SC - Gardening - Grapes and other long-term perrenials

[Stefan li Rous]

Magdalena vander Brugghe said:
> Good news - we bought a house!  I'll spare you the details (no matter how much
> I burst with them) because they're way way off topic;  But, this is a lead-in
> to some food-gardening questions.

> Next, I remember discussions of heirloom seed companies, but I can't find the
> old messages among the thousands saved for "easy reference" later... Would somebody
> please repost the contact information on those companies, particularly urls?
>  Similarly, does anybody know of any companies that sell saplings of fruit trees
> that were grown organically?

Check this file in the PLANTS, HERBS AND SPICES section in my Florilegium:
seeds-msg         (51K) 12/21/99    Sources for period plants and seeds.

Perhaps some of the other files in this section might now also be of
interest such as:
Palladius-art     (41K) 11/18/99    Palladius' treatise on gardening 1420.
Pattrn-gardns-art (12K) 10/13/00    "Parterres and the Jardins Potager
in the 
                                       Current Middle Ages" by Akim Yaroslavich.
 (This second one specifically talks about re-creating medieval gardens under
modern restrictions)
roses-art         (36K)  5/15/97    "Sacred Iron Posies" by Daniel del Cavallo.
                                       (medieval roses).
gardens-msg       (17K)  9/ 9/99    Medieval gardens. flowers.
gardening-bib      (9K)  6/ 3/99    Bibliography on medieval gardening 
                                       by Raisya Khorivovna.
gardening-msg     (17K)  2/29/00    Period and modern gardening techniques.
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THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
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