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Steps to Create a Simple Spring Seed Starting Plan

That’s Actually Fun!

This might sound like a drag, but I promise you, it’s pretty darn fun.

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Creating a simple spring seed starting plan completely transformed my seed starting season.

What used to feel like a hair-pulling mess of guessing, second-guessing, and starting everything at the wrong time has become one of my favorite early-season garden rituals.😊

It helped me clarify, simplify, and focus, and in doing so, it shifted my entire spring garden experience.

For years, I struggled with the same questions many gardeners do – When should I start what? – What have I already planted? – Why does everything feel so chaotic?

Then one day, it finally clicked.🌟 I realized I didn’t need a complicated spreadsheet or a rigid system. I just needed a simple, intentional way organize my seeds by timing. 📆

What followed was a surprisingly easy process that helped me manifest a calm, well-timed, productive spring and summer vegetable garden.

If you’re starting seeds for your spring and summer garden and want a system that feels nourishing instead of overwhelming, the exact process I use is below.

Why Seed Starting Timing Matters More Than You Think

Have you ever wondered why some years your garden feels smooth and abundant, while other years feel rushed and out of sync?

Often, it comes down to timing.

❓Do you do this? –

Many gardeners start everything at once. Spring lettuces get started at the same time as summer tomatoes. Some plants shoot up too fast, others lag behind, and suddenly the whole season feels a little wonky.

When seed timing is off at the beginning, it tends to ripple through the rest of the season.

But when you set this up thoughtfully at the start, everything that follows becomes easier.

As spring unfolds and life gets busier, your garden rhythm is already established. You’re no longer scrambling, wasting time, or spending extra money buying plants because seeds weren’t started on time.

Starting from seed allows you to discover more varieties, uncover better flavors, and harvest a garden that feels truly yours. And it doesn’t have to be complicated.

A Gentle Seed Shift That Changes Everything

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I arrived at this system by doing it wrong many times.

Sometimes it felt pretty chaotic.

Each misstep helped illuminate what didn’t work, until this simple process emerged. It now takes me very little time, yet it helps me foster, sustain, and thrive through the entire growing season.

Instead of reacting, I feel prepared. Instead of stress, there’s flow. Instead of confusion, there’s confidence.

And that’s exactly why I wanted to pass this along to you.

My Simple, Step-by-Step Spring Seed Starting Plan

This is the exact method I use every year to create a spring and summer seed starting schedule that feels clear, calm, and doable.

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Step 1: Pull One Seed Packet Per Crop

From your seed stash, pull out one packet for each type of crop you want to grow.
One tomato, one pepper, one zinnia, one marigold, one basil, and so on. This keeps things focused and prevents overwhelm.

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Step 2: Read the Back of the Packet

On the back of each seed packet, you’ll find guidance on whether the seeds should be started indoors or direct seeded outdoors.

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Step 3: Create Two Simple Piles

Based on that indoor/outdoor information and your own past experience, separate your packets into two piles:

Seeds to start indoors
Seeds to start outdoors

This step alone can feel incredibly clarifying.

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Step 4: Sort Indoor Seeds by Timing

Start with the seeds you’ll be starting indoors. Put them in order based on how many weeks before your last frost they should be started.

This information is on seed packets from companies that support home gardeners.

I usually end up with piles like this:

10–12 weeks before last my frost
8 weeks before
6 weeks before
3–4 weeks before

For example, through experience I’ve learned that here in zone 7 Virginia:

Thyme and basil do best started 10–12 weeks early
Peppers and eggplants around 8 weeks
Tomatoes at about 6 weeks
Squash closer to 3 weeks

Your timing may be a little different, and that’s okay. This process helps you tend to what works in your garden by giving you a framework to start.

You can put sticky notes with the timing on the top of each pile if that helps you at this step.

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Step 5: Sort Outdoor Seeds the Same Way

Next move on to the seeds you’ll direct sow outdoors. Decide which ones you’ll start first, second, and third based on what is on the seed packets and your past experience.

I also separate out crops I’ll succession plant, like carrots.

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Step 6: Create Simple Time-Frame Baggies

Place each group of seed packets into its own baggie. On the outside, write when that set should be started and if it is started inside, outside or outside succession planted.

