Was that post title a little overboard? Sorry about that…I’m a sucker for free, organic, high-quality seeds, and (be honest) most of you, my wonderful readers, are too.
Part Two of our awesome giveaway week is here, and it rocks. (If you missed Part One of giveaway week, there is still time to go enter to win a copy of Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard from the guys of Seattle Urban Farm Company.)
High Mowing Organic Seeds emailed the other day and offered to send some free seeds to one of my readers. Yes, please!
This is High Mowing:
They sell organic vegetable, herb, and flower seeds. Don’t they look friendly, and pretty much exactly how you’d picture organic seed farmers from Vermont to look?
Why Organic Seeds?
All of High Mowing’s seeds are 100% certified organic. You probably grow your vegetables organically and we’ve all heard about the various ways organic food is better for you, the environment, farmers, etc. But you may not have thought about seeking out certified organic seeds.
There are a couple good reasons you might want to buy and use organic seed whenever possible.
1. Plants raised organically over several generations for seed tend make future plants that do better under organic culture. This is straight up adaptation at work. It’s like how heirlooms grown in one area over generations will become more and more adapted to the climate in that area. A plant raised successfully over time without the protection of chemical fungicides, insecticides and whatnot will tend to pass on genetics that make continued organic culture easier. A plant requiring more chemical help to get it to the reproductive finish-line (making seed) in one piece is going to tend to pass on more genetics for plants that do best with that same kind of chemical supplement.
2. Seed crops get hit with a lot of pesticides and fungicides (far more than typical food crops) which is pretty bad for the land and people involved in growing seed crops. In Oregon, for example, most vegetables grown for seed qualify for “nonfood/nonfeed site” status, which diminishes the labeling and pesticide residue test requirements for those crops. Further, since applications of pesticide and fungicide can be applied throughout the growing and seed development stages, minuscule amounts of these chemicals could remain on the seeds you plant in your garden. For someone very diligent about avoiding chemical inputs in their garden, that possibility alone might make the higher cost of organic seeds very worthwhile.
Thankfully, more and more growers are popping up to supply seed to organic home and small market growers, and so a broad range of organic seeds is now available from seedhouses like High Mowing.
So, About Those Free Seeds?
High Mowing Organic Seeds has put together several beautiful Seed Collections filled with up to 10 seed packets and worth up to $27.50, including this Heirloom Vegetable Garden Collection…
…and this Garden Starter Collection.
There are a lot more collections to choose from (Container Garden? Kids Garden?), and High Mowing is giving one of these collections away to one lucky NW Edible reader. The winner of this giveaway can pick the collection of seeds that is most appealing to them. Some kits contain more seed packets and are therefore worth more. Just so you know when you are thinking about which you’d want.
How To Enter
To enter to win this giveaway, leave a comment on this post telling us which one the new 2013 High Mowing seed varieties you’d most like to try out. You can see all their 2013 introductions on one page here. The Iko Iko Pepper and the Prinz Celeriac look great to me.
While you are poking around the High Mowing site, check out the Seed Collections and tell us which one you’ll pick if you win.
Contest details: entries accepted until Thursday December 20th at 6 pm PT. Contest open to residents of the US and Canada due to seed shipping regulations.
Good luck!
Update: Contest now closed. Congratulations to Aibrean, the winner of the seed giveaway. Aibrean, please check your email for details on how to claim your prize!
Which seeds don’t I want to try?!?! I’d love to try nearly every single one, but if I had to choose, it’s a toss up between Rhazes Lettuce (how pretty!) and Blue Coco Bean (does it taste like coco???). I also like the Summer of Sunflowers Organic Seed Collection–the year before last, I planted several different varieties of sunflowers on a whim and was surprised at how much I loved them. For whatever reason, I didn’t plant them last year, but they’ll be in the garden next summer for sure!
You had me at “free seeds”, lady. :)
(Of course, now I’ve got a shopping cart full of stuff in that window. My VISA may not be thanking you all that much right now. Ahem.)
The three new things in my cart: the garlic (spanish roja), the Klondike Blue Ribbon watermelon, and the Black Trifele tomato (despite the fact that I have roughly four billion saved tomato seeds from a bunch of heirloom varieties right now in my fridge. One can’t have too many tomatoes, right? Say yes, please. Please.)
Thanks for the chance to feed my growing plant addiction!
Heirloom Vegetable Lovers is the collection for me~! OMG everything I love & want to try. A juicers heaven~! I long for the taste of a “real” tomato & I KNOW that I will deny myself that pleasure until next Summer when I pick my own. Also I can just picture the ruby red juice (after roasting) from those gorgeous beets. Hold me back~!!!!
AGGGHHHH! You’ve discovered my weakness–SEEDS! I’ve found more varieties of seeds in a few minutes than I’ve seen for the past few years. My garden next year will be VERY different! Aren’t the Dragon Langerie Bush Bean the most beautiful beans you’ve ever seen?
The High Mowing Organic Seed website is going to cause some serious damage to my wallet. If I buy half the stuff I’ve already pinned, I’m going to have to sacrifice even MORE of my yard to expand my garden. Oh, well.
The Iko Iko bell peppers looks fabulous, although I must admit that I would also love to see the painted lady sweet peas.
As for the organic seed collections, I’d started with the garden starter kit. What a terrific selection!!
That’s where I bought my seeds last year! I’ll be going back there for the spring. My garden is a 10×10 ft concrete porch in the back of my condo so I would pick the container garden pack if I won. I also really like the looks of the Ocate lettuce. The picture looks so appetizing.
Not to sound rude or anything, but I WANT I WANT I WANT! GIMME GIMME GIMME! (OK, I think I’ve recovered now.) Erica, you make a compelling case for organic seeds. I hadn’t thought about the whole adaptation thing before, but it makes good sense. I would love the Summer of Sunflowers collection. It just exudes “happy” doesn’t it? :)
All of them?!? I’m specifically eyeballing the Cocozelle Zucchini, Winter Luxury Pumpkin, Prinz Celeriac, Blue Coco Bean, and the Red Swan Bean.
Now if only I had more space…
I would love to surprise my husband with the shishito peppers. He absolutely love them; grew up eating them, and we’re only just starting to see them in Chicago. He’d be thrilled.
However, as a collection, I’d have to go with the container collection. Wherever I move, I know I’ll be able to have containers. I don’t know if I will have beds too.
Of course, this all assumes I can make plants happen via seed, which I haven’t tried since I was in biology in high school…
I would love to try the Topepo Rosso peppers. We grow a few varieties of hot and mild peppers but I’ve been looking for a good variety to try my hand at making my own paprika and these look to be perfect! If I won, I’d definitely want the heirloom vegetable lovers collection. We’ve been slowly adding heirloom varieties to our garden every year and these would speed us up a great deal.
