 Hi there, and welcome to Getting Clean on the Prairies. So, in this video, I am just going to go through some of my seeds here, and I am participating in the first ever, first annual Canadian seed challenge 2021, and I just want to do a quick shout out to the two YouTube friends of mine who have started this seed exchange and got it going, and that's Hickory Cross Farms and Lori's World. So, hello to you guys, and thanks for getting this going, I'm excited to be part of it. So what's this all about? So what's happened is we've just put it out there to all the YouTube gardeners in Canada, and also subscribers, people who like to watch YouTube gardening channels and who wanted to participate. And so we've randomly been given five names that I am to share some of my seeds with, and I think we have to send them at least three varieties. So I've been going through my seeds, it's preferably ones that you've saved from your garden, but I unfortunately have not become very good at that yet, but I have a lot of nice seeds that are purchased within my growing zone here in western Canada, and I've grown some of them last year in my garden, some of them are new, and I haven't tried them myself, but I'm willing to share a few of them with these folks, and at the end of this video I'm also going to be doing a subscriber giveaway, so make sure you stick around to the end and I'll give you the details on how to enter for some seeds. So I'm just going to go through a few of them here, I'm not going to go through all of them, but I do have a nice variety of tomato seeds here that I was, some of them I grew last year, some of them I'm just going to try out this year. One that I thought was kind of interesting looking, hopefully you can see this, it's called the Dwarf Wild Fred, so this is an open pollinated tomato developed by the Dwarf Tomato Project, I'm not sure what that means, but a good producer of purple medium sized up to eight ounce beefsteak tomatoes, and these are, this contains 25 Saskatchewan grown seeds, so they are been raised here and collected here in Saskatchewan. It's a Dwarf type tomato, so I thought that one looks like an interesting one, so that one's going to be available to my to my receivers of seeds. Another one that I haven't tried that I bought that I look pretty interesting, it looks like it is some type of like a cucumber melon, it's an heirloom cucumber, small round yellow with a mild sweet flesh, and it is very productive, and its grow maturity days are 55, so should be a good one to grow here in zone three. I've got some peppers, I'll list all these below in the in the description for my people that are going to be receiving these, so they can let me know what they'd like. One that I wanted to show you is one that I've grown indoors, and I have some here. These are paprika peppers, and I've done quite a few videos. I grew these hydroponically using the crack key method, so they grew in water, and this is my biggest one that I got. They were all this color that you can see on the package, they were all very yellow. When I harvested them, I've had them sitting in this basket for a couple weeks, and they are turning a beautiful red. They smell wonderful, and so I'm going to dehydrate them and grind them into some paprika pepper, but I've been cutting them open here and collecting the seeds, so if anybody would like some of those, these are paprika peppers. So those will be available. This is another pepper that I got that I have not grown yet, but I think sometimes I just buy them because they look so pretty in the picture, but these are called a aurora pepper. They're a dwarf pepper plant with beautiful one and a half inch long peppers that change from pink to purple to orange and red as they ripen. So sounds very pretty, and they also make a good, they're easy to grow in pots and can be brought into the winter as a house plant. So that's a good one for us here in Saskatchewan when sometimes our growing season ends quickly with frost, and you can save some of these plants that you have in containers and bring them indoors. So they are a medium hot pepper, and they are 65 days from transplant, so those are available as well. I have some lettuces here, another company that I get from that is in Manitoba, I think Brandon or, I can't remember now, it doesn't say on here, but this company is called Heritage Harvest Seed, and they specialize in rare and endangered heirloom vegetables, flowers and herbs. So I have some spinach. I grew this last year, long-standing spinach, did very well. I have some Cimarron lettuce, which is just a leafy green lettuce, and the other one that I thought was really nice, and I have some here to show you, is the Yugoslavian red butterhead lettuce. I still have quite a few of those seeds left, and I've also been showing them clinically this lettuce. I'll just let you zoom in, so you can see the leaves on it are a real kind of a pretty deep red color, very pretty in your salads. It's kind of just a loose leafy, kind of like a butter crunch lettuce, or similar to like this romaine here. So I have