#seed catalog

[nemfrog]

Forties tomatoes. Burpee's Seeds Grow. 1943. Back cover.

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#tomato #seed catalog #red #garden catalog #1943 #1940s #string beans

[badatwritingstuff]

do you guys want to hear about some Black-owned seed shops?

Yes? Okay!

Aina Company (Hawai’i) [1]

Backyard Garden Seeds (Olive Branch, MS) [1] [2]

Big Fig N Vegetables on Etsy (Richmond, VA) [1] [3]

Black Thumb Seed Co (southern FL) [2]

Chef Ietef (Oakland, CA) [1] [3]

Coco and Seed on Etsy (Chandler, AZ) [1] [3]

Concrete Garden Seeds (Port Orange, FL) [2]

God’s Garden Girl (Newnan, GA) [2] [3]

Grow the Block Girl (website unavailable?) [1] [2] [3]

The Farmer Ken Shop on Etsy (Los Angeles, CA) [1]

The Hood Garden (zone 6b lol) [1] [2] [3]

I Grow Shit! (???) [1] [2]

Ivy Leaf Farms (Houston, TX) [1] [2] [3]

Let’s Gro the Garden Life [2]

Melanated Organics (south GA) [1] [3] [4]

Microbes by Marco (central VA) [1] [2]

Naturally Dope also on Etsy (Columbia, MD) [3]

Okra Lady Seed Shop on Etsy (San Antonio, TX) [1] [3]

Overflow Farms (Riverside, CA) [2] [3]

Polycultured [3]

Renaissance Farms (southern IN) [2] [3]

Seed Mail Seed Co. (West Palm Beach, FL) [1] [2] [3]

Sistah Seeds (Philadelphia, PA) [3] [4]

Soil Vibes on Instagram (New York, NY) [2] [3]

Soul Gardener 74 on Etsy (on hiatus) [1] [2] [3]

Tennessee Tropicals (Springfield, TN) [3]

True Love Seeds (Philadelphia, PA! AND ON TUMBLR!!!) [3]

Urban Farms Garden Shop (Zionsville, IN) [2] [3]

Urban Garden Project (Houston, TX) [3]

bonus Asian veggie seed vendors:

Kitazawa Seed Co. [1] [4]

SeedLoversVA21 on Etsy (Annadale, VA) [4]

References:

[1] What MJ Loves

[2] Princess Cole (aka the proprietor of Backyard Garden Seeds!)

[3] Black Girls Gardening in Containers

[4] me (peep some of my favorite Etsy shops)

@crip-walking-on-sunshine

@ladyknighttime

@spiralsketchbook ​

@tchallasbabymama <3

#seeds #seed catalog #black owned #shop black owned #gardening

[antiquesfreaks]

New episode up! It’s frog weather, y’all. Join us on our voyage to discover the root of scarcity.

#seed packet #seed packets #vintage seed packet #antique seed packet #vintage #antique #seed catalog #seed catalogue #frog weather #podcast #antiques freaks #root of scarcity

[inthecityofgoodabode]

December 2022: Five Decades & Two Years

The first seed catalog of 2023. The cover art is by Sean Gerard Clark: 

My queen went all out for my birthday: 

Seen while walking: 

This tree reminds me of a roper from Dungeons & Dragons: 

Bat house at the neighborhood park: 

The dog park at the neighborhood park is a repurposed baseball field: 

The dogs I’ve seen at the park love those berms. It is the closest most of them will come to running free in the hills:  

Birthday dinner. Those are some of our homegrown tomatoes that were picked green & have been ripening in boxes: 

Done: 

#seed catalog #sow true seeds #sean gerard clark #birthday #my birthday #birthday cards #seen while walking #trees #fall color #autumn leaves #bird nest #cedar #sea isle park #lichen #bat house #dog park #rainy day #gray day #dinner #steak #porterhouse #asparagus #mashed potatoes #salad #homegrown tomatoes #life in memphis #roper #dungeons & dragons reference #Dungeons and Dragons

[mannlibrary]

Illustration from a fruit ad from [R.M. Kellogg Co. materials]. 1960. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/12112289

#hands #hand illustration #vintage illustration #vintage magazine #fruit #horticulture #botany #fruit selling #farming #fruit industry #berries #strawberries #hand drawing #R.M. Kellogg #seed catalog

[ghettogardener]

#urban farming #self sustainability #seed starting #seed catalog #container gardening #cottagecore #gardeners on tumblr #hydroponics

[rat-hand]

#new fanfic terms just dropped #I had a good laugh at the seed catolog size chart #cucumbers #cucumber verities #seed catalog #seed catalog selections #fanfic #length #ao3

[scribefindegil]

hi it's my birthday you should tell me something nice you did or saw or made recently!