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Step 7: Add Your Chosen Varieties

Now go back to your full seed collection, pull the varieties you want to grow, and place them into the appropriate baggie.

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Step 8: Done!

That’s it.
Your spring and summer seed starting plan is complete.

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Optional: Note Days to Germination and Maturity

While you have the packets in hand, notice the days to germination and days to maturity. You don’t need to memorize them, just start to become familiar with the range.

Good seed companies will have this information on the seed packets.

Don’t get hung up here and you can skip this if it seems like too much. This info can be super useful later for garden design planning.

Your garden year is simplified not by trying to do it all at once, but by starting with a simple schedule.

Garden Planning Clarity

If you want more clarity and confidence as you plan your garden, I invite you to grab my free PDF – How to Start a Vegetable Garden Checklist. It will help you stay on track with all the tasks to start your veggie garden and set your garden up for success from the very beginning.

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You’ll also have an option to join my newsletter, where I share professional, practical garden guidance to help you simplify, focus, and grow a vegetable garden that’s productive, beautiful, and abundant.

And I’d love to hear from you, what part of seed starting feels most confusing right now, or what has shifted for you after reading this? Share in the comments and let’s grow together.

Your garden year is simplified not by trying to do it all at once, but by starting with a simple schedule.

Debby, Your Garden Coach

How to Choose Seed Companies (Without the Overwhelm)

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Not all seed companies are the same.

In fact, they can be wildly different—not just in the types of seeds they carry, but in the values, practices, and priorities behind those seeds.

And when we’re in a hurry, it’s so easy to just grab the first packet we see. But as conscious gardeners, we know better.

We bring so much intention to our soil, our plants, and our gardens, so why not bring that same intention to the companies we support?

Over the years, I’ve noticed something: seed companies, much like people, all have their own personalities.

😀Some are focused solely on organic growing.

🕰️Some are deeply committed to preserving heirloom varieties.

💰Some are shaped by the bottom line more than anything else.

➡️Some pour their energy into creating new varieties—sometimes organic, sometimes conventional, and sometimes genetically modified.

And then there’s the human side of it:

How they communicate.
How they treat their customers.
How transparent they are about what they sell.

These things matter more than we often realize.

Think of choosing a seed company the same way you think of meeting new people.

Sometimes you meet someone and instantly click—you just get each other. A warm friendship forms, and it lasts for years.

Other times, you meet someone who is perfectly fine, perfectly kind, but they’re simply not your person. They don’t quite align with where you are right now or what you value.

Seed companies are the same way.

😊When you choose one that aligns with your gardening values, it feels good. You know your money is supporting practices you stand behind. You know the seeds you’re planting carry the intentions you care about. And the whole process becomes simpler, smoother, and more joyful.

But how do you decide what seed company to buy from?

That’s the question I kept asking myself.

And eventually, I realized I needed a way to vet seed companies that wasn’t based on impulse or convenience.

Something clear and grounded that helped me quickly see who truly aligned with my gardening philosophy.

So I created a set of 15 criteria to help people evaluate seed companies. – people like you.

These criteria simplify everything.

They will help you understand not only what a company offers, but who they are—what they stand for, how they operate, and whether their practices support the kind of organic gardening life you are committed to cultivating.

And now I’m sharing them with you, because I know how overwhelming this choice can feel when you’re trying to do right by your garden and the wider world.

If you’d like to make this whole seed company choice process easier, you can get the full list of criteria for free here:

I hope these help you make choices that feel aligned, empowering, and clear—because you deserve that ease. And your garden does too.

If you have your own way of choosing seed companies, I’d love to hear about it. Feel free to leave a comment or share this post with another gardener who might find it helpful. 🌿

Simple Formula to Know When to Start Your Seedlings

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Have you wanted to start some spring and summer plants from seed, but don’t know the best time to start them?

Perhaps you tend to start “late” and then your seedlings are tiny when it is time to plant them in your garden and you go out and buy plants anyway.

Whether either of these are you, or you simply want a simple formula to start your seedlings, this post is for you.

Know when to start your seedlings

On most seed packets you will find some useful information.

