Catalog List 2016
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| Inside our garden shed |
January is seed and plant catalog month. Catalogs pour in
from companies you shopped last year plus several new companies. It is too cold
to do much gardening but the weather is just right for dreaming.
Maybe your garden needs more vegetables, herbs, perennials,
or wild flowers that take less fuss and feed wildlife.
Whatever you imagine, online stores and mail order catalogs
can help you plan and put it all together.
Seeds of many native plants, perennials, wildflowers, herbs
and cold weather vegetables can be started any time through February and be
ready to plant out in the garden after the last freeze.
When you know what will be on your list, check out a few
vendors, their prices and shipping costs. Many offer free shipping for large
orders.
If you are avoiding GMOs, order open pollinated and heirloom
varieties. Vegetables in particular, can be easier to grow if you choose the
disease resistant varieties.
Almost all the online and catalog stores have monthly email
newsletters where they offer growing tips, sales and other useful information. You might want to set up a separate email
address to keep them out of your primary in-box.
Many seed and plant suppliers are
online only; companies that offer free print catalogs are marked with an
asterisk on this list.
Chiltern Seeds, www.chilternseeds.co.uk (unique British selections)
Easywildflowers, www.easywildflowers.com, 417-469-2611 (MO)
Eden Brothers, www.edenbrothers.com, 828- 633 - 6338
Eden Brothers, www.edenbrothers.com, 828- 633 - 6338
Jelitto Perennials, http://jelitto.com (German perennials)Johnny’s Selected Seeds, www.johnnyseeds.com, 877-564-6697 *
Kitazawa Seed, www.kitazawaseed.com, 510-595-1188
(Asian vegetables) *
Missouri Wildflowers, http://mowildflowers.net, 573-496-3492 * (MO)
Native Seeds, http://www.nativeseeds.org, 520-622-5561
Native Seeds, http://www.nativeseeds.org, 520-622-5561
Renee’s Garden Seeds, http://reneesgarden.com & Cornucopia
Garden Seeds www.cornucopiaseeds.com (value-priced
Renee’s seeds)
Sand Hill Preservation Center, www.sandhillpreservation.com, 563- 246-2299 (heirloom chickens & seedbank)
SandMountain Herbs, www.sandmountainherbs.com (herbs,
medicinals) owns www.herb-roots.com
(plant roots)
Select Seeds, www.selectseeds.com,
800-684-0395 *
There are dozens more companies than can be listed in one
place. Once you identify what you are looking for, search for it and you may
find new providers. The more you order from a single source, the more you save
in shipping.
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