Plant-a-Patch

Plant-a-Patch Growing seedlings and community connections. Your Ottawa-Vanier neighbourhood seedling nursery. Annual in-person sales in May.

We're passionate growers who sell vegetable, herb and flower seedlings: local, high-quality, grown with love.

05/31/2026

Today is the Vanier Plant Club's first plant sale/swap in support of Banque alimentaire Partage Vanier Foodbank!

Check it out from 11 am - 4 pm on the corner of Montfort St and Baribeau St

How it works:

🪴 Folks can donate plants before and during the event. we will stop accepting plant donations at 3 pm to ensure they have a chance to get taken home 🙂

🪴 Important: If you can donate, Please ensure all plants are clearly labelled! Indoor plants, garden plants and veggie starts are all welcome

🪴 Everyone planning to attend, please bring non-perishable food items or some cash, as this is how you'll purchase "tickets"

🪴 One food item = 1 Ticket. Tickets can also be purchased with cash, $2 each or 3 for $5

🪴 The tickets will be used to purchase a plant, small plants will be 1 ticket, for example. Please note: larger plants and more rare plants may require more tickets to purchase.

We've spent the last week distributing leftover veggie seedlings to various community organisations: Manor Park Communit...
05/29/2026

We've spent the last week distributing leftover veggie seedlings to various community organisations: Manor Park Community Garden's Food Bank boxes, the sharing box at Jardin communautaire Vanier Community Garden, Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard Gardens at Just Food, as well as a community garden at a neighbourhood Ottawa community housing.

We also just donated some seedlings to the Vanier Plant Club. They're holding a plant sale in support of Banque alimentaire Partage Vanier Foodbank this Sunday. Here are the details:

Date: Sunday, May 31st
Time: 11 am - 4 pm
Location: The corner of Montfort St and Baribeau St

How it will work:

🪴 Folks can donate plants before and during the event. we will stop accepting plant donations at 3 pm to ensure they have a chance to get taken home 🙂

🪴 Important: If you can donate, Please ensure all plants are clearly labelled! Indoor plants, garden plants and veggie starts are all welcome

🪴 Everyone planning to attend, please bring non-perishable food items or some cash, as this is how you'll purchase "tickets"

🪴 One food item = 1 Ticket. Tickets can also be purchased with cash, $2 each or 3 for $5.

🪴 The tickets will be used to purchase a plant, small plants will be 1 ticket, for example. Please note: larger plants and more rare plants may require more tickets to purchase.

For those of us able to donate, let's donate generously and support our neighbours!

Let’s talk seedlings — give me your feedback! 🌱Did you find what you were looking for at the sales?🌱What seedling(s) wou...
05/28/2026

Let’s talk seedlings — give me your feedback!

🌱Did you find what you were looking for at the sales?

🌱What seedling(s) would like to buy that I didn’t have (or ran out of)?

My personal notes:

🍅 More cherry tomatoes, maybe more big tomatoes too (last year we had so many left over, this year they were gone in a blink!)

🌶️ More jalapeño, maybe more other hot peppers like shish*to and espelette

🌺 More nasturtium

🥬 More Swiss chard

🍒 More ground cherry

🌱 Curly parsley

Did you have a chance to check out The Farm Store during our seedling sales? Such a gem ✨💎✨
05/28/2026

Did you have a chance to check out The Farm Store during our seedling sales? Such a gem ✨💎✨

Dropped off seedlings at The Farm Store at 1805 Gaspe 🌱There’s cosmos, marigold, 3 types of kale, oregano, yellow zucchi...
05/26/2026

Dropped off seedlings at The Farm Store at 1805 Gaspe 🌱

There’s cosmos, marigold, 3 types of kale, oregano, yellow zucchini, a green zucchini, and straight 8 field cucumber

RESILIENCE 💪Seedlings are strong and resilient. Here are 2 examples:1) I broke a tomato stem. I put the top half in wate...
05/25/2026

RESILIENCE 💪

Seedlings are strong and resilient. Here are 2 examples:

1) I broke a tomato stem. I put the top half in water and it grew new roots. I’m going to pot it today. Meanwhile I kept the original tomato, which is now growing 2 suckers. Those 2 suckers will become new main stems. These tomatoes will lag behind others, but they'll still produce fruit. This one is the beautiful speckled Roman paste tomato. And now I have 2!

2) I cracked this zucchini stem over a week ago, but it's still doing fine, growing. To plant, I’ll bury the broken part of the stem with rest of the roots, and it’ll be fine 😎

Never despair! I used to, but I’ve learned it’s going to be ok.

05/25/2026

Who else is excited for the start of the Beechwood Market?! It's less than 2 weeks away: Saturday, June 6 at 9 am 🥳

Today was the final seedling sale of the season and an amazing day to end on. Thank you for coming out and supporting lo...
05/23/2026

Today was the final seedling sale of the season and an amazing day to end on. Thank you for coming out and supporting local! We wish you happy planting, a thriving garden, and abundant harvest!

If you missed the sale, but still want seedlings, we still have a selection of cucumber, zucchini, squash, eggplant, bell pepper, herbs, and flowers. Contact us!

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