How exciting! Planning next year’s garden with FREE seeds is something to really look forward to. I just received the High Mowing Seed Catalog in the mail …..coincidence? I think not. I would be requesting the Heirloom Seed Collection (it was a toss up between this and the Garden Starter Collection). The most tempting “new” item to try would be the German Butterball Potato. Thank you to Erica and High Mowing Seeds for this offer!
all of them! but really, the Australe Lettuce and Garnet Giant Mustard are calling to me. My wish is to never have to buy greens from a grocery store again. Currently we’re growing kale and chard but have yet to find the perfect lettuces and spinach. Thank you for all your excellent posts, Erica, and for this wonderful opportunity!
I like the looks of the red roaster peppers, but I have never had good results growing anything but small hot peppers. The Topepo might work for me. I am also looking for a new bean for a trellis we have, so my eye is on the Blue Cocos.
For a seed package, I would go with the Garden Starter.
From the 2013 High Mowing Seed Varieties I would like to try the Iko Iko peppers. I had so many hot peppers this year I want all sweet peppers next year in my pepper patch. Free Seeds that really got my attention right away!!! I also like the Heirloom Vegetable lovers Seed collection every thing is in this one bunch to have a really good garden. Of course I would like to try the Three Sisters love squash and corn. Ellen from Georgia
I am a sucker for tomatoes, so I would really love to try out the yellow hybrid cherry tomatoes, the green tiger tomatoes and the annalise variety (which look like they’d be good for canning). I love cucumbers and never seem to have enough, but the Iko Iko peppers instead, would be fun to try as well.
Yay!
I’d have to go with the Topepo Rosso Pepper & the Kitchen Herbs Organic Seed Collection I think :)
I would love to try the Prinz Celeriac. I was hoping to grow some this year, but had to cut out a couple things to keep my seed costs from being too ridiculous. :-)
Orange chard! Or really any of that family!
Yay! High mowing seeds! They’re out east just south of us and I know their stuff grows well here. I’m looking at the blue coco bean, just because we’re low on space and the kids would love the colour. Oh my, I just found the artichokes in their regular seed collection, I think they would would look just fantastic as potted plants! thanks!
Makes me wish for spring now!! I would love to try the blue coco bean and baron mache. And as for the seed collections, I would love the winter garden collection. I have been trying to keep gardening all winter for two years now, and this would motivate me to be more organized!
The Blue Coco Bean caught my eye, as did the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s Seed Collection.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
Blue Coco Beans and the Des Vertus Mareau Slad Turnips look wonderful. I would love to try them both. The kitchen herb collection would really help round out my garden this coming spring.
Klondike Blue Watermelon looks particularly yummy. And the Bee’s Garden collection would be perfect for our second colony of little ladies planned for the spring!
Topepo Rosso Pepper
Great way to get us to look at the new stuff for 2013!
winter garden mix
Cocozelle zucchini! And the container garden collection; we’re trying some containers this year.
Oooh, I’ve never tried growing sprouts before, so the Fenugreek and Broccoli both look interesting to me. Then again, how could you possibly lose when something called the Klondike Blue Ribbon Watermelon is an option.
winter mix
Oh man looking at this website is putting me in the mood for gardening again! It will be our first spring with a real backyard and I’m just itching to get out there and turn all that space into something wonderful. I would love to try the Giant Corral Zinnia seeds and the green or pink tiger tomatoes.
The Kids Garden seed collection would be a great gift for my 2yo little boy. He loved helping me in the container garden I had at our old apartment and I want him to be excited about it here at our new house too!
Thanks!
Growing onions have been high on my list to try, so their new hybrid onion.
I’ve been curious about this company ever since I read the book “The Town That Food Saved.”
I like to try out a new tomato every year and the Black Trifele looks like a winner……the Iko Iko peppers too. I’d probably choose the Heirloom collection, but we are running out of “in the ground” garden space, so the the Container collection is in the running too.
Thanks!
The cocozelle zucchini looks good to me. I am always looking for a more interesting zicchini to bring a little interest. As for the seed collections I like the heirloom one. Looks like a no e mix of things I’ve grown and things I haven’t.
Black Trifele Tomato. And everything else.
Everything looks so fresh and delicious! I would love to try the German Butterball potato. Yellow fleshed potatoes are so beautiful and mmmm….butter.
The Heirloom variety seed collection looks very interesting to me.
I would love to try the red ciopinno onions! I would choose the garden starter pack, although the heirloom seeds pack also looks great! Thanks!
Oops! Meant red cipollini onions!
I’m a sucker for snap peas!
Definately Shishito Peppers. We love all types of peppers in this family!
The Red Swan Beans are gorgeous! I can’t wait to start seeds this year. I am rebuilding my garden area to increases its size quite a bit.
It is hard to narrow it down to just one. I’d love to try both the Blue Coco Bean and the Baron Mache.
I would try the red ripollini onions. I might choose the winter garden pack or the container garden pack. Everything looks good right now.
I’d love the Bee Garden kit, too cool!
“Was that post title a little overboard?” Definitely not, for free seeds I’d expect a happy dance as well. I think I’d pick Organic Blue Coco Bean if I have to pick one. If I win, I’ll have to decide between the kitchen herb and winter garden collections.
I would love to try the new Rhazes Lettuce, because the color is so deep and beautiful! For seed collections, I would love the Container Garden collection, because my space is limited, and I may have to move pots around at times to get enough sun. Looks like a wonderful collection.
All of these…so tough to choose. I want them all..:)
Wow, what fun! I am a sucker for tomatoes and finding ones that produce well even during our wet summers would be fabulous…I would take a look at their winter growing seed kit as well. I always say I am going to garden year round…maybe that would give me a good small starting point.
I didnt know they shipped to Canada, so that’s good to know. I’d grow the salad turnips. Turnips did uber well for us this year, but we dont eat many cooked, so salad varieties seem like the way to go. Seed collection wise, I’d like the new winter collection. I sucked at winter gardening this year and want to do better next.
The vivid choi looks amaaaazing! For me, I think the Kids’ Garden seed collection would be best. My four little ones love to get their hands (and feet and noses and bottoms and…) dirty, for sure. :)
Topepo Rosso Pepper look beautiful! When I win ;-) … I am totally getting the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s Seed Collection!
Wow! So hard to choose! I am a sucker for unusual tomatoes, so I would try the Black Trifele. And I absolutely love sunflowers, so I would go for the Summer of Sunflowers collection.
Winter Luxury Pumpkin! Painted Lady Sweet Peas!
Easy Salad Greens Organic Seed Collection and/or Kids’ Garden Seed Collection
Black Trifele tomato and Orange Chard…..(surely you didn’t say just pick one..I’m not going to verify, that would be too hard of a decision!)
For the collections – the container garden or the bee garden kits look grand!
Thanks for throwing a big gifting week Erica!
Oh my gosh – that new seeds page is unbelievable! What WOULDN’T I want to try??? The Black Trifele Tomato is beautiful, as are the Red Swan Beans. Both of the corn hybrids sound delicious, and I am always a sucker for tasty new lettuces! Plus the Gabriella Hybrid Onion – I’d need to try that just to see if I could get one as big!
As for the collections, probably the Garden Starter collection would be a good place to start, although the Heirloom Vegetable one looks fabulous as well!
