A Guide to Garden Seed Catalogs

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on January 1, 1988
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So, to ease your pregarden doldrums, we've prepared a list of the major seed companies that supply catalogues.

A packet of seed today from garden seed catalogs … a bountiful harvest tomorrow.

A Guide to Garden Seed Catalogs

About the only way most ardent gardeners manage to get through the winter months–when most of last year’s carefully tended beds are buried in snow or mired in mud–is by curling up with a bunch of seed catalogues and dreaming about the coming spring’s bigger and better gardens. The whole family gathers around the supper table and oohs and ahs over the glossy pictures of early carrots dug young and sweet, and shining greens fairly singing with life.

The back yard grower, thank goodness, can raise tomatoes that practically ooze with flavor; melons perfectly suited to an area’s climatic quirks; succulent foods that don’t even exist in supermarkets; and even such exotics as red carrots and blue potatoes. And, surely, half the pleasure provided by such flavor-packed, site-specific, varieties is the self-satisfaction that comes with discovering them.

So, to ease your pregarden doldrums, we’ve prepared a list of the major seed companies that supply catalogues. Then, for good measure, we’ve added the names of some less well known companies. Write to any of the firms in the list below (don’t forget to add the charge for postage if one is indicated), and you’ll receive a veritable book of dreams.

Then, once you’ve finished going through your catalogue collection and laying out the umpteenth possible plan for your 1988 garden, it’ll be nigh onto planting time!

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