[Sca-cooks] Seeds for period vegetables
Jane Boyko
jboyko at magma.ca
Tue May 23 19:41:25 PDT 2006
Hi Petru
Ritchies in Ottawa carries heirloom seeds but they do not indicate the
earliest time from. I picked up some very interesting radish
varieties. The company is called OSC
http://www.oscseeds.com/frames.html. As I am experimenting with
container gardening, am an archivist I thought that heirloom vegies
would be a fun experiment. Another company that sells heirloom products
(herbs etc) is called Richters in Woodbridge, Ontario. While I don't
recommend ordering from them directly for yourself (I have horror
stories from dealers and private clients) you can possibly order through
your local nursery if they order from this company. I remember seeing
an heirloom rose bush which they indicated had it roots in the middle
ages (okay, please forgive the pun). I believe it was dated to the mid
1500's. http://www.richters.ca/ You can order a catalogue and it will
give you lots of terrific ideas. My makes good dreamtime reading.
Marina
Patrick Levesque wrote:
>I'd like to know if you can recommend any reliable source for period
>vegetable seeds (Montreal is a 5B rusticity area, so I can't grow everything
>over here, but most of the basic stuff should be all right).
>
>As always, organic produce and local distributors are preferred, but I'm not
>too sure I'll have a lot of options in this situation.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Petru
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