store pickup at either Illinois Country Harvest Farm Stand in Prairie du Rocher or Sassafras Creek Originals in Ste. Genevieve. Click on the two links below (French Colonial Seed Collection Lists and the Order Form) for further details.
Heritage Seed Collection List Order Form
Please note: These special holiday seed gifts are for the individual seed varieties only contained in the the heritage seed collections not the full heritage seed collections themselves. You can mix your individual seed collection choices from the different collections. For example if you want to order lettuce/spinach varieties for your 3 seed variety seed gift choice-you can order Cimarron and Monstrueux De Viroflay Spinach from the Early Spring collection and the Tennis Ball Lettuce from the Spring-Summer Seed Collection. Please feel free to email me with any questions.
Kandye Mahurin, Sassafras Creek Originals
And as always, if one is looking for the seven regularly offered full French Colonial Garden Seed Collections for the proce of $20, they continue to be available online at Heart of Illinois Country Heritage Artisan Shop, at the Illinois Country Harvest Farm Stand in Prairie du Rocher, Saturdays through December 19 (9 am- noon) or Sassafras Creek Originals in Ste. Genevieve, Wednesday through Saturday all year round.
Thank you for supporting French Colonial gardening in the Illinois Country. From my garden to yours, offering best wishes to all for health, happiness, and successful gardens in 2021. The approaching holiday and New Year offer such hope and promise of life yet to come. Joyuex Jardinage!
La Jardiniere
Update: Ordering is now closed for the jardin’s holiday seed gifts. Thank you to all who placed orders and your seed gifts will be mailed beginning this Saturday, December 12.
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