Source of affordable heirloom seeds?

[silverhawks]

Hi all,

Going to be starting our liberty garden within the next month, and more than likely will have to start with transplants or gmo seeds - since our finances are limited, does anyone know of a good, reliable source for affordable heirloom seeds?

Thanks in advance!

 

[raystone]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=144822

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

there is a site that sells heirloom seeds ..for an acre. It costs about 127 bucks. survival seeds i think it's called...we are doing that here in my town, just looking for land. tones

 

[dannno]

I've bought seeds from this website and so far they sprouted:

http://www.dianeseeds.com/

Lots of heirloom stuff. I got the chocolate sweet peppers, some borage, their "exclusive" heirloom tomato "Purple Passion" and they sent me a packet of some other heirloom tomato seeds too for free!


Here's the Tomato heirlooms:

http://www.dianeseeds.com/tomato.html

We now have 107 heirloom tomatoes,
including rare varieties. Don't miss out
on our exclusive tomato, Purple Passion.

Red Tomatoes
Amish Paste
Aussie
Bloody Butcher
Box Car Willie
Bulgarian Triumph
Costoluto Genovese
Cuostralee
Druzba
German Red Strawberry
Italian Heirloom
John Baer
Kimberly
Magnum Beefsteak
Marmande
Martino's Roma
Mule Team
Nepal
Neves Azorean Red
Opalka
Polish Linguisa
Red Brandywine (Landis)
Red Pear
Red Zebra
Rutgers
Siletz
Stupice
Super Sioux
Thessaloniki

Pink/Purple Tomatoes
Anna Russian
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Beauty
Brandywine (Sudduth's)
Caspian Pink
Cherokee Purple
Chianti Rose
Cleota Pink
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Earl's Faux
Eva Purple Ball
German Giant
German Pink
Gregori's Altai
Kosovo
Marianna's Peace
Marizol Purple
Mexico
Mortgage Lifter
Oxheart Giantissimo
Pruden's Purple
Purple Brandy
Purple Passion Exclusive!
Rose
Soldacki
Stump of the World
Todd County Amish

Yellow/Orange Tomatoes
Anna Banana Russian
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Beam's Yellow Pear
Copia
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
Golden Queen
Hillbilly
Jaune Flammee
Jubilee
Kellogg's Breakfast
Marvel Stripe
Moonglow
Oaxacan Jewel
Orange Russian 117
Orange Strawberry
Pearl's Yellow Pink
Persimmon
Pineapple
Plum Lemon
Tangerine
Wapsipinicon Peach
Yellow Brandywine (Platfoot)

Black Tomatoes
Ananas Noire
Black from Tula
Black Krim
Black Pear
Black Plum
Black Zebra
Carbon
Cherokee Chocolate
Japanese Black Trifele
Mr. Brown
Nyagous
Paul Robeson
Purple Calabash

Green Tomatoes
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Big Zebra
Cherokee Green
Evergreen
Green Giant
Green Pineapple
Green Zebra

Cherry Tomatoes
Blondkopfchen
Brown Berry
Cherry Roma
Green Grape
Ildi (Yellow Grape)
Mexico Midget
Peacevine Cherry
Riesentraube
Rosalita
Snow White
Tommy Toe

 

[LittleLightShining]

I love High Mowing. I've been using their seeds since 1997.

 

[silverhawks]

Thanks for the info, everyone.

 

[ryanduff]

http://www.efoodsdirect.com has a can of seeds cheaper than most $40 + shipping. I think I paid about $47-48 total and have a TON of seeds. I started some seeds inside this year (actually Sunday so I have another few days before they sprout. Will be starting more outside on Thursday. For most of the seeds I started inside, I only used 1/100th of what was in the packet so I have them to use for years to come.

 

[specsaregood]

While I love these guys: http://rareseeds.com/seeds/ It just can't stop adding stuff to my cart on that site.....

Some friends of a friend just launched: http://www.freedomseeds.org/seeds.html?cat=70
Seems like good people but I havent used their products yet.

 

[XNavyNuke]

Aww. Who wants crappy heirlooms anyhow? [/sarcasm] Scientific American writer says stick with hard red golf balls.

The Case against Heirloom Tomatoes

Restoring Heirloom's Health
Now, Monsanto wants to do the same for the heirloom. In 1996 a tomato breeder and former Tanksley student named Doug Heath began a pet project at Seminis VegetableSeeds, a Monsanto subsidiary. After 12 years of traditional breeding with the help of molecular markers, he has created a new rainbow-streaked tomato less prone to cracking and also endowed with 12 disease-resistant genes. The original plant, Heath explains, had defective flowers, which is one reason why it set only two fruits compared with the 30 he gets from his new variety. He claims he is also able to maintain a comparable flavor and sugar profile even on productive plants. It turns out that the heirloom's defects are neither quirky nor cute, just an accident of a single-pronged breeding strategy left over from the dawn of genetics.

Note the 4/2/2009 2:31 pm comment by Mica Veihman, who just happens to be Corporate PR (according to LinkedIn page) doing damage control.

XNN

 

[pmbug]

Everyone is welcome to trade seeds (freely) at www.plantswap.net

 

[dannno]

Aww. Who wants crappy heirlooms anyhow? [/sarcasm] Scientific American writer says stick with hard red golf balls.

The Case against Heirloom Tomatoes



Note the 4/2/2009 2:31 pm comment by Mica Veihman, who just happens to be Corporate PR (according to LinkedIn page) doing damage control.

XNN

Wow, reading the comments this is definitely a disinfo job.. Now I'm really glad I have a couple heirloom varieties!!

 

[paulim]

RPF could start a seed-archive.
Everyone offers within the forum his self grown heirloom seeds to 10 seeds each pkt. for an e-cookie (or the promise to send one pound of fruits back later ).

 

[Roxi]

bump

 

[worl]

heirloom tomato problem

Most tomato farmers have no choice but to plant hybrid tomatos here because of a virus. For the last 5 years or more every plant dies after it makes a few tomatos. I've been told the only thing I can do is plant the disese resistant hybrid. If anyone here has any info. it would be apreciated.