Sep 09
2027 Seed Season: Plan a Kitchen Garden Around What You Cook
Meet Casa Verde’s 2027 seed selection: fragrant peppers, roasting chiles, unusual crosses and White Cherry Tomato, with a practical approach to planning your...
THE JOURNALDISPATCHES FROM THE FIELD
Notes from
the field
& the kitchen.
Growing guides, variety profiles, recipes, and notes from the Casa Verde field rows. Written by the people selecting, trialing, and shipping seeds.
Growing guideJul 2112 min read
Canadian Seed-Starting Calendar: A Personalized Planting Guide
Turn your local last-frost date and crop list into a practical Canadian planting schedule, then add every reminder to the calendar you already use.
Jul 12
Best Culinary Herbs to Grow from Seed in Canada
Choose culinary herb seeds for Canadian gardens by kitchen value, climate, harvest pattern, container size, and preservation method.
Jul 12
When to Start Herb Seeds in Canada
Start culinary herb seeds at the right time in Canada by separating slow indoor herbs from fast direct-sown herbs and succession crops.
Jul 12
How to Choose Rare Seeds Without Wasting Garden Space
Use a practical scorecard to choose rare seeds by climate fit, culinary purpose, plant size, harvest window, and genuine distinctiveness.
Jul 12
Rare Vegetable Seeds in Canada: A Practical Collector Guide
Collect rare vegetable seeds with a purpose: flavour, regional history, unusual colour, preservation, or adaptation to a Canadian garden.
Jul 12
Best Culinary Seeds for Canadian Gardens
Build a productive Canadian kitchen garden with culinary seeds selected for season length, repeat harvests, flavour, and preservation.
Jul 12
What Are Culinary Seeds? A Seed-to-Table Garden Guide
Understand culinary seeds as a practical garden category built around flavour, harvest use, and the way cooks actually plan meals.
Jul 12
Determinate vs. Indeterminate Tomatoes for Canadian Gardens
Compare determinate, indeterminate, dwarf, and micro-dwarf tomato plants by space, harvest pattern, support, and Canadian season length.
Jul 12
When to Start Tomato Seeds in Canada: A Practical Calendar
Calculate a useful indoor start for tomato seeds in Canada without creating oversized plants before transplant weather arrives.