Sounds great! I’d love to try some new seeds to go along with the ones I never got around to planting last year…
I think I’d go with the new “Silver Cloud Cannellini Bean” variety, and pick the “Organic Container Garden Organic Seed Collection” if I got the chance..
Matt Jarvis
Eugene, Oregon
These are my favorites!
http://www.highmowingseeds.com/Organic-Rhazes-Lettuce-Seeds.html
http://www.highmowingseeds.com/Organic-Shishito-Pepper-Seeds.html
I would love some Butterball potatoes. Our CSA grew them this summer and they made the best mashed potatoes I’ve ever had! If I won I would pick the salad greens collection. Greens grow best here in my neck of the woods and we can never get enough!
Would love to try those new leeks–I loves me some leeks!
I love heirloom seeds but the do.t always do as well in our one climate. I am hoping to start seeds for the first time this year.
Totally going to try the Black Trifele Tomatoes. That will put my tomato varieties up to 24.
Mmmm…the Black Trifele Tomatoes and Topepo Rosso Peppers look amazing. And the Organic Winter Luxury Pumpkins sound yummy!
Oooh, that Prinz Celeriac looks awesome. I tried celery for the first time this year and would love to try this next year. If I were to win I would love the Heirloom Vegetable Lovers collection.
I’ve heard a lot of great things about High Mowing Seeds–I’d love to give them a try. Two of the new seeds that interest me are the Silver cloud cannelini beans and the
My fair lady sweet corn. Of the seed collections I’m still debating over the heirloom veggies, easy salad greens or winter garden organics. Thank you!
I’d love to try the Red Cipollini Onion
Hi Erica! I would love the heirloom variety pack! Thanks for the opportunity to win free seeds!
Happy Holidays!
Organic Black Trifele Tomato!
From the new 2013 Seed Varities I would choose the Blue Coco Bean. I’ve just started to learn the art of lacto-fermentation and food preservation, and these would look great as a gifted jar of pickled beans!
From the 2013 Seed Collection I would choose the Kitchen Herbs. I started a raised bed garden for just my herbs last year and I need to expand to some medicinal and some for kitchen use!!
Oh – such wonderful choices. I want to try growing onions and garlic from seed but their lettuce and tomato choices look wonderful too. If I had to choose 1 – I’d go for the green tiger tomatoes just because they look like fun.
Oh the Heirloom Vegetable Lovers seeds please….. I love their seed and try to buy some every year – being on a fixed income is hard but it is so much easier and healthier for me when I grow my garden each year and try to freeze, dehydrate, and can what I might need for the year. Thank you for this opportunity. My family and friends thank you – we share ;>)
S-o-o-o-o-o-o hard to pick just one….I’d go with the Silver Cloud Cannellini beans.
Thank you for the giveaway.
~Anne
I would especially love to try two of their new varieties – the Shishito Pepper and the Black Trifele Tomato! They both sound like they’d be good eating!
Since all of my gardening is being done in containers right now, I’d love to win the Container Garden Organic Seed Collection.
Thanks for hosting this awesome seed giveaway!
The Black Trifele Tomato looks great!
There isn’t just one that I could EVER pick! If I win though, I would choose the Three Sisters Collection. Those are the ones I am interested in growing other than Tomatoes :) Good Luck everyone!!
Heirloom vegetable seed collection
Red Cipollini Onion and the Iko Iko Peppers look delish! Oh and that Mirlo Lettuce looks awesome too!
That black trifele tomato is the prettiest thing I’ve seen all day! And I’d love to get their Container Gardening mix, since we don’t have a yard but DO have a nice balcony. (I’m hoping to win the community garden plot lottery this year, but even so will plan to grow some things in containers at home, too).
I’m very interested in the Dario F1 Hybrid Cocozelle Zucchini because they are just so good looking.
The Hierloom collection does seems like a nice mix of seed if I won.
No fair making us choose! :) But if I had to…the iko iko peppers. Or the black trifele tomato. Or the German butterball potato.
I love High Mowing!! I’m really wanting to try the cocozelle zucchini. It’s supposed to be much better tasting than regular zucchini and we love squash here. The Iko Iko peppers look pretty fabulous as well.
I’m dying to try the Shishito peppers. If I were to win I’d love to have the Kid’s Garden seeds to plant with my daughter.
um, all of them? Wait, I don’t have that much room in my garden you say? Huh. Well, in that case…. ::goes to build more beds::
Ahem…. anyway…. If I could only pick one to try, it would be the Winter Luxury Pumpkin. We freeze a lot of pumpkin at my house, and those look/sound delicious. If I could pick a second, the orange chard!
As far as seed collection, I’d want to get my hands on the Container Garden seed collection.
I would like a Kid’s garden collection. We started one last year with some perennial fruits, a gourd trellis and a pole bean teepee, and haven’t yet bought seeds for this year :)
Oops. Missed the first part :) I’d love to try the Winter Luxury Pumpkin. I LOVE pie pumpkins and that one’s pretty, too!
In the middle of winter I’m always craving fresh greens! We live in Vermont, so even with our cold frames, we don’t get much out of our garden until March or April. Soo…. I’m looking at that beautiful head of Australe lettuce and thinking of what a beautiful salad it would make.
Thanks!!
German Butterball Potato, Cocozelle Zucchini, Prinz Celeriac, and for my ‘winter indoor garden’, Crunchy Bean Sprout Mix
If I won, I’d love to have the Heirloom Collection!
FREE seeds!?! Last year was my first gardening year using High Mowing Organic seeds and I can tell you I reaped everything I sowed and it was all splendidly delicious! Their Lemon Cukes were a massive hit all over my community so if you haven’t already you HAVE to try them!
I would love to try out their Hybrid Rhonda Beet and Prinz Celeriac because of their versatility, juice, soup, salad oh my! If I won I would certainly choose the container garden package with all those lovely goodies! Second choice would be the kids garden as we were also in love with the Purple Cosmo Carrots from last season and couldn’t get enough!
I ONLY use High Mowing. The corn last year tasted like watermelon, it was so sweet and juicy. My tomatoes were outstanding in flavor and texture. I wouldn’t mind trying my hand at the Red Cipollini onion, or the German Butterball potatoes.
We would love to try the Integro Hybrid Cabbage and the Iko Iko Peppers look yummy too. It’s hard to decide, really. We would love to get ahold of the German butterball potatoes as well. It is tough to choose. The Container Garden Mix looks fantastic too.
I would love to try the Rhazes Lettuce. What a fantastic color, would look great with my plain old greens. The seed collection, I ‘d choose the Starter garden. I didn’t save as many seeds this past year.
I’d go for the cylindra beet, the pirat lettuce and the black seeded Simpson lettuce.
From the collection I’d like the Garden Starter.
Makes me long for Spring already!
If I had to only pick a few I would try Black Trifele Tomato and the Orange Chard. Looks like an amazing salad waiting to happen!
If I won I would probably select the Heirloom Kit.
