Dream of Spring With Tomato Catalogs
By Vanessa Richins
Much of the garden talk this time of year centers on hopes and dreams for the next coming season.
Some of the most exciting days in a gardener’s life are when the seed catalogs start arriving in the mail.
Here are some of the tomato seed and plant resources you should be checking out, in no particular order.
1) Tomato Growers Supply Company
As their website says, they have “more than 500 varieties of tomatoes and peppers, including huge selections of both hybrid tomato seeds and heirloom tomato seeds, hot chiles, sweet peppers, tomatillos and eggplants.
I have gotten their catalog before - this is one of the most fun to page through since there are just so many tomatoes!
How can you resist a company called Totally Tomatoes? Besides, as they proclaim, “There’s a lot you can’t count on when planning your vegetable garden - Mother Nature for example! But one thing you can always count on is Totally Tomatoes.”
3) Tomato Bob
Maybe I should start calling myself Tomato Nessa. It just sounds fun. Tomato Bob has over 600 varieties of heirloom tomatoes and other vegetables. You can order a paper catalog, or see a PDF version on their website if you can’t wait.
I am pleased to read that a special emphasis for this company is “providing commercial tomato farmers with technical instruction on converting their operation into growing heirloom tomatoes.” (as well as providing all of their customers with quality seeds.) If more farmers start growing heirloom tomatoes, it will be easier for the population at large to sample them.
These are just four companies I found that sell mainly tomato seeds and plants. There are of course companies like Park Seed, Burpee, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Seeds of Change and more.
Have you used these catalogs before? What other catalogs would you recommend?
March 10th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
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Our product is much easier to use than metal cages, stronger than bamboo, and wont rot or splinter like wood stakes. And, The Tomato Stake is made right here in the USA!
March 10th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I’d go nuts with a catalogue like that! LOVE tomatoes, but have very little space right now to grow them. I posted today about three varieties I’d stumbled upon.