#my Nice Things: #yesterday we bought the BIGGEST most beautiful pomegranate i have ever seen #i have a real computer again so i've been freed from the tyrrany of Google Docs #we watched The One With The Whales on thursday and it remains utterly delightful #we're petsitting for a couple of guinea pigs and it's very fun to have Creatures in the house #and i may have finally cracked what was tripping me up with the next Brassica Heresy chapter! #also the ongoing joy of the Fedco Seeds catalog

[cookinguptales]

I generally spend summers out west visiting with my parents because it's much colder out there, which is better for my chronic illnesses. I figure that there's nothing much keeping me here during the summer, especially because it's not really safe for me to go outside when it's hot, so until something comes up that makes traveling for long periods less attractive (like a job that requires me to stay put, a partner, home renovations, etc.) I'm gonna keep doing it.

But brooooo the only thing that makes me occasionally consider staying here for the summer is plants. When I used to stay here during the summer, before my parents moved to California, I used to grow the most beautiful plants. I have this raised garden bed that I got when I first moved in and I've never really gotten to use it because I'm just never here during a full growing season anymore.

I have grow shelves in my office and that's nice, but it's nothing compared to actually being able to grow tomatoes and stuff in my garden. And OH if I were able to use that space out there to get a little apple tree! One of the self-pollinating ones with multiple varieties! Or one of the dwarf peach/nectarine combos...

I'd cry!

But those things need a little babying and I'm just not here enough to do it properly. Which is sad, because gardening is actually pretty good for my mental health. And while I love my parents' area, a lot of fruiting plants just do not do well in that environment. I love the plants that are there, but every time we've tried to do tomatoes or cucumbers or something, they just do not thrive at all. Way too cold and gray. We can grow pea pods, but I hate pea pods...

*staring into space daydreaming about franken fruit trees because someone on my dash had the misfortune to reblog something about plant grafting*

#plant grafting makes me feral #whenever people sit still long enough I always eventually start telling them about apple biodiversity #and how if you plant apple seeds they will not be the same variety as the apple it came from #and you can only truly replicate them through grafting #and that's why -- oh no I'm doing it again #once I did some stupid 'what ___ are you' quiz #and at the end they were like 'tell me something fun' #and I legit just launched into the apple lecture I'm so sorry I love the apple lecture #I took this class on food science in college #and I had to do a presentation on how to read and order from a seed catalog #and I honestly just fell in love with it I now read those things like they're magazines #sometimes I just daydream about being able to move somewhere with land so I could plant everything #but I know my body would never let me anyway #BUT I CAN DREAM...

[hclib]

C.H. Lippincott, Pioneer Seedswoman of Minneapolis

In 1886, Carrie H. Lippincott, a 25-year-old, single Minneapolis woman, in desperate need of money, launched what would become one of the most successful national seed businesses of the era. She was so successful, two Minneapolis seedswoman rivals soon popped up to compete for business—but Carrie had suspicions.

“My friends have urged me to print my latest picture, because a number of seedsmen (shall I call them men?) have assumed women’s names in order to sell seeds…I have devoted my best energies in the past eight years to building up this business and I have been successful. I have proved that a woman can do business.” - Carrie H. Lippincott, in her 1899 seed catalog

Miss Lippincott’s success is attributed to the fact that she sold exclusively flower seeds, which attracted a primarily female audience.