In love with the Giant Coral Zinnias and the Winter Luxury pumpkins. As far as collections go I can’t decide whether I would pick the Garden Starter (all around good collection), The Three Sisters (because I was planning on doing that next summer anyway), or the Kid’s Garden (because I am a kid at heart!).
Fiero radicchio for me…
i’d like to try some of the new lettuces like Australe Lettuce, and the Des Vertus MarTeau Salad Turnip! greeat giveaway!!!
I’m excited to try out the Iko Iko peppers and the Klondike Blue Ribbon Watermelon! My entire 2012 garden was made up of High Mowing Organic varieties, and I was extremely happy with the results. I also found High Mowing’s YouTube channel to be really helpful in honing my skils this year. Can’t wait for 2013!
Wow the choices! I don’t know if I can pick just one of the new varieties. I like Iko Iko peppers, Black Trifele Tomatoes, German butterball Potatoes, Rhazes & Refugio Lettuce, Blue Coco Bean, and if I had room I would try the winter luxury pumpkin. I will have to go through my existing seeds to see what I can add this year. Of the collections, the Three Sisters appeals to me the most since all of the varieties would be new to my garden. The Heirloom Collection is a close second since I regularly plant several of those.
I would like the Heirloom Lover’s Organic Seed Collection. I like a lot of these sets.
From the requests for the hybrid rarities, it sounds like many of your readers have big gardens with lots of room for extras! I, on the other hand, am limited to containers so I’d love the “Container Mix”. What a great selection of seeds!
MOAR SEEDZ!
I want all of them, please, thank you… OK…I have to pick one?
OK… UM……Green Tiger Tomato
The Fiero F1 Hybrid Radicchio ! This looks like a “healthy” alternative for dip (replacement for potato chips.)
While they all look wonderful, I want the Rhazes lettuce. I love red lettuces, and if all goes well this winter my neighbor’s going to chop down some pesky trees that over-shade my garden, so I’ll get a decent crop!
I’d like to try the Sea Shells Mix Cosmos for the 2013 new varieties and the Garden Starter Organic seed collection. If you ever have a chance come to High Mowing Seeds Trail Gardens event and check out all that they are growing. We always learn so much. The tour of the company is also interesting.
TOMATOES!
We are in the process of starting our first garden ever. Being a military family we’ve moved on a yearly basis for the last 5 years and for the first time we’ll be in the same place for 3 years! I am beyond excited and can’t wait to literally put down roots. That being said the garden starter collections has really caught my eye, but the kids garden collection also sounds like an amazing activity for my 2 and 4 year old to participate in. Oh I can’t pick a favorite. I suppose if I won I would pick the garden starter collection and buy the kids garden collection so I could have the best of both worlds.
Id love to try their broccoli sprouts and Iko iko. Peppers.
I’m already a customer and fan, so you had me at FREE SEEDS. I want their cannelli beans and Heirloom package. I am starting to save my own seeds so I have a mix of heirlooms and disease resistant varieties. It’s all good!
I want those German Butter Potatoes! I can taste them. New, out of the ground.
I will most definitely be trying the Iko Iko Pepper and the Annelise tomato this coming season. High mowing is the only brand, other than Baker Creek, that I use. They’re so great! I would highly recommended them to everyone!
If I won I would either choose the Summer of Sunflowers collection or the A Bee’s Garden collection. I have yet to try their flower seeds, and bees and sunflowers are two of my favorite things in the world! (:
I found your blog when HW posted about this give away on their Facebook, and I’m absolutely in love. I will DEFINITELY be sticking around!
What of the new seeds would I like to try? All of them, they are so beautiful. But if I have to chose, it would be the Topepo Rosso Pepper, Stocky Red Rosso Pepper, and Winter Luxury Pumpkin. IF I win, I would choose the Heriloom Vegetable Lovers Collection.
My Fair Lady F1 Hybrid Sweet Corn is the one I would like to try and the collection I would chose would be “A Bee’s Garden” as I am setting up two hives this spring.
I would love to try to grow the austral lettuce. I have bought it at my local farmers market and it is theist delicious, tender and beautiful baby head lettuce I have ever had. I would also like to support the breeding an development of baby head lettuce varieties which are adapted to California’s central coast climate. These varieties are hard to find even though there is a huge market for them!!! Thanks!
I’m a sucker for “pretty” vegetables, so I’d like to try the Red Swan beans, but the the Australe and Rhazes lettuces and the Iko Iko peppers are also tempting. I love getting my seeds from New England-based companies on the theory they’ll adapt better to my local conditions.
owl’s eye pumpkin! So pretty, and such a cool name. They all look pretty cool though. All the collections look great, especially the bee’s garden and the kids garden.
Container mix sounds just right!
Nothing’s better than free seeds for the garden! I’d love to try Iko Iko Pepper. The different colors are beautiful and I’m sure are tasty too.
I’m glad you ran this one, I hadn’t heard of High Mowing and they sound like a great outfit. I’d go for the beginner’s collection. Thanks.
I would love to try the German Butterball potatoes and the Winter Garden seed collection. Yay for growing your own food!
KK
Heirloom Vegetable Lovers please!
My goodness, the description for the Organic Black Trifele tomatoes is mouth-watering. Looking forward to spring so I can get to work in my garden… maybe I’ll even graduate out or containers and into a real garden bed!
Tossup! Blue coco beans or those gorgeous black trifele tomatoes. Both beautiful.
Next year will be my first year gardening. We spent this year prepping the soil. We hope to plant things that can be used for “sauce”… marinara to be exact. So I would like to plant tomatoes, peppers, onions, chives, and garlic. I would try anything!
the tiger tomato (green and red), the iko iko pepper, and the orange chard look good. if i had to pick only 1 collection i would pick garden starter , but the container collection is probably more for me since i have containers at this time
For the collection, I’d be torn between the kitchen herbs and the winter garden. Probably the winter garden– I’ve never been great with late/early (I blame Maine….)
Oh man, so many things look good! I’d have to go for the Iron Lady tomato (I want a whole garden JUST for tomatoes!) or Klondike Blue Ribbon watermelon (hope springs eternal–we ALMOST got watermelons last year).
The Organic Integro F1 Hybrid Cabbage looks very fun and tasty. Perfect for some bright colored kimchi! (http://www.highmowingseeds.com/Organic-Integro-F1-Hybrid-Cabbage-Seeds.html)
For a collection I would go with the Organic Container Garden Organic Seed Collection because all my beds are planned out, but i do have some containers around still!
How to chose???? Never tried to grow my own potatoes before. This next year may be a first… Those German Butterball’s are calling my name!
I would like to try the Megaton F1 Hybrid Leek. I love potato and leek soup and love trying new variety.
Thanks for explaining why organic seeds are better…the selection over generations makes total sense. The winter luxury pumpkin looks yummy–my son loves growing pumpkins and cooking with them. Again with the end goal in mind, the heirloom vegetable lovers would be such fun!
I would love the Container Gardening collection. I finally decided to leave the yard to the deer and moved all my edibles to my deck last year. It worked great and I can’t wait to do it again next year with more and different plants!
