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 ello fellow Earthlings and welcome to the time of
year when seed catalogs come to the house and we start wishing
about plump, juicy tomatoes and cornstalks reaching to the sky.
We look outside and see chilly weather while inside the catalog
there are dreams of amazing vegetables and stunning flowers.
I get so many spring seed catalogs that I can't begin to look
at them all with the attention they deserve. But the few catalogs
I have been loyal to over the years never let me down when it
comes to visualizing abundance in the garden for spring and summer.
 There
are hundreds of seed companies that provide excellent catalogs
free of charge to gardeners wishing to grow common, as well as
unusual, varieties of vegetables and flowers in the garden once
the weather warms up. Some of my preferred catalogs are listed
below.
Ordering
seeds from mail order sources ensures that the seeds you plant
are very fresh and ready to germinate into healthy and productive
members of the garden. It also gives you an opportunity to grow
some of the more obscure varieties of your favorites. Many of
the garden favorites that are now easy to find at your local
garden center got that way because lots of gardeners found out
about them through seed catalogs. I used to be the only one I
knew that grew Brandywine tomatoes. Now they are at every garden
center in the country, when weather permits. There were a lot
of seed catalog users that loved Brandywine tomatoes as much
as I do and it got into the nurseries because of that popularity.
But if there weren't oodles of customers for this fine tomato
from seed catalogs, it never would have made it to all of the
gardeners that enjoy this plant today.
This
is why ordering form seed catalogs can be so much fun. You never
know when you might run across the best carrot or corn variety
you've ever tasted. At the nursery or garden center, you are
at the mercy of which varieties they think you want. So here
are a few seed companies that produce wonderful catalogs full
of incredible choices for your garden.
Any
of these seed companies will happily send you a copy of their
colorful and informative catalogs free of charge. They are my
favorites and will give you lots of ideas to improve your gardens
and have a bunch of fun doing it. Next time we will be discussing
roses and some natural care practices that will make your rose
garden a thing of unparalleled beauty. See you in the Garden!
Don's Choice Seed Catalog Suppliers
The
Cook's Garden
Box 535
Londonderry, CT 05148
(802)-824-3400 |
The
Gourmet Gardener
8650 College Blvd. Dept. 205SJ
Overland Park, KS 66210
(913)-345-0490 |
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Johnny's
Selected Seeds
310 Foss Hill Road
Albion, ME 04910
(207)-437-4301 |
Park Seed Company
Cokesbury Road
Greenwood, SC 29647
(800)-845-3369 |
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W. Atlee Burpee
300 Park Ave.
Warminster, PA 18974
(800)-888-1447 |
Stokes
Seeds, Inc.
Box 548
Buffalo, NY 14240
(716)-695-6980 |
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Shepherd's
Garden Seeds
6116 Highway 9
Felton, CA 95018
(408)-335-6910 |
Seeds
of Change
Box 15700
Santa Fe, NM 87506
(505)-438-8080 |
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Nichol's
Garden Nursery
1190 N. Pacific Highway
Albany, OR 97321
(503)-928-9280 |
Totally
Tomatoes
Box 1626
Augusta, GA 30903 |
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Bountiful
Gardens
18001 Shafer Ranch Road
Willits, CA 95490
(707)-459-6410 |
Vermont
Bean Seed Company
Garden Lane
Fair Haven, VT 05743 |
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Got questions? Fax the Doc at 760-632-8175 or email him at Curly mill.net. Don Trotter's natural gardening columns appear nationally in environmentally sensitive publications. Look for Don's books Natural Gardening A-Z, on sale
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