![]() Renee’s Garden seeds are also available at independent nurseries and garden centers throughout USA and Canada. Renee’s Garden has taken the Safe Seed Pledge, meaning they do not sell genetically engineered seeds For the best selection, order from Renee’s Garden Seeds website. ![]() Renee’s Garden seeds are perfect for the home kitchen garden and make beautiful gifts. Founded by Renee Shepard, they offer a curated selection of non-GMO varieties – think tasty and easy-to-grow. ![]() Renee’s Garden Seeds is known for its beautiful seed packets and flower and vegetable seed catalogs. They also donate seeds for planting to school gardens, children’s hospitals, food banks, garden clubs, and non-profit farms that educate youth and help veterans.įind their seeds for sale on the Botanical Interests website and at many independent garden centers, natural food stores, and hardware stores across the US. Founded by gardening enthusiasts over 25 years ago, the seed company is now part of Epic Gardening (raise your hand if you’ve seen at least a dozen of Kevin’s helpful vids on YouTube)!īotanical Interests is considered one of the best places to buy seeds online, as their seeds come properly packaged, the website has fun sales and discounts, and their seeds arrive promptly. They are known not only for their reliable seeds but also for the beautiful illustrations on their seed packets. I’m looking forward to using these websites for reminders, advice and encouragement.Botanical Interests is a Colorado-based seed company that offers all untreated, non-GMO seeds. Now that we’re a week past the Spring Equinox, indoor planting is underway with tomatoes, onions, peppers, eggplant, broccoli, cauliflower and lettuce for my kitchen garden growing under lights and in flats in the greenhouse, but as soon as the soil dries out a bit, outdoor planting can begin. They also offer a Garden Planner that I haven’t explored but that one day could replace all the sheets of paper I shuffle around each year. The format is more table-like than the narrative format that West Coast Seeds uses but equally useful. Their Growing Guides link to a planting calendar and to extensive planting, growing and harvesting information for each vegetable. Territorial Seed Company has a similarly useful website. You can access West Coast Seeds’ growing information for all vegetables, not just those to start in March, from this link: And this additional link takes you to their very useful planting charts. I’m a long-time kitchen gardener, but I learned something new or was reminded of something I’d forgotten from each article I explored. Both lists are useful, but the even better part is that clicking on any flower, herb or vegetable on the lists takes you to a page of information with everything you need to know about planting, growing, harvesting, diseases and pests. What followed were two lists of flowers, herbs and vegetables, one for seeds to start inside and the next for seeds to start outside. Other seeds actually benefit from cool weather and the risk of frost, and they are shown below for direct sowing in March.Ĭlick on the links below for full planting instructions. Seeds started in March will be ready for transplanting into the garden by the time the nighttime temperatures have warmed up in May. I was prompted to explore West Coast Seeds website by emails from the company that showed up in my box with titles like “Seeds to Sow in February” and “Seeds to Sow in March.” Clicking on March, I opened a site with this introduction:īelow is a list of seeds to start in March. The websites of two of the bigger pacific northwest seed companies, Territorial Seeds and West Coast Seeds, contain the advice from their seed packets and catalogs, but they contain a great deal more advice because there is so much more space. Recently, though, I’ve found another source of advice that is even more useful: seed company websites. ![]() The advice is always useful, and I still double-check these sources to be sure I haven’t forgotten some particular detail. When to plant, how deep, how far apart, how long to germination and to harvest. Over the years, seed catalogs and seed packets have been my quick go-to sources for planting advice. ![]()
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