The Vivid Choi looks great, and I’m sure my mother would love either the Container Garden mix or the Winter Garden mix (I’m helping her put in raised beds this year).
What farmer could pick just one? or just 20? I’m interested in trying out mache for the first time, so I may order one (or both) of their new varieties. The heirloom collection would probably be my pick, but I’m also getting bee hives in the near future and they’d probably love some extra flowers from the bee garden collection!
I’ve been hearing great things about Baron Mache, but we’ve never tried it. Always trying to experiment with veggies we can eat raw since I learned my husband vastly them that way to cooked. I’d love to try the Kid’s Garden collection. We get a lot of help in the garden from the little ones, and they absolutely adored the sunflowers they grew this year.
I like the look of the black trifele tomato… with an 80 day maturity, do you think it’d grow here in the PNW? My favorite collections include the Garden Starter, Container Gardening, and the Winter Garden. I’d probably go with that last one – that’s the area I need the most work/encouragement!
Love the Blue Coco Bean.
I would love to try the Cha-Ching F1 Hybrid Zucchini & Pink Tiger Tomato! I am newly Paleo/Primal and want a bigger, better garden next year. In the mean time, I have several heirloom and small organic varieties of tomatoes growing indoors from the summer. :) Brought them in about a month ago, and they all have new blooms!
P.S. I really want the Heirloom Vegetable Lovers collection ;)
Wow, so many beautiful choices but I love the fenugreek sprouts for sure!
I love chocolate and blue, so while the blue coco bean may have nothing to do with the later, That’s what I want from the 2013 collection. The heirloom collection looks the best to me.
I would love the Organic Heirloom Vegetable Lovers Seed Collection! Free seeds!!! Who can resist?
I really want the container garden mixes because that is what I will be stuck with!
I’m about to move from Vancouver Island to North Carolina, so I would want something that grows there… Orange Chard? I’ll have a clean slate for a back yard that I will be building a permaculture garden from scratch with. I can’t wait!
I have always thought that organic seeds would be best. Now I have good solid reasoning behind why I thought that way. The Heirloom Collection sounds fascinating to me. May have to get that one way or another.
Id love to try the Blu Coco bean! And If I won, I’d choose the heirloom veggie collection.
I have to choose?? Come on! I think the Topepo Rosso Pepper look fun and also the Winter Luxury Pumpkin. Honestly, any of them would be amazing! I took two years off and I am itching for spring already to get back out there and get my “therapy” back. Because I tend to get a little overzealous when it comes to planning my garden adventures, the starter collection is probably the wisest choice for me to make! And even if I don’t win, I’m so bookmarking their website for the spring :)
i’m a sucker for peppers, even though I currently live in Seattle where growing peppers is a…challenge. I’d love to try out the iko iko peppers or the shishito peppers. the blue coco beans look gorgeous too!
if i won, i’d choose the container garden mix!
Is one of everything too much?? I do love the container gardening seed pack as it has everything that I love and I just got some repurposed containers in the late fall and now I am dreaming of all the ways that I will make them useful in the next year. Also the black and cannellini beans, as I want to try to grow my own and de-BPA my life through less use of store bought canned items. I’m hoping that over the course of the next couple of years to become much more self sufficient and healthy in what we eat by growing our own, even moreso than we do now. Starting today!!
Ooo Ooo Ooo! The Garden Starter Collection would really kickstart my new garden! I am looking at the Cannellini Beans, the Klondike Blue Ribbon Watermelons, and the Cippolini Onions for possible first-year candidates, as I daydream my new garden. What a great give-away! Many mahalos to High Mowing Organic Seeds!
Black Trifele tomato and Blue Coco bean for me!
I’m dating myself, but when I was younger, my best friend and I use to sit and page through the Sears and JC Penney catalog, taking turns choosing something from each page. I feel the same excitement when the seed catalogs start arriving. Like most gardeners, I have plenty of seeds, but I can’t help but order every year and try something new. I tell myself, if these times are as uncertain as I keep reading, then it’s a worthy investment. If I read through the comments, I’m sure I will have to add to my list, but for now, I have Belle Isle cress and Purple Orach circled in my catalog. Thanks for the insight on hybrids. I have always ordered heirloom or OP seeds and have not had much luck with sweet peppers or Brussels sprouts here in MA. I think it’s time to try a hybrid.
The Black Trifele Tomatoes look gorgeous! I wonder how they’d be in a sauce with a Harissa paste? And the Orange Chard is just plain pretty and I love chard. Yum. I would love to win the Heirloom Vegetable Lovers packet. ps just discovered your blog and I’m now obsessed! So glad you’re out there!
The Pink Tiger Tomatoes are calling my name!
Wow, tough call, as so many people are expressing here! I’d say what I’d like to try from their 2013 line up is the Winter Luxury Pumpkin and Black Trifele Tomato. As far as the seed collections go, if I won, I’d like to have either the Bee’s Garden or the Winter Garden kits. The former simply to help the bees and our gardens, and the latter because I always feel like the late season is a missed opportunity here, but never really know what to grow.
Shishito Peppers…..I can peppers every year and give them as gifts
Looking forward to planting more greens. Overwintering spinach kale carrots for early spring harvest in the hoop houses, while picking daily spinach and kale. Looking at the been sprout mix n hot peppers for summer growing. Tasty goodness
Ooooh the orange chard looks amazing!! Big fan of chard here :)
I’d try the Blue Coco Bean or the Topepo Rosso Pepper. And I think I would have to narrow it down to the Container Garden or Heirloom Vegetable Garden Seed Collections as my choice if I won this give-away!
Boothby Blond Cucumbers look interesting to me. thanks for the chance to win.
FREE SEEDS?!?!? Ok, I’m in.
Of the collections offered, I’d be interested in trying the Container Gardening Selection – as a fellow PNWite, I’d be curious to see how they do against some of the heirlooms we use here. But we’re hoping to add a lot more containers to the property this year to maximize the space. I really like the IKO IKO peppers though too. We do a lot of Mexican dishes, and can’t beet a delicious colorful pepper.
Thanks for passing on the offer.
Cheers,
Ben
Would LOVE to try the new Australe Lettuce or the Iko Iko Pepper! Amazing catalogue….already a long wish list and am only on page 6! Would choose the Heirloom vegetable lover’s Collection if I had my druthers!
Great giveaway, thanks to you and High Mowing…
The Container veggie collection looks awesome!! I’d probably plant it in our raised beds, not in containers though :)
I’m excited about the Pink Tiger Tomatoes–pink is my favorite color! I’d also love to try the Siberian Kale. Haven’t seen that one before.
Cold Michigan weather has me drooling over the idea of seed planting! I’d enjoy the Container Garden Collection because every variety is something I’d love to eat and grow. The Black Trifele Tomato looks interesting and would make beautiful salads. I love Mache and the bigger leaf of Baron Mache is one I’d like to try.
I would love to try the Fiero radicchio and the Heirloom Vegetable lovers collection.
I would love to try the Blue Coco Beans and the Rhazes Lettuce, they both look beautiful! I love purple vegetables. The Heirloom Vegetable Packet also has some excellent selections that I would love to try.
