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» Choosing your seeds, and a glossary
- For a wonderful (and very useful) labour of love - see Phil Cooper's Catalogue of UK Seed and Plant Suppliers by Mail Order; a listing of UK suppliers of mail-order seeds and plants, categorised, and including loads of small specialist suppliers.
- Are you as lazy as I am about labelling your seeds? A very neat, long-lasting, simple and cheap idea, using reclaimed aluminium sheets is available from Brian Pitts. You can be as creative and decorative as you wish!
- This is my own list of UK suppliers (last updated January, 2005) who include organic vegetable seeds in their catalogues. There are likely to be omissions and mistakes - please let me know!
- Suppliers in bold type in the first half of the list also supply heritage varieties - there's a glossary here
- Anioleka - specialise in heirloom vegetable and herb seeds.
- Association Kokopelli (Terre de Semences, until EU legislation interfered).
- Beans and Herbs - offer a collection of organic and/or heirloom bean seeds, as well as herbs.
- Chase Organics - for the HDRA; the catalogue I use most, personally.
- Thomas Etty Esq - mainly heritage varieties, some organically sourced.
- Future Foods - have sadly ceased trading.
- Heritage Seed Library - run by the HDRA, preserving and making available heirloom varieties and varieties at risk of disappearing.
- Ready-to-Grow offer chilli (including heirloom varieties), banana and palm seeds.
- The Organic Catalogue (aka Chase Organics - still for the HDRA, and the catalogue I use most).
- VidaVerde Seed Collection.
- D T Brown and Co.
- Chiltern Seeds.
- Samuel Dobie and Son.
- Mr Fothergill's Seeds.
- E W King and Co
- S E Marshall
- S M McArd.
- W Robinson and Sons - home of the Mammoth Onion, and lots more.
- Secret Seeds - organic vegetable and herb seeds.
- Seeds of Italy.
- Seeds By Size
- Simpson's Seeds, The Walled Garden Nursery, Cock Lane, Horningham, Longleat, Wilts, BA12 7NQ; tel 01985 845004.
- Suttons Seeds
- Tamar Organics.
- Thompson and Morgan
- Edwin Tucker and Sons. They come very highly recommended by lots of people! Their catalogue is a downloadable PDF file - or order a hard-copy by e-mail.
- Unwins Seeds, Histon, Cambridge, CB4 4ZZ; tel 01945 588522.
- Victoriana Nursery Gardens - interesting vegetable list.
- AlanRomans.com; fed up with high-priced seeds, Alan Romans now supplies a limited range of vegetable seeds in minimalist packing at 50p a packet; neither organic nor heritage - but might be worth a try?
- Interested in saving your own seed?
- The Seed Site - lots of information on seeds in the garden - sowing, storing, seed-saving, and germination. Also offers a handy identification guide.
- International Seed-Saving Institute - seed-saving instructions for 27 vegetables.
- Organic Herbs
- Fruit Trees and Bushes
- R V Rogers - nurserymen in Pickering, with a good range of fruit suitable for the north.
- The Agroforestry Research Trust - a charity which researches into temperate agroforestry and plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops; also has plants and seeds for sale.