Some Seed Sources For Recommended Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Berries

Finding Suppliers For Cultivars

There is a select but fairly lengthy general list of seedsmen elsewhere on this site; this page is a tabulation of sources for the particular vegetable cultivars we recommend on this site. (We do not here include either herb/spice vendors or fruit/berry vendors--at least not yet.)

This is very definitely not a comprehensive list of all seedsmen who carry any of our recommended cultivars. It is not even a comprehensive list of such seedsmen from our select list of seedsmen. Rather, it is a list of suppliers restricted to a few seedsmen that we happen to order through ourselves; you can see our comments on these and other seedsmen on the seedsman list linked above, but in general these are, we feel, among the better houses. In a few cases of unusual cultivars, none of those houses had the type, and in those cases we have listed at least one house that does have the type in question. But aside from those occasional exceptions, the houses we have drawn on here are:

• Fedco
• Heirloom Seeds
• Irish Eyes/Garden City
• Seed Savers Exchange
• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Johnny's Select Seeds
• Tomato Fest
• Tomato Growers Supply Company

(This listing is for vegetables only: it does not include herbs, berries, or fruits; we hope to add those soon.)

Each seed-house name is a link to that house's web site (indeed, to the exact page on which that cultivar is to be found). The idea here is simply to show you some satisfactory places the wanted types can be gotten from (or, in a very few cases, to note that the wanted type is hard to find at all).

Remember that besides actuaal seed houses, whether commercial or nonprofit, there are those 11,000+ offerings in the Seed Savers Exchange Seed Savers Yearbook, in which members--usually quite expert gardeners--privately offer seed of particular cultivars that they are growing. Membership in SSE is not just a passport to that delightful Yearbook: it helps support a wonderful and vitally important nonprofit organization doing literally vital work on behalf of all of us. Read more about SSE here.

Seed Sources By Vegetable/Cultivar

A "reverse list", by seed house that is, follows this table.

Available Vegetables/Cultivars By Seed House

A "straight list"--by vegetable/cultivar that is--precedes this table.

Cultivars shown below in green are available only from that seed house of the ones listed here (but often exclusively).

For 2007, the following items, which are not available through any of the multi-listing houses above, can be found in the Seed Savers Exchange Seed Savers Yearbook:

• Bean, Drying Pole, "common": Gramma Walters
• Melon: Fordhook Gem
• Onion: Southport Red Globe
• Parsnip: Student
• Peppers, Hot: Guajillo
• Sorrel: True Rumex scutatus

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