I love your seeds-the best product and most reliable! I love the varieties, I am looking at the Spanish Roja Garlic, Prinz Celeriac (my favorite!!!) and Cocozelle zukes! Last year the High Mowing zucchini across the board were the favorite of customers and family alike. I love visiting on tour days, it’s fabulous. I am glad to support it.
Ooo any and all. Right off, the Blue Coco beans are enticing, and the sweet peas. I’m a sucker for sweet peas!
Winter garden organic seed collection!
I’ve been following your site for months now and have yet to leave a comment. In other words, I’ve been stalking you and thoroughly enjoying your posts :) I’ve even passed on your blog to numerous friends and I’ve convinced my husband to read a post here and there (he is totally jealous of your pantry). Now here I am, leaving a comment when free seeds are involved. Even if I don’t win you’ll know you have another reader on your side.
The Mirlo Lettuce seeds sound wonderful. I love butter lettuce but I’ve never grown it. This was my first year gardening so I have a lot to learn. The Black Trifele Tomato also sounds incredible – a tomato that resembles the taste of chocolate?! I love both foods and I can’t imagine them together but I’d love to try. I also have to include my interest in the German Butterball Potato. My husband loves potatoes and since marrying him I’ve eaten more potatoes (and bread) than I have in years.
As for which Seed Collection we’d be most interested in, I’d have to say the Garden Starter or Three Sisters collections. The starter would be great as we’re still beginners and trying new things and the Three Sisters would result in some squash to last us in to winter, beans to can and corn to enjoy fresh out of the garden.
Believe it or not, that’s the brief version of all my thoughts. Thanks for writing (and reading comments). Happy growing!
Thanks for de-lurking, and for reading! No one can resist free seeds… :)
I do my gardening in EarthBoxes, so the container gardening collection would be awesome! This coming year, I want to try putting the containers on raised platforms, so I can still garden, even with health problems.
The starter organic seed collection looks awesome – direct sowing, easy to grow . . . sounds like I could pull it off!!
Oooooh, I’d want to try the Vivid Choi and the Garden Starter Seed Collection would be perfect for me since I’m just starting to take my garden seriously. Thanks for a great blog and a great giveaway!!
Dario F1 Hybrid Cocozelle Zucchini and the Winter Garden Organic Seed Collection (trying to be better about growing food all year long…)
I think I would like to try the container garden seed collection . but all sound really good . Living in a short growing season climate, containers work the best here .
I’m new to your blog but I’m really loving it. I had never heard of this company but it looks cool. It was hard to choose but I think because I have a (fairly) black thumb, I would try the kitchen herbs. Herbs are baby steps right?
I’d like to try the German butterball potatoes and the painted lady sweet peas. Need more flowers in the yard….
As for collections, the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s Seed Collection looks like an interesting one to try; I keep seeing multicolored carrot a my local food coop and haven’t been wild and crazy enough to buy some.
The Klondike Watermelons looks delicious and the Kitchen Herbs set is right up my alley. I love using fresh herbs to cook! Best of luck to all the entrants… May the luckiest person win!
hmm, those Silver Cloud cannellini beans look delightful! I had great success with High Mowing’s other dry beans this past growing season.
Yay! Free seeds!
2013 new seeds- the Spanish roja garlic looks mighty tasty
seed collections-I’ll have to go with the heirloom veggie lover set, though…so many good ones to choose from!!
I would like the Heirloom Lover’s Organic Seed Collection.
I think I’d have to go with the Organic German Butterball potato as the one I’d try. I just added more garden space that will be ready for planting in the spring and I thought I’d give potatoes a try for the first time. That potato variety looks like a good place to start. As for the the collections, I’d have to go with the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s collection because that’s exactly what I am. My heirloom tomatoes have been doing so well that I’d never dream of trying something else. Plus heirlooms are more fun to look at.
Thank you for the opportunity to receive something for free!! I am learning to grow veges at a late age; however, since my knowledge is improving with organic living, I would be excited to receive the Container Garden collection. Nice to know that I can trust the seed source:)
I want to try any of the pea collection. I’m new at this, but for the first 2 years I only got a handful of peas. I’d love to win the Heirloom Vegetable Lovers Collection. I think everyone should have seeds (just in case….).
Love the High Mowing people. Met a few of them a few years ago at an organic farming conference, and saw them again last week at the Acres USA conference. One of the best out there, with a great story to tell.
I think I will have to choose the Heirloom Vegetable collection for the contest. Those look like some great varieties to grow. Thanks much for the opportunity!
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I LOVE High Mowing Seeds! I just got their seed catalog in the mail and have been so enjoying leafing thru it, fantasizing about when the soil will be warm here in VT.
I’d like to try the VT cranberry bean to dry and use throughout next winter in soups, casseroles etc. I’ve never grown beans to dry before and would like to give it a try!
The new cabbages look great, but that Red Cipollini Onion has amazing color. As for seed collections, definitely the Kitchen Herbs Organic Seed Collection.
Wow, they all look so good! I would really like the winter garden collection, I wish I had all those yummy things growing in my garden right now!
This is the best giveaway EVER!!!!!
I would love to try soooooo many, but just picking one, I would go with Shishito Peppers and the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s mix.
Dying to try those Iko Iko peppers!
The trifoli tomatoes look lovely. Nice and meaty for cooking or fresh eating.
Which new seeds would I like to try?! *Silver Cloud Cannellini Bean: we love growing dry beans, but we haven’t grown cannellini, but we use them.
I would probably go with the Kitchen Herbs collection :)
The Summer of Sunflowers collections sounds awesome. We live on a hillside and each summer plant the sunflowers along the fence of the garden and we can view them from the house. It appears the sunflowers are smiling at us each morning. Later in the summer the chickens are smiling because they get the sunflower seed treat.
Oh dear, I already have a seed buying problem. I really shouldn’t even click over and look, but….
I would love to try the Prinz celeriac or the Garnet Giant Mustard. Celeriac and mustard greens are two veggies we never had eaten before subscribing to a CSA and are now two of our favorites!
I think I would choose the winter garden set. I’d like to try to extend my growing season this year.
The collections look wonderful. My first pick would be the Starter Garden Collection. The individual seed that catches my eye would be the Topepo Rosso Pepper. We have learned that we love fresh peppers!, Now I feel the need to read “Animal Vegetable Miracle” and plan my spring garden
Oooooo…. I would love to try the Black Trifele tomatoes, and the Maayan Dark Orange calendula. For a collection, I’d pick the Container Garden Collection – which I’m psyched they have now, since I was wishing for one last year. Thanks for holding this giveaway!
I’m most curious about Des Vertus MarTeau Salad Turnip. I love eating turnips in my salads!
But the Blue Coco beans, and Iko Iko peppers are also intriguing.
And the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s Seed Collection and Winter Garden Organic Seed Collection both sound fabulous to me. I need to plant more of a winter garden next year.
Choose 1?!? But I would have to go with Magnifienza melon and Winter luxury pumpkin. No, wait, the salad turnip. NO, no, the corn…Put me out of my misery, please!!!