Recently I came across someone’s post who said they never read the seed packets and just wing it. They also lamented that their seedlings weren’t ready when they wanted to put in the in the ground.

The simple solution is to read the seed packets and follow this formula.

It has four parts.

Days to Germination
Days to Maturity
Planting Time
Last Frost Date

Let’s start by defining a couple of terms.

Days to Germination

You’ll see this on the seed packets, sometimes listed as “days to sprout” or “days to emerge”.

This will be a number and is the average number of days from the day you plant the seed, you can expect to see the seedling come up.

Various factors play a part in how close to that number of days your seedlings sprout.

For example, older seeds tend to take longer to sprout.

Some seeds prefer warmer temperatures, some cooler. Some need light to germinate, and therefore should not be covered, some want darkness to germinate. These are the things you learn by reading your seed packets.

Days to Maturity

You might also see this listed as “days to harvest” or it might simply say “days”.

This means the average number of days from the time the seedling sprouts to when you can expect to harvest it, or for it to bloom.

Again, climatic factors can modify when your tomato plant is pumping out tomatoes, or your zinnias are blooming.

Planting Time

Planting time depends on a couple of factors. First, if the plant likes it warm or cool.

Spring crops that like it cool will want more cool days in your garden to mature, where as your summer crops may not want to get planted in until cold weather has passed (more on that a bit).

The Seed Starting Timing Formula

The formula is calculated like this.

Pick the planting time, then calculate backwards, the Days to Maturity, then the Days to Germinate.

In the real world, you will do these in reverse order. 1, 2, then 3.

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Last Frost Date

To choose when you put your seedlings in your garden, we use the last frost date for your area. This means the last average date you can expect you won’t get frost for the summer.

This date is calculated in the US by the USDA Planting Zones. They update the zones and dates every four years.

You can put in your zip code on their website and it will tell you your planting zone and your last and first frost dates. (Your first frost will be in your autumn.)

So that is it! A simple formula, based on when your seedlings want to be planted.

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5 Simple Steps to Seed Starting Success

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Fellow gardeners take heart that spring will come and the snow will melt! In the meantime, starting seeds indoors helps keep the winter blues away.

Here are 5 simple steps to successful start your plants indoors:

Choose high quality seed from a reputable seed company. As an organic grower, you understand the importance of your food choices. By choosing seed companies who have a reputation for sustainability, you have a valuable voice in shaping how seeds are grown in the future. For the criteria I used to vet seed companies, click h ere.

Pick crops to start indoors that transplant well like tomatoes, peppers, basil, marigolds, squash, melons and cucumbers. Read your seed catalogs or the back of seed packets to see if that type of plant is good started indoors. Some crops like spinach an corn don’t like being transplanted and need to be direct seeded.

Use quality organic seed starting mix. Either choose an organic mix from a reputable company or make your own with a peat substitute like coco fiber, mixed with organic vermiculite and perlite. If you are buying a product, look for it to have mycorrhizal fungus in it to boost root production. If you are making your own mix, add it in.

Give your seedlings lots of light and warmth. You can set up a simple home seedling rack with 3’ shop lights over a shelf that can hold 5 seedling trays. Building it yourself will save you money.

Read my post on building your own seed starting rack, here.

Start your seedlings at the right time. Seed catalogs and packets will tell you when to start your seedlings. For example, tomatoes can be started 6-8 weeks before your last frost date. Cucumbers, melons and squash are generally started 2 – 4 weeks before they will be planted out. Remember to add in time for hardening off. Read my post on hardening-off here.

How to Harden off Seedlings for Spring Crops

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As temperatures warm up, crocus and daffodils lift themselves toward the sun, for those who have started seedlings indoors, the question often comes, now what?

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What does it mean to harden off before transplanting?

This question comes up often this time of year.

Hardening off is literally hardening your seedling up to be ready to be out in the big outside world of your garden.

Like human babies, they have been nurtured indoors and kept in safe, protected spaces. Also, like human babies, you don’t lay them out on a blanket in full sun without protection and leave them there to fend for themselves.

Hardening off seedling fosters your seedling so they are able to withstand…

Full sun, which is way stronger than your grow lights.
Heavy rains that could batter and destroy young leaves.
High winds that can rip tender leaves.