some of those available. I also have some seeds, watermelon and cantaloupe seeds that I have purchased. These are from TNT seeds in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and we have the Minnesota Midget cantaloupe, 65 days, and the watermelon sugar baby, 75 days, and I also picked up these, the squash here. I haven't grown it yet, but I was kind of excited because it's a winter squash, so something that's probably hardy here too, Saskatchewan, and it has a thick orange flesh taste that tastes like sweet potatoes. So I thought that was sounded good because we can't grow sweet potatoes here, or they're very hard to grow here because they have such a long growing time. So excited to try this, and we'll share that with somebody if they would like some of those. Okay, so everything here is grows well in zone three, which is where I am, and the five people that I have been given names of to share my seeds with. I'll just do a shout out to them. Some of them have their own YouTube channel. Some of them are just participants in the seed challenge. Carla Peay from Hay River Northwest Territories. I looked up your growing zone or your days of growing days, I guess, and it looks like you have a very short growing period, probably your zone two maybe, I'm assuming, 88 days. But I'm sure some of these lettuces, kale would do well there. Tomatoes, if you have a greenhouse. So I would love to hear how you make out with these seeds once you get them. Chris Dixon, White North Forge, has a YouTube channel. I'll put the link to his channel below so you can check him out. He's in Clairzone, Alberta. Just according to when I was looking online, he's in growing zone 4A. Could be wrong, Chris. You can let me know. Jonathan from Landmark, Ontario just told me to send him whatever seeds. He doesn't care. He just wants to be surprised. So I will put together a nice package for you. You have a growing zone looks like around 4B, so a little bit longer season than 3B, but probably very similar. And what else do we have here? Oh, it's In Your Nature is another channel that I am exchanging seeds with, and they are in Toronto. So they have a nice long season there. I think it believes it's around 6 or 7A growing zone. And Joe and Sue from Joe and Sue's Off-Grid Adventure. Hello to you. They are in Arnston, Ontario. And I think a growing season pretty similar to mine as well. So I will be sharing all my seeds with you guys by email that you can choose from, or check them out on my description here below. And I'm looking forward to sending these off to these people and see how they make out in their gardens. And excited to receive some seeds myself from some of the other participants in this challenge. So that takes us to the other part of my video, and that is the subscriber giveaway. I've never done this before, so hopefully I don't screw it up. But I would love to give some seeds to one of my subscribers. I've been doing my YouTube channel now for about nine months since last spring. I started and I'm just enjoying it so much. And I really appreciate all these people who are following me now and who like to comment on my videos and share their knowledge, their comments, their tips. And it's been really great. So I really appreciate all of you who have subscribed. And I would love to send you some seeds. So I picked out two. And because they are the names on them include Saskatchewan. And I know that's a hard one to say and it's hard to spell. So this is the Russian Saskatchewan tomato. I grew some of them hydroponically this winter. I have some videos showing them. They came out kind of like a large cherry sized tomato. But I think outdoors they would probably be a bit larger. These are a midsize red tomato. Determinant. 60 days from transplant. And I will send this whole pack out to somebody if they like them. And I also have these watermelon called the cream of Saskatchewan. I did plant a few last year in my garden and had an early frost and didn't do too well. So I might steal a couple more seeds out of this pack but I would love to send you these. And perhaps another one from this selection here that I'm going to show in the description. So to enter just leave a comment and let me know what your favorite seed is to grow or which one of these seeds that I've shared with you you would like to have sent to you if you're the winner. And just end it with a little green emoji for sprout. I think it's called the sprout in the emojis or just put green sprout or just some emoji there so that I know that you were following me here in this video. And I'm going to run this giveaway in this video and the next video that I post. I'm not quite sure what that video is going to be but it'll be in the next week or two. So you can enter this video by commenting below and have a second chance in the next video to get your name in twice. So please subscribe, share with your friends, leave comments and that is about it then for this video. So I hope that you will leave a comment below of course to get entered and we will see you in the next video. Thanks for watching.