“I love flowers and I know that they make woman and the home happier and better; they brighten the dark pathways of life.” – Carrie H. Lippincott

Emma V. White, The Other Seedsman

Emma V. White Co. was one such company that Carrie Lippincott believed was actually run by a man. Emma White, was a real person, and was active in the women’s axillary of the Minnesota Horticultural Society. White lived with her cousin, who was married to the secretary of the Minnesota Horticultural Society, Augustus B. Latham, partner in the realty firm White & Latham. Carrie, and others, believed Mr. Latham was running the seed business, though there is no proof. Emma V. White Co. did outlive Mr. Latham.

See more local garden-related photographs and materials from the Hennepin County Library Special Collections in the exhibit The Seeds of Spring, on View at Nokomis Library through May. See a smaller version of the exhibit at Minneapolis Central Library through June. The above images are from undigitized seed catalogs in the Trade Catalog Collection.

#Minneapolis #women in business #flowers #seeds #planting #spring #Minnesota #seed catalogs #trade catalogs #women in history

[thebotanicalarcade]

n2_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The new guide to rose culture :. West Grove, Pa. :The Dingee & Conard Co.,1887.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43827994

#Bulbs (Plants) #Catalogs #Dingee & Conard Co #Flowers #Nurseries (Horticulture) #Nursery stock #Roses #Seeds #Trade catalogs #Vegetables #U.S. Department of Agriculture #National Agricultural Library #bhl:page=43827994 #dc:identifier=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43827994 #bhlGardenStories #flickr #rose #rosa #vintage

[anotherpapercut]

it bothers one of my coworkers when I talk about hating where we live bc she likes it here which is fair enough so I try not to but I really hate it so I forget all the time and then have to be like uhh I'm sorry about publicly discussing my disdain for living in a state/city where my life is constantly being threatened

#theyre trying to ban libraries from buying any materials that the lobrary of congress doesnt catalog #this would restrict our ability to lend out items like in a library of things as well as wifi hotspots laptops seeds video games etc #anything outside of the traditional books and av materials libraries typically have would not be allowed to be purchased #using tax money (most of our revenue) and fine collection etc. so i think we could use grants to buy things still #but like we would have to stop stocking toys and we even have museum passes which im guessing will be taken #fuck!! this!! place!!

[jtownraindancer]

I love gardening books~ =^.^=

Image I.D.:

Screenshot from the book Big Yields, Little Pots, by Rosefiend Cordell. Photo features a tabby cat sitting in a rectangular terracotta planter with the caption: "Terracotta containers are perfect for growing a crop of cats. Don't water them too often - cats prefer conditions on the dry side."

End I.D.

#burpee & rare seeds sent me my catalogs for the new year so here i am reading more literature #gardening #garden books #cat #cats #big yields little pots #rosefiend cordell #jokes #gardening jokes #cat jokes #shut up ace

[novelconcepts]

Hope you did something lovely on this Valentine’s Day and did not, like me, subject your wife to the Very Chill, Totally Romantic end of TLOU 2 because you, like me, forgot just how little of the game you had left.

#valentine’s day #me: you watched me play this part before right? #her (watching the end fight): ……nope. #I am so sorry. that was very much my bad. but uh. finished again? #maybe someday I’ll get through the first game #don’t worry she’s cataloging her seeds - my wife (stealing my phone and making additions)

[mannlibrary]

Message from the H. Cannell & Sons seed catalog. [H. Cannell & Sons Materials]. H Cannell & Sons. 1883. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/4958458

#seeds #seed #seed catalog #vintage marketing #vintage book #vintage magazine #vintage ad #writing #vintage graphic #vintage book illustration #eyes #eye drawing #Cornell University #H. Cannell & Sons

[ghettogardener]

Got a few more seeds delivered today. 2 different hollyhock packs, four different tomato type seeds, 2 basil, and 2 different Sunflowers.

Turns out Sunflowers are excellent for recovering soil health and removing metals and toxicity from the dirt.

I'm going to plant a bunch this year in my front yard to prep for a veggie garden for next year.

The wildflowers are for pollination and soil health as well.

#urban gardening #gardeners on tumblr #container gardening #urban farming #green thumb #gardenblr #cottagecore #greenblr #cottageblr #self sustainability #gardenbitch #soil health #seed catalog #hollyhock #sunflower #tomato plant #basil