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Top: Shopping: Home_and_Garden: Plants: Seeds
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Sites offering seeds, seed potatoes, and onion/garlic sets for sale online, targeted at home gardeners. General garden seed offerings and companies offering a mix of different kinds of seeds are found at the main level, specialized offerings in one of the sub-categories.
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For websites focused on the sale of heirloom seeds. Sites must include product descriptions and prices, and provide shipping across a wide area. Websites focused on education or discussion of heirloom seeds should instead be submitted to Science/Environment/Biodiversity/Agricultural/Seed_Savers. more information (editors only) |
Heirloom seeds may be defined as those which are traditional or grown only in a specific geographic area, or which are not genetically engineered, or which are rare and in danger of extinction.
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Only sites that sell organically produced seeds will be included in this category. Indicate whether all or part of your seed inventory is certified organic. If not all of the seed on a site is certified organic, it must be clear to the site visitor which seeds are certified, which are grown organically and not certified, which are grown conventionally, wildcrafted, treated, etc.
Specify if the site submitted is certified under the USDA National Organic Program standards for providing Certified Organic (big "O") seed. Read the "Category Description" for more information about what sites are appropriate for this category. more information (editors only) |
This category lists sites that sell organically produced seeds. The definition for organic (with a little "o") used here is that the seeds have been produced using Earth's natural resources and which have not been exposed to chemical pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides, or herbicides.This can include seed that is wildcrafted or produced by small organizations. In the U.S., such producers may be exempted under the USDA National Organic Program's annual sales total allowance.
Sites listed here specialize in seeds for tropical plants and trees, including palms and tropical fruit.
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Sites selling ornamental, native and prairie grasses are listed in the main Seed category - this category is only for traditional lawn grasses. |
Grass seeds for lawns, for online purchase.
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If the site offers a mix of edible and ornamental plant seeds, it should be submitted to the main Seeds category. A shopping site will not be listed in more than one category, so choose the single one that is most suitable for the site you are offering for consideration. more information (editors only) |
Seed suppliers specialized in vegetables and culinary herbs.
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Shopping sites will only be listed in the single most relevant category of the directory. Only sites specializing in wildflowers and natives will be listed here - if the site offers a broader variety of seeds, it should be submitted to the parent category (Shopping: Home and Garden: Plants: Seeds) |
Seeds meant for gardening with native plants (where native can refer to any habitat or region) or for gardening with wildflowers (which usually refers to open-pollinated flowering plants found in field and meadow habitats, used in informal gardens).
Seed intended primarily to create habitats and feeding areas for wildlife, including deer.
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