Monthly Archives: May 2006

Renée Shepherd sold her first seed company (Shepherd’s Garden Seeds) to White Flower Farms and started a new one. This is the link to her current seed company. Beautiful drawings and good plant descriptions. Renée sells many European seeds, especially… Read more

Hot peppers and native grasses are specialties of the Redwood City Seed Company. The site includes a page of pepper photographs and an extremely valuable page on growing peppers from seed, as well as advice on pepper culture. If peppers… Read more

The medicinal herb collection is strong. The vegetable seed collection is fair. Plant descriptions are good, and since this is a Canadian seed company attention is paid to plant hardiness. (Botanic Names: yes) Canada
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This vegetable seed company, founded in England 1860, specializes in show vegetables, for example, a 5 pound (2 kg) onion. While big may not always mean better, growing large vegetables is both fun, and a horticultural challenge. (UK)
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This is the site for an ambitious project: “maintaining, evaluating and keeping databases for all the edible, medicinal and useful crops that can be grown in Canada.” The database project is operated by a nonprofit organization affiliated with Salt Spring… Read more

This is part of White Flour Farms. It can be frustratingly difficult to find the seed information on their web site. If you can’t find it, then call customer service and ordera a catalog. The vegetable seed selection is good… Read more

This seed company is for farmers. Small quantities of seeds are not sold. When appropriate, seeds are identified as hybrid or open pollinated. Sieger’s specializes in market vegetables for the Eastern United States and Canada. Siegers has been in business… Read more

This small seed company offers a careful selection of organic seeds. The web site is well organized and beautifully illustrated .Stellar Seeds is associated with Left Fields, “a diversified organic farm nestled at the base of Squilax Mountain, perched above… Read more

A large and fabulous Canadian seed company with a huge selection of vegetable and flower seeds. Stokes Seeds provides detailed growing instructions for farmers and separate detailed growing instructions for home gardeners.
(Botanic names: yes) Canada
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If you are looking for heirloom seeds from Appalachia, then this is your source. The Sustainable Mountain Agricultural Center’s specialty is beans and tomatoes. Heirloom seeds is only one part of a larger program supporting regional farmers.
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