Ohio victory garden program to offer free vegetable seeds to gardeners
Gardeners are also encouraged to consider donating some of the produce grown in their family’s victory garden to food pantries in their neighborhood.
By Mike Hogan
The Columbus Dispatch
Mar 28, 2021
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In an effort to encourage continued interest in home and community vegetable gardens, the Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is sponsoring a victory garden program this spring. The program, titled Let’s Grow Ohio, will provide free vegetable seeds and educational programming designed to help gardeners and would-be gardeners plant vegetable gardens this spring and summer.
Free seeds will be distributed in Franklin County from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 3, at the Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory, 2548 Carmack Road, while supplies last. Interested gardeners can pick up seeds in a contactless drive-through distribution. Gardeners will receive a sample of cool-season and warm-season vegetable crops, including lettuce, beets, radish, cucumbers as well as sunflowers.
Gardeners are encouraged to involve neighbors, family, and friends in their victory garden effort. Throughout the upcoming growing season, OSU Extension and its master gardener volunteers will offer educational programs on various vegetable gardening topics. Gardeners can find more information about the Ohio Victory Garden Project at the Ohio Victory Garden weblog at u.osu.edu/ohiovictorygardens. Gardeners are encouraged to upload photos and submit stories to the weblog about their own victory garden efforts this season.
