A Gardener’s Collectible: The Whole Heirloom Seed Catalog

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds has produced the “World’s Largest Seed Catalog” for 2014.

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The folk at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds have outdone themselves this time . The same troupe that ’s sell heirloom vegetable seeds since 1998 has produced a special catalog for 2014 . And I intend limited .

This catalog is one - half - in thick and feels like a substantial book . Its 324 pages are fulfil with descriptions of more than 1500 heirloom vegetable , herbaceous plant and flower seeded player . The full - color effigy that illustrate the catalogue are lilliputian works of artistic production .

Each heirloom germ has a write up . As the catalogue ’s instauration states , “ These seeds bring history alert - literally ! Seeds recount a story about our cultures and our families , our states and our nation . ”

However , the catalogue is more than just a listing of seed . It includes stories of heirloom germ gardeners , seed Fannie Merritt Farmer and seeded player savers . There are recipes tailor-make to the heirloom vegetables that sprout from the seeds and helpful “ how - tos ” for planting and growing , for preserving and preservation . The sidebar on “ How to eat an Cynara scolymus ” was especially utilitarian .

One of the most interesting stories in the catalogue is bid “ locomotion to the Tribes : Seed Expedition to Old Siam ” by Emilee Gettle . In this short tale she describes her kin ’s trip to Thailand in scrumptious detail . The seeds they brought home are treasured souvenirs .

This catalog isoffered for sale($7.95 ) , and I think it ’s deserving its exercising weight in Yokahama squash vine . The write up of how this winter squash evolved is just one of stacks of absorbing heirloom history include in the “ World ’s Largest Seed Catalog . ” Baker Creek continue to produce itsfree seed catalog , too .

A Ukrainian seedsman , Ruslan Dukhov , is to give thanks for the raw heirloom tomato varieties offered by Baker Creek next class . Gardeners are last to desire to get their hands on the Green , Black , Pink and Yellow Vernissage varieties , know for their beauty and exceptional sapidity .

If you ’re an heirloom nurseryman , you ’ll desire to have this catalog to help pass the cold wintertime daylight until it ’s planting clip next year .

( I received a free copy of The Whole Seed Catalog from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds . )

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