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Photo by Sara Dubler on Unsplash For many home gardeners growing their own nutritious vegetables from seeds, it’s not just the excitement of growing the biggest melon or the earliest vine-ripened tomato; it’s also how those fruits of our labors reward our taste buds at the dinner table. Noted cookbook editor Andrea Chesman, author of more than a […]

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Photo by Phoenix Han on Unsplash Internationally-known and highly-respected Virginia sustainable farmer Joel Salatin recently cited on his blog site a Clemson University research study. The research examined the results of conventional use of herbicides and their nutritional residual affects on the sweet corn typically purchased at your local grocery. His conclusions on the data presented should make […]

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Order your onion plants NOW to make certain you have plenty to transplant into the garden for a bountiful harvest of this versatile cuisine-seasoning “root crop” come fall. We start shipping to warm-season areas on January 28th, so don’t wait! Although Seeds ‘n Such also offers an extensive selection of bulb onion seed varieties, seeds […]

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As peer-reviewed scientific research data continue to confirm health-related concerns about ever-increasing numbers and amounts of chemical residues in our food supply, more and more parents and grandparents are seeking sustainably-grown, nutritious food sources to reduce exposure to chemicals for their children and grandchildren, as well as for generations to come. Due to relaxed governmental […]

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“Our new Seeds ‘n Such exclusive ‘English Sweet Long Slim’ cucumber (65 days), is an improvement on the ‘English Long Sweet Crunch’ variety we gave away to Early-Bird-order customers in Spring 2018, and it may well be one of the finest slicing cucumbers ever for the home gardener,” says owner J. Wayne Hilton. “It’s a […]

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‘Chef’s Choice Red Hybrid VFF’ tomato (82 days) is the fifth straight color in the Chef’s Choice series to win an All-America Selections (AAS) Award, attesting to its unrivaled flavor and unmatched adaptability. This new ‘Red’ has an unusually good balance of sweet, yet tangy taste to yield that fabulous, old-fashioned tomato flavor! Firm fruits […]

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As is always our custom, we proudly offer our Early-Bird Customers two packets of free seeds when they place any order by March 15, 2019! This season, our two new variety offerings are Butter Belly Hybrid Squash and Tonopah Hybrid Tomato VFF, and free packets of 5 seeds of each variety will be included in […]

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It’s funny how a 4 year old child’s preschool science project can remind us that Spring has indeed Sprung and it’s time to begin directly sowing certain seeds into the broken ground.  Clara, a four year old, brought home a small plastic cup half filled with soil but overflowing with bean sprouts last week.  While […]

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Our craving for sweetness (sugar) in nearly all of our food products has led plant breeders to seek out and select varieties with higher percentages of sugar content, but in many cases this has led to varieties that are lower in the precious phytonutrients that transfer protection from the plant’s pest-and-disease-immune system to our body’s […]

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