Thanks for the give away!
Oh and I’d try the Heirloom Lovers packet.
This is the seed hoarder (but they keep forever if properly stored, right? and I DO share with friends!) who also commented on your last post. OF COURSE I’d love more seeds. The Black Trifele Tomato looks intriguing, and if I won I would choose the Organic Heirloom Vegetable Lovers Seed Collection. Fingers crossed.
Organic Heirloom Vegetable Lovers Seed Collection?!?!?! OMG, they know just how to stoke a girl’s gardening passion. I moved to southern Oregon a couple of years ago from Alaska and my gardening addiction has increased exponentially with the warmer temps. Year round gardening is SO Awesome! I am swooning at the thought of winning and thank you very much for this awesome giveaway. xoxoxo
I’d love to try the Mirlo Lettuce, it looks so cute and compact, or the Owl’s Eye F1 Pumpkin. The pale yellow pumkins look super cute!!
The Summer of Sunflowers Seed Collection looks so pretty. I just got married this fall and sunflowers were our main flower in our arrangements. It would be so nice to grow some at home this year.
thanks for the contest and the info on this organic seed company!
Very nice giveaway… do want!
High Mowing seed variety I’d most like to try out: Pink Tiger Tomato looks fun :)
As for the Seed Collections, I like the Heirloom Vegetable Lovers the most, although the Garden Starter also looks great to me.
Love all the melons, but I think the mache is super cool!
The minute I saw sprouting broccoli, I stopped there. Definitely some of the handiest seed to have around in my estimation. I checked out the other new offerings and will be purchasing some locally (I’m in Vermont).
For the Seed Collection, I’d definitely pick the Heirloom Seed Collection. I would really like to try to save seed this year. Thanks for the contest!
Cheers! I would love to try the Detroit Dark Red Beet – roots are one of the precious few vegetables we midwesterners are really able to master :)
Really I wouldn’t say no to any of these! I especially love the Iko Iko Pepper (love the variety and colour changes). I also love the Black Trifele Tomato or the Red Swan Bean, which are gorgeous. I ordered High Mowing’s catalogue so even if I don’t win, I’ll still be able to get my hands on some of these in time for next year’s growing season! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity… nice that it is also open to us Canadian readers :)
Hard to pick, but probably the Iko Iko pepper seeds, then the new Orange Calendula. I would pick the garden start collection.
I would love to try my hand at growing the Heirloom Vegetable Lovers Seed Collection. Ever the romantic I would love to share the experience of growing a small garden with my 90 year old father adjacent to his signature fig tree. He has planted a fig tree and garden at every home he has had.
If the quantities of seed permit, I think it would be fun to share the wealth and inspire a little healthy competition between the neighbor’s as well. last year we had some fun seeing who could grow the biggest tomato, onion etc.. We had alot of fun tricking a neighbor into thinking that the giant organic red onion we gave him was grown in our own yard.
You’re gonna make me choose? Alrighty then, I guess I’d love to try the fenugreek. Can I even grow that here? Sounds exciting anyway!
loving the tiger peppers and spanish roja garlic! I would choose the heirloom vegetable lover’s seed collection. Can I pick two? Because I know my almost 3-year old would love the kid’s organic seed collection too :)
i would love to the tomatoes. they all sound great though
Oh. My. Goodness! I have my “Cart” already filled on that website just waiting for payday (which happens to be the 21st!) and I’ve gotta say If I had to pick out a seed collection it would be the heirloom lovers. I think I already have a few in my cart :) As for my favorite new seeds, I’ve already jumped on the Iko Iko Pepper bandwagon but think the new German Butterball Potato sounds divine! Spans all ways to prepare potatoes – YES. PLEASE.
Btw, found your site through pinterest for another article and now I’m hooked. Love it!
The silverwhale spinach looks interesting!
Megaton F1 Hybrid Leek and Orange Chard! I fell in love with chard this summer at the farmer’s market and now I want it in my own garden! We’ve had success with leeks in the past and I really missed them this year. These look nice and hearty! Yum!!!
Oh! And the heirloom veggie collection or winter garden make my mouth water!
The black trifele tomatoes look awesome! I would probably choose the container or heirloom seed collections.
How could I resist a pepper named Iko Iko?! That’s going on my to-buy list. And the Heirloom Vegetable collection looks awesome to me.
What a wonderful web site!
New for 2013, the Rhonda F1 Hybrid Beet.
For the Seed Collections, the Organic Garden Starter Collection is just sublime!
I would try the Iron Lady tomatoes. As for the seed collections, I’m torn between A Bee’s Garden and Container Garden, but I think I would choose Container Garden for its edibility.
How can I choose just one variety? I want to try them all! but sadly with our cold, wet Pacific Northwest climate and my limited garden space, I need the most bang for my buck. I cant go wrong with the “oh so lovely ” hybrid cocozelle zucchini. They are small enough to ripen quickly, even if our summer starts late and ends early, and zucchini are famously prolific producers. Plus, the lovely stripes makes them aesthetically appealing, even to the pickiest of my kids. I can also sneak zucchini into so many things disguised as non vegetables (breads, muffins, Quiche). Please, please send me a free packet :). Oh, and I would definitely want the Garden starter collection if I could choose, I love experimenting with new varieties every year.
It’s fun just to look at all the seeds and collections. I wish I could start planting now! I’m really drawn to the Topepo Rosso peppers and the heirloom collection. The container collection was my first thought, but the heirloom has more plants that are new to me. My Matt’s Wild Cherry tomato from 2011 self-seeded this year (VA/7A).
Those Stocky Red Roasters look good to me! Could be just because it’s been raining and cold here all week. I want summer back! Giant Coral Zinnia looks beautiful too. It’s a toss up between the kids garden collection and the winter garden one. Looks like a nice company and a good website too. Thanks!
Seeds! I think any of these would be great. I like the Organic Vegetable lovers. Of course my outdoor bird friends would like the Sunflower Seed collection. They all sound wonderful.
The short-season dry bean obsession continues, so I’d go for the improved cannelini first. I’ve heard good things about Black Trifele tomato and Winter Luxury pie squash as well.
For seed collections, the container one looks the best at the moment. Which is a bit weird since I don’t do a lot of container gardening (more watering needed … laziness strikes again) but there’s a few on there I’ve been meaning to try, like Matt’s Wild Cherry and Lacinato kale. And really, who couldn’t use more herbs and nasturtiums? Always sprinkling those about in random open spots and then running out.
I would like to try the organic blue coco bean. Looks like fun to me!
Oh, wow, to choose from all those wonderful organic seeds? Impossible! I am limited on space, though, which helps me choose the container variety for sure. There are so many beautiful plants shown there, the tomatos, lettuce, and my mouth is already watering, and I’m feeling the warm soil on my fingers now. I began my love of plants at an early age, growing up with family in the flower business with greenhouses growing the fabulous flowers and house plants. Then, in high school in the late 70′s, I worked in greenhouses set up for hydroponics, which was a new concept and we grew vegetables and flowers in the 67 greenhouses. So fun and so much to learn with new ways to grow great beauty and appetizing food every year, while we cherish the heirloom varieties of our ancestors also. Thanks for this offer!