For us gardeners, hardening off a seedlings is a quicker process than raising children.

Can I Harden off seedlings quickly?

Generally, the process takes two weeks, or less.

My students have often heard me say it can be the most time-consuming part of starting seeds indoors yourself. But, don’t despair, it is not hard and you can do it around your work schedule.

You might ask, can I skip this step? Of course you can, but you are taking a risk of your seedlings dying, and why would you want to do that when you took the time to start them indoors?

Before you transplant the seedlings you started indoors, harden them off so they can thrive in your garden.

The hardening off process tends to take less time for spring crops than for summer ones. For this post, I am concentrating on spring crops, I can address, summer, fall and winter crops in later posts.

That said, the general idea is the same.

The first consideration is how different is it outside than inside. The bigger the temperature and light difference, the longer it takes to harden off your seedlings.

How long it takes depends on these differences or similarities.

How to Harden off Seedlings Before Planting

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Remember that outdoor full sun is very different from indoor lights of any kind. It is much stronger. Yet, in spring the sun is still lower in the sky, therefore the sun is not as intense as it is in the long hot days of summer.

Steps for hardening off spring crops:

Start by putting your spring seedlings; such as lettuce, kale, cabbage and broccoli 🥦, outdoors in shade, or on a cloudy day for four hours.

Gradually give your seedlings full sun. Start with one or two hours. The cooler the temps, the longs they can take full sun.

Over a week or two, allow them to have more full sun a couple of hours a day.

Top tips for hardening off your seedlings

💦Be sure they are watered well as they will take up more water as they acclimate to their new environment.

❄️Remember, spring crops like it cool, not hot, so tend to like cool spring nights. If you have nighttime temperatures in the 40s, you could leave them outside in a protected area.

🌧💨Don’t leave your seedlings exposed to heavy winds or rains. Keep them either inside on those days, or keep them outside protected.

🦌If you have critters around who might want to eat your plants, harden them off where critters can’t get to them.

⌛If you work off-site full time. Check the weather before you leave in the morning to decide where you can safely leave your seedlings while you are gone.

Process & Budget Tips to Get Ready for Seed Starting

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Sometime in January or February I really start honing in on starting seeds indoors for my spring and summer plants. It occurred to me, the steps I take to get ready to start my seeds could be useful for you, so here we go …

I start by deciding what I want to grow in the spring and follow-on for the summer. Make a list of what you want to grow, using variety names where you know them. Also make notes about what you’d like to try that would be new for you. Include any types of crops you would like to replace because they did not do well. This could be a type of crop, like broccoli, or it could be that a variety that didn’t do well, so you want to find another one to try.

image of seed inventory spreadsheet page — Your seed inventory can be in a spreadsheet, notebook, jotted on a peice of paper or on your phone.

At some point in this process, do an inventory of your seeds and see what gaps you might have between what seeds you have and what is on your list of plants to grow.

By Mid-January I have received most of my seed catalogs, although there are a couple stragglers in February. Once you have your list of what seeds you need, then you can go through your catalogs and see who has what you want.

When looking for a new variety, compare not only different choices in one catalog, but in more than one. If you think you have found a variety you want to try, see if any of your other seed companies carry it and read their description also. More information on the variety helps you hone in on the best variety for you to try based on your goals.

Granted, I tend to go through each catalog when I get it and then multiple times thereafter. I’ll put a tick mark by anything that looks interesting and I might want to get.

I make a photo copy of the order form so as I start to hone in on what I want to get, I can use the form while looking at the catalogs. That way I am not constantly looking in each catalog for where the order form is. I don’t send the forms in, I will call (first choice) or order online, but having the list makes the ordering processing faster, simpler and easier, plus I can calculate any tax or shipping for budgeting. I can also check my list against the packing list when the seeds come in.

I’ll fill out the forms in pencil, so when I see the total cost of them all, which is pretty much always more than I want to spend, I can go back and erase what I cut out to stay in budget. Alternatively, I’ll star the items I am not going to order, or erase the price, so it does not end up in the total. This way I have the list of everything I wanted to grow in case my budget allows for another seed order later.

