Over the past 21 years we've collected the very best varieties I've been receiving it for many years without sending any money.Welcome! Our heirloom and heritage vegetable seeds are specially chosen for home gardeners. Other than the online websites for nearly every seed and garden product supplier, another relevant publication with many good ads is Country Folks Grower, which has a Midwest edition. Part of their value comes in the ads by multiple garden suppliers. They're readily available online under those titles. Other publicationsĪlthough they are geared to commercial production and a national audience, the Vegetable Growers News and Fruit Growers News published by Great American Media at Sparta, MI are good sources of information on growing practices and dealing with food plant problems. You won't find them in the Totally Tomatoes catalog.
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Information on how to obtain them and many other tomato varieties is available at /jerseytomato. Moreton and Ramapo are now available through some commercial outlets. A friend started them in a greenhouse and I enjoyed my most productive tomato crop ever. One of the best decisions I ever made occurred in 2008, when I bought hybrid Moreton and Ramapo tomato seeds (only $4 for a packet of 20 to 30 seeds) that were revived by Rutgers University. I don't recall its name and I can't find it on the website today but I believe it came from Thailand. About 10 years ago, I ordered Turk's turban squash and a spectacular small pumpkin or gourd like plant. Its founder gathered them from around the world. On its website, Baker Creek indicates that it has an inventory of 1,400 heirloom plants. The entity also has its own vegetable and fruit seed production facility in northern Iowa. It publishes an extensive catalog in which members list seeds that they have for sale or exchange. I was a member of Seed Savers for a few years. Among them are Seed Savers Exchange at Decorah, IA, the Missouri-based Baker Creek (and Rutgers University in New Jersey. There are also a few other wonderful sources of garden seeds. This limits me to production of quality radish during the autumn but the entire cycle of the cross-pollinated radish growth is attractive to honeybees, well into November of 2016. When compared to the seeds which I'd begun to save, I decided to plant only the seeds which I've saved from my own plants and haven't had any problem doing that.įor radish, I order some new seed mainly to enable cross-pollination with my existing perennial population carrying mainly Spanish winter radish traits. With the peas, I encountered many years of poor germination of seeds obtained from several suppliers. I have no idea what variety it is but it could be Kentucky Blue.
One of them is very dependable and productive. That's because I've built an extensive stock of home-grown seeds.Īmong the green beans, I have four different varieties.
I have no need to order green, yellow or purple beans or garden peas. Except for one plant which was damaged in shipping, all plants are alive going into the winter and promising to be productive in 2017. Its current seed prices are also high: $8 per pound for the wonderful Warba potato and $12 per pound for fingerlings.Įarlier this year, I ordered 24 black raspberry plants (three varieties) from Stark Bros.
I have a few loyal farmer's market customers for those varieties, which were very productive when grown in new soil for potatoes this year.Ī number of years ago, I ordered several varieties of potatoes from Irish Eyes in Washington. I'm going to order three pounds of German Butterball (price per pound will drop some) and two pounds of Adirondack Blue for 2017.