This will be the first meeting of 2025 and a Catch up on what’s been happening over the summer. It will be one of our usual meetings talking about the current seasonal planting and harvesting, and swapping seeds/seedlings/cuttings between members. Mid summer is a good time to assess the range of Australian native food plants that are available and take cuttings and to plant seed as many fruits mature. There are many great food plants that can be grown over many locations and environments. A good place to start are the obvious range of native citrus. Many can grown fairly easily from fresh still wet seeds from the fruits and they also tend to do well from cuttings taken with a few leaf nodes. They are all great for local insects and birds and most can easily be grown and fruit in medium/large sized pots. This includes the spikey ‘Dooja’ or Round lime Citrus australis, ‘Finger lime’ Citrus australasica , ‘Mount White lime’ Citrus garrawayi, ‘Australian Desert lime ‘Citrus glauca’, and the fairly rare and odd ‘Russell River lime’ or ‘Large leaf finger lime’ Citrus indora so named because it is the only known citrus to have no citrus smell in it’s blossom. There is so much to explore and summer is a great time to get them into your garden. Along with the native mints like ‘River Mint’ Mentha australis and ‘Slender mint’ Mentha diemenica there are lots of ‘mint’ bushes in the Prostanthera genus that were so called by europeans who used them in the early period of colonisation for making teas and flavouring dishes. They often have very strong flavours but are fantastic used sparingly to flavour other foods. Try some cut leaf mint Prostanthera incisa sprinkled on some smokey toasted damper or bread with salt and roasted garlic! Now is also the time to start looking for the tubers as well – like Yam daisy – Microseris lanceolata, Microseris scapigera and Microseris walteri, Youlk Platysace deflexa and Vanilla lily Arthropodium milleflorum. There are also 5 tasty easy to grow raspberries native to Australia that are worth looking for. And this is just a small beginning to the fabulous range of indigenous foods that are easily grown in your backyard in the Blue Mountains.

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It’s that time again!
This is just a quick reminder that the first scheduled meeting for the year 2025 of the Mid Blue Mountains SeedSavers is on at the Bullaburra Progress Hall this coming weekend.

Sunday 16 February 2025 from 10 am till Midday

Help celebrate the Blue Mountains Summer!

This meeting will be one of our usual meetings taking about the current seasonal planting and harvesting and swapping/packing seeds and swapping seedlings and cuttings between members.

Come along and talk about growing things with like minded people.
Hope to see you there celebrating the current productive growing season!

The address for the Mid Blue Mountains Seedsavers website is:
https://midbluemountainsseedsavers.org/

We do now have a Facebook page as well:
https://www.facebook.com/Mid-Blue-Mountains-Seed-Savers-1629533990602860/

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