Which leads to another budget tip. Spread out ordering from your preferred companies. Order from the ones who have the first seeds you need to start and order last from companies with varieties you can start later. I will sometimes adjust who I am buying what from for this purpose. If I see something I want to grow in the fall, I will often wait to order those varieties until June when I’ll be needing to get them started.

Enjoy a cup of tea and browsing those seed catalogs!

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Build Your Own Seed Starting Rack

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Hi folks, I friend messaged me this week asking if I could recommend a seed starting rack. She is in Wisconsin, so getting started now with her seed starting.

I confess I have little experience with pre-made seed starting racks and systems. I have been gifted with one, but I don’t like it as well as the one my sweetheart made.

Here is the Materials List:

Found plywood, 2×2, 2×4
Shop lights
Chain
Hooks
Screws
Wire
Switch box/s
Timer

General process to build your own seed starting rack:

Decide where you want to put your rack. It is best if you can place it in front of a window that gets good light as this will enhance the productivity of your rack. I can also say, it is really nice if you can place it in a permanent location. Ours was built with screws so it can be taken down an reassembled, but frankly, since I am four season gardening, I just keep it up.
Consider how much space you need for seed starting. Small scale home gardeners may not need much. My rack holds 14 seed trays and that is not enough for all I grow. Most folks can get away with one bank of lights which will cover two to four standard sized seed trays. A double bank will give you space for four or five seed trays.
I prefer to use found wood instead of buying new since so much is thrown out these days. We used wood found in a dumpster in back of a store, and some left over from a job.
Build the thing. It can be as simple or complicated as you make it. I have the advantage of having a partner who is a contractor, so he built and wired switches for me.

The best way to show you how we build it is in photos .. so here you go …

DYI Seed Starting Rack — My homemade three tired seed starting rack – front view. The rack has three shelves and uses old shop lights. We found some of these in the trash, some were from a friend who was getting rid of them. Each shelf has two banks of two lights. I use old fashioned ones to have the heat for summer seedlings. One cool and one warm in each bank which is less expensive than “grow lights”.

make your own seed starting rack — Outside corner of the rack.

build a place to start seeds — Inside corner.

seed rack height — We used hooks and chain, attached to a bar on the outside of each shop light to raise and lower the lights to accommodate different height plants.

put your seed rack next to a window for more light — Inside where the chain is attached to the rack.

The top bank we just had lights so made a really simple holder.

grow plants from seed — The top bank we hung from the ceiling.

Wiring for switches. We have a switch on each side so we can turn on one set of lights on each bank. This allows us to put the trays in either direction for growth or saving electricity if we don’t need both sets of lights at once in a bank.

how to start seedlings — Bottom who shelves filled. I will sometimes put trays on top of the lights until they germinate to make more room, as in this picture.

Territorial Seed Company – 2017 Seed Catalog Reviews

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For years I have considered Territorial to perhaps be my favorite seed company although I really cannot pick one favorite as you can see from this series of posts. The reason Territorial Seeds has gotten consistently high marks is because they have such a wonderful large diverse selection of varieties, with most being open pollinated. I must say, for 2017, they seem to be moving into more hybrids to a disappointing degree. I prefer a large selection of open pollinated varieties with a few highly tested hybrids for certain situations.

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That said, they have made one major improvement in their already outstanding catalog. Territorial has always provided outstanding growing information in their catalogs, making it a great resources, but for 2017, they have improved the layout of the information, which now looks similar to Sow True Seed and is much easier to read than previous years.

Territorial is very conscious of offering quality non-GMO seed. Although not all their selections are organic, they do have organic options. One of the first seed companies we started using in the 1980s and the only one who has had the sustaining power to keep us coming back all these decades later.

Some interesting new varieties they are offering for 2017 are Sugar Magnolia, a violet-podded snap pea, Nurti-Red carrot, high in lycopene, Dazzling Blue lacinato kale with shocking pink midribs.

Wanting an orange cauliflower the variety of which is NOT owned by Monsanto (Cheddar is owned by them), try Orange Burst Cauliflower, a hybrid worth trying.

