Springhill Seed Library

06/04/2026

Heirloom, Mason sweet potato slips are now available at Spring Hill seed library.

Planting/Harvesting info sheets onsite as well as instructions how to pull slips away from the potatoes.

They need to be in the ground in the next 24 hours!! Keep them out of the sun and slightly damp until planted.

Getum’ while they’re hot!!

517 West 20th street
RVS

06/01/2026

June is here, and with it an abundance of plants for your vegetable garden!

Check out our recommendations for planting in your hardiness zone.

Direct Sowing:
Zones 6A, 7B, and 8A: Bush Beans, Pole Beans, Lima Beans, Cucumbers, Muskmelons, Okra, Pumpkins, Southern Peas, Summer Squash, Winter Squash, Sweet Corn, Sweet Potato, Watermelon

Zones 6B and 7A: Bush Beans, Pole Beans, Lima Beans, Cucumbers, Muskmelons, Okra, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Southern Peas, Summer Squash, Winter Squash, Sweet Corn, Sweet Potato, Watermelon

Zone 8B Direct Sowing Recommendations are available in the linked publication.

Transplanting:
Zone 6A: Tomatoes, Eggplant, Leeks, Peppers

Zones 6B, 7A, 7B, and 8A: Tomatoes, Eggplant, Peppers

Zone 8B Transplanting Recommendations are available in the linked publication.

You can prepare for the entire planting season by visiting https://brnw.ch/plantguide - including recommendations for Zone 8B. To determine your USDA zone, you can enter your zip code here: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/

05/23/2026

05/13/2026

There’s seedlings on the Free Plant Stand 🌱

05/09/2026

Happy Mothers Day Weekend! It’s finally time to plant tomatoes here in Richmond.

There will be free tomato seeding starting Saturday May 9th at 3 pm until Tuesday May 12th. I will put out approximately 20 seedlings each morning & late afternoon Sunday-Tuesday. Please limit to four (4) seedlings per household!

There’s also muskmelon & sunflowers starts available while supplies last in thanks to the Richmond Grows Gardens Greenhouse.

05/09/2026

Here’s the inventory list of tomatoes that will be available on Sunday from 11-2pm. Don’t miss them! For many of the varieties, this is all I have left for the season. More varieties will be released in a few weeks (including the Dwarf Tomato Project ones!)

Tomatoes:

Super Sweet 100 13
Sun Sugar 2
Black Beauty 1
Cherokee Carbon 2
Tigerella 3
Cosmic Eclipse 3
Juliet 7
Taiga 5
Beefsteak 3
Cherokee Purple 4
Roma 2
Black Krim 8
Sart Roloise 3
Lemon Boy Plus 3
Green Zebra 4
Pineapple 5
Blood Moon 5
Constoluto Fiorentino 6

https://www.facebook.com/events/1774824939585710/

Please note, I am unable to hold plants prior to the sale. Thanks for understanding!

04/25/2026

This Saturday!! Join us on 4/25 from 11-25 for another epic plant sale! While our tomato babies are currently safely tucked into the greenhouse, they’ll be ready for their new homes this weekend. We will have some fun, new varieties this season - you won’t want to miss this!!

8430 Shannon Rd. North Chesterfield VA 23236

04/17/2026

The Understory Social - A fundraiser for Verdant Richmond & Richmond’s Community Gardens

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-understory-social

Richmond’s Community Gardens invite you to The Understory Social! A fundraiser for Verdant Richmond, and the vibrant, scrappy community gardens it supports across our city.

Where: Studio Two Three, 109 W. 15th St. Richmond, Va 23224

When: Wednesday April 29, 6:30-9PM

What: Drinks, Food, Silent Auction, Music, Dance, Live Printing and More!

Over the last 15 years since the city’s community gardening program began, empty corners of city owned land have bloomed into a diverse and de-centralized network of vibrant third spaces, sustained on shoestring budgets, donated lumber, and untold hours of volunteer love and dedication. We’ve been up to our elbows in compost, playing cat and mouse with rats and deer, nurturing butterflies, dueling leopard slugs and weeding doggedly through to the bitter end of August.

This is your chance to give back to this extraordinary upwelling of community spirit, “yes-and” the beauty, and grant us the stability to keep on doing it, spring after spring.

We’ll gather from 6:30-9PM on Wednesday April 29th at Studio Two Three in Manchester for local food, and drink, a live auction featuring offerings from local artists, makers and businesses, and ecologically themed performances by a delightful troupe of Richmond’s dancing, singing and strumming forest spirits!

About Verdant Richmond
Many of Richmond’s Community Gardens receive their fiscal sponsorship through a tiny, scrappy, one-person 501c3 nonprofit called Verdant Richmond, that heroically stepped in to fill the void left by the collapse of the behemoth Enrichmond Foundation in 2022.

Now, after 4 years of stepping up for Community Gardens, it’s time for us to step up for Verdant. Filing taxes, keeping good records, organizing receipts, and managing accounts well takes a lot of careful, loving, human attention (like gardening!). 100% of the funds we raise will pay for vital administrative support that will keep Verdant, and the gardens it sponsors, fiscally and legally sound.

Get your tickets here before they sell out:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-understory-social

03/20/2026

Happy First Day of Spring! We're getting longer days and longer lists of gardening chores.🌸🌱

Here's what we're sowing this week in zone 7a. You can find our full list of planting dates here:
https://www.southernexposure.com/catalog/plantingdates.pdf

09/04/2025

September! Are you ready for fall planting? 🍂🧡

Direct Sowing:
Zones 6A & 6B: Baby Salad Lettuce, Mustard, Radish, Spinach
Zone 7A: Beginning of the month: Beets, Swiss Chard, Collards, Kale, Kohlrabi. All month: Baby Salad Lettuce, Mustard, Radish, Spinach, Turnips
Zone 7B: Beets, Swiss Chard, Collards, Kale, Kohlrabi, Baby Salad Lettuce, Mustard, Radish, Spinach, Turnips
Zone 8A: Beginning of the month: Carrots, Rutabaga. All month: Beets, Swiss Chard, Collards, Kale, Kohlrabi, Baby Salad Lettuce, Mustard, Radish, Spinach, Turnips
Zone 8B Direct Sowing Recommendations are available in the publication linked below.

Transplanting:
Zones 6A & 6B: Beginning of the month: Head Lettuce
Zone 7A: Beginning of the month: Broccoli. All month: Head Lettuce
Zone 7B: Beginning of the month: Broccoli, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Leeks. All month: Head Lettuce.
Zone 8A: Beginning of the month: Cauliflower, Cabbage, Leeks. All month: Broccoli, Chinese Cabbage, Head Lettuce
Zone 8B Transplanting Recommendations are available in the publication linked below.

You can prepare for the entire planting season by visiting https://brnw.ch/plantguide - keep in mind that this resource has not been updated to reflect the new hardiness zones. To determine your USDA zone, you can enter your zip code here: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/