The Seasons of the Garden
Selecting hardy varieties helps your vegetable garden thrive, also includes the gardener's bookshelf and rare and uncommon seed houses.
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Choose hardy varieties and your vegetable garden will thrive
PHOTO BY WALTER CHANDOHA
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Under still-chilly banks of brown-tinted, aging snow, slow
droplets of melt soften the awakening soil. Brave, bright
crocuses break the newly thawed earth, mild breezes compete
with the last of winter's cold winds, and eager
gardeners—won dering if it's still too early
to plant a few rows of peas—rejoice in the opening
scenes of spring's stately pageantry.
Occasionally—with all the hoopla about the new flower
and vegetable introductions from the "big boys"—we
tend to forget about the offerings of small seed
houses. Yet such firms are often quietly working to
preserve varieties that have never even been
included in—or have all but disappeared
from—the larger catalogs.
The Abundant Life Seed Foundation (Dept. TMEN,
P.O. Box 772, Port Townsend, Washington 98368), for
example, specializes in plants native to the North Pacific
Rim ... especially rare and endangered species that are not
generally commercially available. The foundation offers
seeds of trees and shrubs, garden and wild flowers, herbs,
vegetables (all open-pollinated and untreated), and sprouts
... and will even barter for needed seeds, tools,
office supplies, or donated labor. So if you'd like to
plant a few Saskatoon serviceberry trees... or a stand of
thimbleberries or Himalayan blackberries ... or a patch of
Gramma Walters pole beans (perhaps allowing the vines to
climb the stalks of some Black Aztec corn), send $2.00
($2.60 in Canada) for a two—year subscription to the
foundation's catalog. It's worth every penny!
Another outfit that specializes in uncommon "kernels" is
the Prairie Seed Source (mail 50 ¢
for a catalog to either Dept. TMEN, P.O. Box 1131, Des
Moines, Iowa 50311... or Dept. TMEN, P.O. Box 83, North
Lake, Wisconsin 53064). The Prairie Seed folks are devoted
to the preservation of the prairie plants that
once covered ten states and two Canadian provinces
... but which have—during the past 200 yearsbeen
plowed, paved, or poisoned almost out of existence.
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