I would love to try the orange chard and the Rhazes lettuce – they would both look fantastic in my edible front yard landscape! I would try just about any of the collections. We’re always looking to try new and interesting things at our community garden, or find avenues for quality seeds to donate to community members who don’t have access to them. The container garden, garden starter, or kid’s garden collections would probably be most ideal. What fun!
Free seeds sounds fantastic! I wish I could grow melons in the PacNW but even the shortest season melons just don’t ripen fast enough in my yard. So to be most practical the Baron Mache sounds easy & fruitful, Garnet Mustard looks beautiful, and Topepo Rosso peppers sounds wonderful. I would choose, if I could only choose one, the Heirloom Vegetable lovers beacuse it has one of everything.
Dear Erica, of course you have so many entries, that I won’t win, but I would order the Cover crop mix: “Organic Field Peas/Oats Vetch Mix” and hope that the chickens wouldn’t eat it before it got established. As for the collection, I would order the container garden, not because I don’t have a plot, but because my kids had a fabulous farmers’ market last summer and I would like them to be successful with their very own seeds.
Dear Erica,
You have an amazing blog! I had visited in the past and landed here today again and this time my friend you are bookmarked for GOOD! :)
I started gardening about two years ago, when I was able to use my Community garden space. It has been hard but I have learned along the way and I love it! There is nothing more rewarding than giving my lovely toddler fresh peas, berries, and salads that I know I grew and have no pesticides. It is very hard to get heirloom organic seeds, and understandably enough they are pricey. I have purchased OS from the local stores, but it makes me wonder if they truly are Heirloom and organic.
Where to start with the Organic Seeds? I love to grow purple vegetables and well.. all vegetables. Here are some that caught my eye: Blue Coco Bean, Purple cabbage, Red Cipollini Onion, Vivid Choi, Black Trifelle tomato, Silverwhale F1 Hybrid Spinach, peppers, whatever you wish to send :)
One thing though; my space and seasons are limited as I am part of a Community Garden and have about two beds space and live in the Northeast. High mowing farms can send me whatever they think will grow great here in the NE. I would love love to win this package as my journey into gardening just so I can show my son the art of gardening for life. Thanks :)
ooooh, these look fantastic! I would go for the container garden or the Kids garden. I like the cosmic purple carrot :)
not sure if I put the right answer or not, but here’s hoping!
Garnet Giant Mustard, Vivid Choy, Megaton Leek, Topepo Peppers are on my list! The Black Trifeles I have grown here and they are beautiful tasting. Blue Coco Beans are a standard in my garden now. The taste is outstanding, the beans are tender even when large and I always get a prodigious number of them.
My goal this year is to grow my own dry beans, so the Organic Silver Cloud Cannellini Bean look like a good one to try. Then it would be a toss up between the sunflower seed collection and the winter garden.
I want to try the Baron Mache – I love how mache extends the season for fresh local greens so much.
I’d choose the Heirloom Vegetable Lovers Seed Collection – it looks like a great selection of favourites and varieties I’ve never tried.
I’m thrilled that this is open to Canadians!
Ooh, orange chard!
I’m all about destroying the ” we can’t grow corn west of the cascades”curse this year. I have been collecting large livestock waterer’s this last summer ( the joy’s of living in the country and barn sales ) and will be trying like hell to prove everyone wrong! So If I win I would pick the three sisters mix. After all, if i fail to produce edible corn, it sure will look cool hanging out and over a big black tub!
The orange chard looks interesting, and I have had a hard time with radiccio lately, so I would beinterested in trying that to see if I have more luck.
I’d probably pick the Container Garden Collection, since I’m moving to a house with a slightly small garden space! And I definitely have an interest in the Vivid Choi for the new 2013 varieties!
It’s difficult to choose! I’m such a seed addict. I’ll go with the Stocky Red Roaster, though. Coming in a close second are all of those yummy loose leaf lettuces.
Oh, and the Heirloom Gardeners would be my collection of choice.
Garden Starter Collection
I would love to try the garden starter collection and I am going to get the wheat grass for sure!!
I’d love to try out the Australe Lettuce, I love different lettuces in my salads and butterhead and romain are some of my favorites and this one combines qualities of both…
I would absolutly love to try the Cocozelle Zucchini. I love putting zucchini in fresh summer salads and mixing it up with the Cocezelle sounds wonderful! Which brings me to the Easy Salad Greens Organic Seed Collection. What an amazing mix! Sounds like all my favorite things packed in one packet!
Of the new seed varieties I’d really like to try the Maayan Calendula. This year I’ve really gotten into making herbal medicines and calendula is one of my favorite herbs, but it is so expensive! I’m seeing great swaths of calendula in my 2013 garden. As for the seed collections, I would go with the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s Collection because I’m, well, an heirloom vegetable lover. Thanks for bringing this seed company to my attention, Erica!
Orange Chard for me please. Yummy!
I think the one I’d enjoy trying the most is the Winter Luxury Pumpkin; it looks like a fun thing to grow and a tasty thing to eat.
As for the seed collections….the one that interests me the most would be the Container Garden Organic Seed Collection….I don’t do much with containers and I’ve been wanting to!
Thanks for the opportunity to win seeds. I love all the great photos on the High Mowing website, which is inspiring the spring garden! If I had to pick just one seed packet it would be the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s Seed Collection. And the Magnifienza F1 Hybrid Melon from the 2013 collection is calling my name. I love a great melon!
blue coco bean…. prinz celeriac… ALL the potatoes/onions/garlic… eeeeekkkkk
hello.. I am a seed addict (so thought I should branch out to tubers/bulbs!)
I’d love to try the Black Trifele Tomato!
Oh and if I won, I would try the Heirloom Vegetable Lover’s collection
I grow heirlooms almost exclusively, and have ordered from High Mowing for two years — they are fabulous people who grow fabulous seeds. I would ask for the Bee Garden Collection, because I’d like to see more native pollinators around my farm… and I’d love to try the cocozelle zucchini in my garden, while growing the wheatgrass indoors for the early markets. Hope this sneaks in under the wire! It’s after 6 pm here, but I’m Atlantic Time, so I think I have a few more hours! Fun to read everyone’s comments, too…
Hello everyone!
I am new to all this and would love to start a garden for my family so we can all eat healthy and share with others… I am realy looking forward to gardening as though i live in florida and its going to be a new exsperince with growing in this climate and sand everywere.. wish me all the luck god bless
I’d have to go with the garden starter, the kitchen herbs, or the easy salad greens or maybe even the vegetable lovers kit!
Oh no! I hope that I am not too late to register for some “free seeds”. I would love to try some of the cherry tomatoes and perhaps the spinach varities. I love spinach.
Seeds!!! Anything!!!! Love plants, love gardening! I have limited space, though, so I would love the “Container Gardening” packet.
I’m interested in receiving free seeds…