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 06-26-2010, 10:14 PM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 346 |  First time buying seeds online.
Wife and I will like to buy the following items...
.lavender
.chamomile
.peppermint
.lemon balm
Which place will you recommend?
thanks in advance | 
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| 06-26-2010, 11:08 PM | #2 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Phoenix Posts: 4,442 |
Why are you buying those particular seeds? Are you looking for non hybrid seeds? __________________
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| 06-26-2010, 11:20 PM | #3 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,562 Likes Given: 4
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- Seed Exchange - Swap Heirloom Seeds for Free was recommended to me. Not sure if you'll be able to get exactly what you want.
I'd think anyplace that sells heirloom seeds (non-hybrid) should be OK. __________________
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| 06-27-2010, 12:56 AM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 346 |
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Originally Posted by NitroxAZ
Why are you buying those particular seeds? Are you looking for non hybrid seeds?
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I dont know what non hybrid means. My wife wants to grow medicinal plants and also plants which she can make oil from. Mostly for soaps and house frangance too. | |
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| 06-27-2010, 12:06 PM | #5 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,562 Likes Given: 4
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Originally Posted by james_black
I dont know what non hybrid means. My wife wants to grow medicinal plants and also plants which she can make oil from. Mostly for soaps and house frangance too. |
Actually, hybrid seeds can be fine. It's the genetically modified stuff you want to stay away from. They germinate fine, produce what you want, but the seeds that come off of those plants won't germinate. (It depends on the product, but genetically modified corn is an often-cited example of a Really Bad Idea.)
What you want is a plant that will produce more seeds from which you can get more plants.
Your wife might also be interested in Western Botanicals. __________________
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. ~Ayn Rand | |
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| 06-27-2010, 02:21 PM | #6 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Phoenix Posts: 4,442 |
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Originally Posted by bkt
Actually, hybrid seeds can be fine. It's the genetically modified stuff you want to stay away from. They germinate fine, produce what you want, but the seeds that come off of those plants won't germinate. (It depends on the product, but genetically modified corn is an often-cited example of a Really Bad Idea.)
What you want is a plant that will produce more seeds from which you can get more plants.
Your wife might also be interested in Western Botanicals. |
+1. Good luck and let us know what you get and where you got them. __________________
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.'
Cash makes no enemies. So let's be friends.
"Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves." - Norm Franz | |
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| 06-29-2010, 01:21 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 346 |
We bougth the chamomile, lemon balm and lavender from this place Organica Seed. We went to our local Nursery and bought the peppermint and rosemary. I didnt see in the description if they were hybrid or non.
Thanks for the info on that. We have some spinach that is "seeding" and we look on the envelope and it said hybrid. So I guess we are not saving those seeds for next year.  | |
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| 06-29-2010, 09:30 AM | #8 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,562 Likes Given: 4
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Originally Posted by james_black
We bougth the chamomile, lemon balm and lavender from this place Organica Seed. We went to our local Nursery and bought the peppermint and rosemary. I didnt see in the description if they were hybrid or non.
Thanks for the info on that. We have some spinach that is "seeding" and we look on the envelope and it said hybrid. So I guess we are not saving those seeds for next year. |
No, hybrid can be fine. It's GM -- genetically modified -- stuff you want to stay away from. Specifically, strains that are designed to produce food once but which produce no viable seeds. __________________
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. ~Ayn Rand | |
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