Curious about seed selection and acquisition? Are you swamped by beautiful, glossy seed catalogs? Do you still have some of the seed packs you ordered last year, but are considering ordering more? Do terms like “hybrid”, “F1”, and “heirloom” confuse you? Is your home life suffering as you spend long sleepless nights trying to decide which of the hundreds of different tomatoes or Zinnias to grow this year? This lecture answered these questions and more!

Gretel’s presentation – Selecting and Starting Seeds

Gretel Anspach is a Trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a Lifetime Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, and a recently retired systems engineer for Raytheon.  She won the MMGA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. Gretel established and maintained a 20,000 square foot food production garden that has provided fresh produce to the Marlboro and Maynard Food Pantries for the last ten years.  Her primary interest and focus are always on the science behind horticulture.