Searching for Seed
January 2, 2008 – 2:05 pmFew take the time these days to sow from seed, but it's worth the effort for so many reasons. I started sowing from seed as a hobby many years ago. In fact my first introduction to seed sowing was at age 10, when I was shown how to grow greenhouse tomatoes.The first and foremost reason to grow from seed, has to be the enormous variety of seed lists. Although seed companies rarely advertise and most only know the big few, I made it my job in 1995 to search out all the interesting seed companies from around the world. So forget all those common or garden seed catalogues, there are myriads of companies listed in my book The Seed Search. The first edition came out in 1996 and since that time the book has been thoroughly updated 6 times. If I was the kind of person to submit my books for awards like many ...