One Seed Lambton
One Seed Lambton provides resources and free vegetable seeds to help anyone learn food-growing skills, from beginners to advanced.
Selected Garden Seed
Cherokee Purple Tomato
The selected seed for 2025 is Cherokee Purple Tomato. This tomato variety ranges from purple to brown with a touch of dark green. Large, flat, purplish-pink fruits are dense and juicy with a superb, sweet taste!
- Weight: 275-325g per fruit
- Height: 50-100cm
- Germination: 10-14 days
- Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last spring frost.
- Use peat moss-based growing mix.
- Transplant 4cm seedlings to individual peat pots.
- Maintain 15-18°C until garden planting in late May.
- Space plants 60cm (determinate) or 90cm (indeterminate) apart.
- Ensure direct sunlight and consistent soil moisture.
- Install strong stakes for support.
Visit your local library today to pick up your seeds!
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We want you to share the magic of your gardening journey with us! Capture and submit photos of your experiences from planting, growing, and harvesting this year's One Seed and earn a chance to win a premium canning set valued at over $100! Each photo submitted counts as one entry into the draw. Submissions will be accepted until July 31, 2025.
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Seed Library
The Seed Library is a free, community-driven seed borrowing system that provides an opportunity for people to grow their own healthy food. Library card holders borrow vegetable and herb seeds that they plant, grow, and harvest while letting a few plants mature and return to seed.