We need supplies of legacy non hybrid seeds since in the case of extreme war and economic disruptions, the companies that make the hybrid, non reproducing plants will no longer be fuctioning. Folks will have to carry some seeds over from year to year.
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You will find the Cindy’s list and my google starting search at the bottom of the post.
You will find many garden articles on the page and on the one before it, as I recall.
Yes, you can order next years seeds now, many areas are starting seeds indoors in Dec and Jan.
My first choice is the google, Sandhill Preservation, his seeds grew for me in Arizona and the Tomato varieties are honestly described.
LOL, he said, will not do well if you have a lot of sun/heat as this plant grows few leaves and lots of tomatoes and he was right, they did and the tomatoes burned on the plants, in the sun.
His nursery link is at the top of the google search page.
I also bought heritage seeds at Nichols garden nursery in Oregon, they have both and I have ordered from them 30 or more years.
Evergreen Oriental seeds in California, for oriental greens, which grow well in flower pots, and even in this dead soil zone, be careful as he and Nichols also have the hybrids.
Each year the dollar store sells seeds at almost nothing prices, maybe a quarter a packet, they are the good old varieties and grow very well for me, even here.
I have not had good luck with the big name seed companies and cannot afford to pay $5.00 a packet for seeds, that are the same as others are selling at $2.00.
I have too much open to change to a seed search, or I will crash on this dial up connection.
One other source that I like is the Pinetree seeds in the east, they offer a mixed variety packet of most families of plants and I have had good luck with their seeds.
Over the years I have ordered from many mailorder places and settled on the above.......Gurney seeds are ok, but never buy their bareroot seedlings. I got had on them.
Consider planting fruiting mulberry trees, they taste as good as vine berries are easy to grow and good for you.
Plant the trees away from the house, they are messy and plant more than you need, as the birds love to eat them.
Richters Herbs 357 Hwy 47, Goodwood, Ontario L0C 1A0 905-640-6677 fax: 905-640-6641 www.richters.com orderdesk@richters.com
An enormous selection of unique seeds and plants. On-line catalog gives descriptions and uses for plants. Catalogue free.
[This catalog is an education and they have seeds that you will not find any other place, or did 20 years ago......granny.]
From this link, which is a few [100?] nurseries such as you asked for: [Check the page for others]
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Thank you for sharing your ideas, they are grand ones that we can all use.
Check Sandhill Preservation Nursery and Poultry, for the type of tomatoes that you need, they have a large variety.
Maybe you should publish your journals, they sound to me like good reading.
I hope you will continue to post your thoughts here, in years past, there has been little information on saving seeds and breeding for better varieties.
http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/pages/seed_catalog.html
tomato:
http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/tomato.html
6,945 posted on Monday, November 24, 2008
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More links in 6932 and others.
UpCountry Miss shares how to save those seeds:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=6922#6922