They carry many of our must have favorites including Blue Lake pole bean, Purple peacock broccoli, Alderman shelling pea, and Gourmet orange bell pepper. For red slicing tomatoes we like Stupice, Siletz and Carmelo. For smaller tomatoes try Gold Nugget, Chocolate cherry and Principe Borchese.

I’ve always loved their outstanding selection of lettuces. Some favorites include: Matina sweet and Victoria butterheads, Loma French crisp, Merlot and Two Star leaf and Flashy Trout’s Back (Forellenschluss) and Marshall romaine.

If you need or want a hybrid summer squash, Territorial has our two favorites, Raven zucchini and Bush baby, which is good for small space and container gardens. Considering great container varieties, Betterbush hybrid butternut squash lets you harvest butternut squashes from containers. Unheard of until recently, but we tried it last year and its true!

For those wanting to garden in all four seasons, Territorial has a Fall & Winter catalog dedicated to varieties for the cold seasons, including overwintering varieties. This catalog has the same type of great growing information you find in their Spring & Summer catalog.

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2017 Seed Catalog Reviews – Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

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For you local Virginians who want to support Virginia businesses, Southern Exposure is for you.

They are a great source of varieties that grow well in the mid-Atlantic and Southern states, including some local heirloom varieties. Popular examples include Old Virginia tomato, an heirloom of the famous VA Ginter family, Anne Arundel melon, grown in Maryland since 1731, Mountain Princess tomato from the Monongahela National Forest area of West Virginia, and Seminole pumpkin, cultivated in Florida by Native American Indians since the 1500s and now grown by Living Energy Farm in Virginia.

Even if you are in another area of the country, they are a wonderful resource. They have a larger than usual selection of collards, okra, southern (or cow, or blackeye) peas, and tomatillos. If you want to try your hand at growing natural colored cotton or peanuts, Southern Exposure is your seed company.

Interesting new selections for 2017 include Withner White Cornfield bean, an Indiana heirloom for growing up corn stalks, and Geranium Kiss, a red dwarf determinate tomato for containers.

Early White Bush Scallop patty pan squash has been a family favorite of ours since the 1960s and these folks have it along with our other family favorite, yellow crookneck. We also like Sweet Valentine romaine lettuce which we have not found elsewhere in recent years.

I like their selection of watermelons which include red, yellow and orange fleshed varieties.

Southern Exposure has a good selection of seed saving equipment. We always enjoy their selections for hot humid climates like ours, hope you do too.

Sow True Seed – 2017 Seed Catalog Reviews

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We love these folks more and more each year. Every time I open their catalog, it makes me happy. Their mission statement sort of covers why: “.. to preserve our shared botanical heritage and grow a new era of sustainable culture and ecological wisdom. We support independent, regional agricultural initiatives that foster vibrant, sustainable economy, and true food sovereignty.”

They carry only open pollinated varieties that ‘grow true from seed”, meaning when you save seed and plant it, you’ll get the same variety. Although they are not 100% organic, they support small farms who cannot afford organic or biodynamic certification. They provide seed from their network of skilled regional growers and independently-owned North American seed producers. That often means you are supporting small family farmers when you buy seed from Sow True Seed.

Want custom printed seed packets for your special event, business or fundraiser? You can get them from Sow True.

Sow True Seed has an impressive, very well rounded section of seeds, which can be hard to find from companies who don’t carry loads of varieties for each plant. It is obvious they really take care in varietal selection. This is a standout aspect of Sow True. They could easily be your only seed company and you’ll have a great garden.

Some of our favorite selections include: Jericho lettuce, Ashe County, Red Ruffled and Tangerine pimento sweet peppers, Hearts of Gold melon, Red Acre cabbage, Snowball self-blanching cauliflower, Ronde de Nice summer squash, Blue Hubbard winter squash, and Bush Pickle cucumber which is great for containers. They also carry Tam Jalapeno, a variety we grew years ago to make salsa for those who can’t take much heat.

Sow True Seed also has a fun selection of Seed Collections for those just starting out or wanting some inspiration. Their catalog provides useful information on throughout, including companion planting information, making the catalog a valuable resource.

Please support these folks, as they are a wow of doing the future right. Plus how awesome is there name?