Mail Order Heirloom Tomato Plants

Are your Heirloom Tomato Plants hybreds or can I use the seeds
produced bvy the plants and they will produce the some tomato plant
next year? I would like to also purchase seeds or small trees from
origfinal fruit stock and not grafted trees. Can you help or are
you tied toMonsanto and those of that ilk?James Yannes

I would like to share another wonderful garden site, they sell
over 20 different varieties of live garden plants.
www.gardenharvestsupply.com also offers many different organic
products for a more earth friendly approach.

I was really glad to see someone mentioned Nichols Garden
Nursery in the comments above. I've gotten an order from them
recently, and they're a great source for organic, heirloom, and
open-pollinated plants. I've also heard great things about Southern
Exposure Seed Exchange at http://www.southernexposure.com/. By the
way, I only looked at the first link in the article, which is
Burpee's, but only two of their heirloom tomatoes are organic. You
also have to specifically search for "organic" to find them on
their website. They're not listed under the "heirloom"
link.

Correction to my comment above: Nichol's sells mostly seeds, not
plants. They do have a very few actual plants, like asparagus
starts.

You've got to check out www.heirloomacresseeds.com ! Only $2.50
shipping on most orders and the best quality ever! They have the
lowest prices I've ever seen! Example: $4.25 for 1lb of purple top
white globe turnip seeds. They have all kinds of tomatoes too. Most
are 50 seeds for $0.95! Just check it out for yourself! You'll soon
be a faithful customer too!

the Herb Cottage no longer offers mailorder service

I ordered seeds from Heir Loom Seeds,
http://www.heirloomseeds.com/. I have not planted any yet as it is
still to early to start them. I liked their
selection....Bill

I can't believe you failed to mention and direct gardeners to
Seed Savers and others who have done the work preserving "heritage"
varieties which the major seed vendors, the ones who were largely
responsible for replacing the older, mostly open pollinated
varieties in the first place, are only now returning to.The
non-profits need support and deserve it for their work in keeping
the genetic banks intact.

Good morningI really like the new approach of Mother Earth News
toward homesteading, energy, conservation, more different topics,
you are getting into the turf of Consumer Report, and it's great.My
questions are very simple;1) I have been gardening for over 45
years, that it rains or shine I'm out in the garden, love it, it's
a great relax, I rarely watch TV, no sports, work at a stressy job
during the day. Until recently gardening was for me the way to go,
in order to obtain right on your own property healthy vege at a low
cost. But what I really can't understand these days, after
calculating the cost of the seeds, the plants, the physical
efforts, owning a decent piece of land, and be at the mercy of
Nature, you could buy everything so cheap you are wondering how
they can sell it at that price. Now it seems that everything is
coming from China, at dirt cheap prices, we, Canadian and American
can't even compete, there is no more fair possible competition,
it's plain and simple discusting dumping and flooding the entire
planet. We are all gone go broke, stop buying Chinese
products.Sincerely yoursPhilippe Demets

http://www.nicholsgardennursery.com/I was surprised the above
wasn't included in resources for seeds etc. They are GMO free and
have been in business for a lot of years. Please check to see if
you think they're worthy of including. Thanks.