Inland Northwest Gardening

January 27, 2009

Here is a collection of some of my favorite garden seed catalogs. Some from local Northwest sources and a few from around the country that understand short season growing or offer unusual selections.

Northwest based companies

Ed Hume Seeds
Organic and conventional seed company located in Puyallup, WA that specializes in seeds for cool and short season areas. Ed Hume is the most widely respected gardening authority in the Northwest. Order seeds online or look for them at local garden centers. Fred Meyer carries them.
www.humeseeds.com

Territorial Seed Company
Located near Cottage Grove, OR, Territorial Seed has seeds, plants, garlic and other growing supplies. They provide conventional and organic seed that they produce themselves. This means there are lots of hard to find varieties in their catalog. They were charter signers of the Safe Seed Pledge that states they do not knowingly grow or purchase genetically modified seed.
PO Box 156
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
888-657-3131
www.territorialseed.com

Nichols Garden Nursery
Located in Albany, OR, this family run nursery has been in business for 60 years. They specialize in herbs, vegetables, cover crops, cheese making supplies, essential oils and herb teas.
1190 Old Salem Rd NE
Albany, OR 97321-4580
800-422-3985
www.nicholsgardennursery.com

Raintree Nursery
Located in Morton, WA between Vancouver and Centralia. Want to grow fruit in your garden? How about unusual berries and tree fruit? This is the place to go. They specialize in fruit from around the world that will do well in the Northwest. Have rootstock for some tree fruits and will do custom grafting if you take you scion wood to the nursery.
391 Butts Rd
Morton, WA 98356
360-496-6400 Fax 888-770-8358
www.raintreenursery.com

Other Really Good Seed Catalogs

Seeds of Change
The premier certified organic seed company in the US. Specializes in vegetable, herb and flower seed and tools for low impact, sustainable gardening.
www.seedsofchange.com
888-762-7333

Pinetree Garden Seed
This catalog is a sleeper. It’s full of uncommon varieties of well known vegetables plus a great range of Italian, Middle Eastern and Asian vegetables; vegetables for containers, flowers and some fruits. It has a great section on gardening, cook and garden craft books and ends with a selection on gardening supplies and tools. Many of the items in this section I have not seen in other catalogs.
PO Box 300
Gloucester, ME 04260
Fax 888-52 seeds
www.superseeds.com

Bear Creek Heirloom Seed
If you want heirloom, open pollinated seed, this is a great source. They offer only non-hybrid, non-GMO, untreated and non-patented seed. As a result there are many unusual and uncommon seed varieties. They also are a great link into the old time farming practices and lifestyle and host websites on seed history, a gardening forum and a magazine.
2278 Baker Creek Road
Mansfield, MO 65704
417-924-8917
www.rareseeds.com

Johnny’s Selected Seeds
This is one of the best catalogs for market gardeners. It not only has a great selection of conventional and organic vegetable and flower varieties but lots of really good information on crop yields, detailed growing information and other information that takes the guesswork out of growing a garden or a commercial crop.
955 Benton Ave., Winslow ME 04901
877-564-6697
www.johnnyseeds.com

Veseys Seeds
Another good solid seed source for gardeners in northern climates. Has good range of varieties and some interesting collections that have several varieties of vegetables in them.
PO Box 9000
Calais, ME 04619
800-363-7333
www.veseys.com

John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seed
If you love to cook what you grow, check this catalog out. It carries a small but very unique selection of uncommon vegetable, herb and flower varieties from around the world including Italian and Asian varieties.
23 Tulip Drive
Bantam, CT 06750
860-567-6086
www.kitchengardenseeds.com

For you organic gardeners there is a really good list of organic supplies at Chrys Ostrander’s website  www.thefutureisorganic.net. Chrys is the leading organic grower in the Inland Northwest and a fountain of information.