Heirloom seeds and plants are
open-pollinated varieties grown during earlier periods in agricultural history.
A plant variety should be originated before 1950 to be considered a heirloom.
Some old types of vegetables have been kept alive within communities by
succeeding generations of seed savers. More about heirloom
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Seed are embryonic plants enclosed
in a covering, the seed coat, usually with some stored nutritions. A seed
is the product of the ripened ovule of seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms)
which occurs after fertilization within the motherplant. More primitive
plants like mosses and ferns do not have seeds and use other means to propagate
themselves like spores. Seed also has a meaning of anything that can be
sown - seeds or roots like "seed" potatoes, heirloom seeds. |
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a small company based in Bavaria Germany, specialized in ethnobotanical
seeds, rare and unusual plants. We deliver seed worldwide. We sell
only open-pollinated (non-hybrid) varieties (heirloom seeds). That
means, you can save the seeds year after year.. |
worldwide
shipping costs
for seeds: 4.00 € |
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Heritage Tomatoes
Tomatoes have been cultivated around the world for centuries. Heirloom tomatoes can be found in a wide variety of colors, shapes, flavors and sizes. |
Ethnobotanicals
Ethnobotany is the studies the complex relationships between plants
and cultures. In the Ethnobotanicals
section you find seeds from plants which have, medicinal or ritual
uses ("Sacred Plants"). |
Chili
Pepper Seed
Chilis have been a part
of the human diet in Middle and South America since at least 8000
years, they are one of the first cultivated crops. Peppers are now
grown around the world and used as spices and vegetables. |
Heirloom
Vegetable Seeds
Heirloom vegetable seeds
are seeds that are handed from one generation to the next - sometimes
for more than hundred years. If you grow heirloom vegetables in your
garden, you can harveste your own seeds. Many heirloom gardeners feel
that saving their own seed gives them more connection to the entire
process of growth and regeneration. The trend of growing heirloom
seeds in the garden has been growing in popularity in Europe and the
United States over the last years. |
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