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A longstanding goal of ours has been to better serve mid-sized farms and growers - or just anyone who just wants more seed than a packet size. We are now adding bulk seed sizes across a number of varieties across our seed catalog. Please check out our Bulk Sizes collection on our web site!

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Just a quick shoutout to the five new stores carry our seeds! Check out Good Buy Supply in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Wilson Nurseries in Frankfort, Kentucky; Sparrow Bloom Co in Lansing, Michigan; Little Flower Shop in San Anselmo, California, and lastly; Rainbow Bridge in Ojai. Check out our Store Directory for these and over 60 other locations that stock our seeds! Also, if you’ve got a brick and mortar location and are interested in carrying our seed, we have a retailers program; sign up at retail.plantgoodseed.com/

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It's still possible to pick up seeds for holiday gifts or get a head start on next year’s gardening seasons! Take 15% off any seed order from plantgoodseed.com when checking out with discount code HOLIDAYSEEDS! Note: the cutoff for USPS Priority Mail and UPS Ground is December 18th. We offer both these options for shipping for checkout and any order $100 or over ships by USPS Priority Mail for free!

Also, we have been diligently working on getting our new releases for 2024 in order and we will start rolling some of these out before the end of the year!

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Happy Holidays everyone! Thank you for supporting our seed company this year!  If you care to place a holiday order, you can take advantage of our biggest sale of the year. Through November 29th, take 20 percent off any order at plantgoodseed.com when checking out with discount code LATEFALLGARDEN.

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Find us at tomorrow's Ojai Farmers Market! Sunday, September 10th, 2023 from 9 am to 1 pm. This will be the last market of the fall. There's plenty of warm weather left to get your fall garden started and we've got the seeds you need. 300 East Matilija Street - hope to see you there!

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We are in the business of life! Our 2023 seed production in Ojai, California.

Spring never really got going here in Ojai, and as I write these words summer is nearly here. Between the heavier winter rains (this a 45 inch - and counting - rain year) and weeks of overcast days, moon cycles have been an afterthought.

The plants keep growing through the fog, rain, and cloudy weather. Kendall harvested our Fizz Kale plants two weeks ago, making this our first seed crop of the year. Fizz is a salad kale, with smooth, oak shaped emerald colored leaves and white veins. It was the very first lot of seed we logged for the company back in 2011, and was definitely in need of improvement. We focused on one thing: culling out early bolting plants, prolonging the usefulness and flavor of the leaves as they mature. (Given this kale is harvested young as a micro green, it’s unsurprising this might have been not a priority, as harvest would typically occur long before any chance of flowering occurs) 

Up next is our largest production of Cherry Glow Breadseed Poppy. We did smaller runs of these in 2017 (me) and 2022 (Richard Gambino/Topa Vista Farmstand). The last few of Richard’s packets are still available, along with a bulk size. 

(We also have a new variety we are adding: Flemish Peony Poppy. I first spotted this on Cacia Huff’s Feral Farm instagram feed, and she sent me some seed stock)

We planted 10 pounds of Chimyan Garlic last fall, and harvesting was completed earlier in the month. Hardnecks aren’t always suitable for Southern California climates, but these bulbs look promising, and a quality planting stock would allow us to make this available to our customers in 2024.

New crops of Double White Hollyhock and Krishna Holy Basil are currently in the ground. Krishna seems to be the most temperature sensitive of the holy basils I’ve ever worked with. It really didn’t like this cold, and needs a really long production window for harvest. When it gets established, it’s a sight to be soon. Rama Holy Basil seedlings are also ready to go in, Heavy Hitter Okra seedlings are at the nursery, and I think our first Ojai production of Zanadoo Corn is on the way as well. Another round of Hibiscus was necessary, as we are packing the last of our current seed supply today, and it will likely be gone before the summer is up.

New crops of Silk Mullein, Dense Flowered Mullein, Clary Sage, and Marshmallow are well on their way to producing. Stinging Nettle and Scarlet Bee Balm will likely just increase our planting stock and not be available for sale this year.

After adding Double Black Hollyhock and Madder to the catalog in this past year, and feeling a little inspired by the work of Ride and Dye Ojai, I’ve been wanting to further expand the availability of our dye plants: Japanese Indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) seemed like an easy place to start and is now in production. I also had two other proper Indigo species “True” Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria) - or Guatemalan Indigo (Indigofera suffruticosa) we sent to the nursery, but the germination was too scanty to move forward. Next year!

Steve put a lot of flowers in the ground in this past fall-winter so it’s possible that a lot more will be coming than planned, or just refreshing/replenishing existing stalks. I’m pretty happy to see a new crop of Gaillardia coming on. I’m spying some mixed yarrow and bachelor buttons and a lot of silvery rose strawflower.

I’m continuing to work with my Southern California natives / rugged perennial crops. I planted a lot more Western Vervain this year, and new crops of Black, Purple, and White Sages are nearly ready. I continue to have problems with harvesting quality Hummingbird Sage seed, but after taking a year to experiment with harvesting and timing methods, I’ll give it another go. This is the first year I’ve worked with Cleveland Sage, and it’s looking spectacular.

Elderberry and Matilija Poppy will likely be back in the catalog too. These are quite easy to propagate clonally (root divisions or just straight up branch plantings), but it seems people enjoy the challenge of starting things from seed.

Our network of producers has grown substantially over this past year, and we intend on highlighting their crop production for the company in another blog post later in the year!

-quin

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Do you sell Russian Dandelion seeds? Please give quantities and price. Thank you.

We don't carry these seeds, sorry!

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see you tomorrow! @ojaifarmersmarket. 9am-1pm, we will be there with over 80 varieties of seasonally appropriate seeds. spring is here, the sun is out, and it’s time to get planting! (at Ojai Certified Farmers Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOgpgRPJ70/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It's spring! This Sunday, March 19th we will be at the Ojai Farmers Market at 300 East Matilija Street in downtown Ojai. We are bringing over 80 seasonally appropriate seed varieties, including even more selections from our New and Returning for 2023 releases, as well as Seed Saving Comic books. 9 am - 1 pm – hope to see you there! (at Ojai Certified Farmers Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5vCKwP4ra/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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back at tomorrow’s @ojaifarmersmarket, 9 am-1pm in downtown Ojai. there will be dandelions. a fun fact is: our illustrator @goda72 also produced the dandelion seeds. #majordandelionproducer (at Ojai Certified Farmers Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpqP0Y3vE4t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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hey folks! it’s a rainy friday here, we’ve been packing lots of seeds, and have just dropped a substantial number of new and returning variety releases, with a huge focus on herbs and flowers (although a few veggies to boot)! elecampane, globe thistle, dyer’s madder, common mugwort, styrian hulless pumpkin, diamond eggplant, feverfew, aswad eggplant, double goldy teddy bear and soraya sunflower are now available on our web site. (there’s also a few more that didn’t fit in this slide carousel.) spring’s just around the corner and all of these are pretty good to go now. #plantgoodseed https://www.instagram.com/p/CpoPppmPOq3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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back at @ojaifarmersmarket! looks like we’ve got a lot of rain between now and then, but it’s presently looking clear (albeit cold) for this Sunday, February 26th from 9am-1pm. we will bring over 80 varieties of spring/summer reading seed selections and a couple of new surprises. hope to see you there! (at Ojai Certified Farmers Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBnFmHvsMA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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hey everyone! back yet again for another @ojaifarmersmarket! This Sunday, February 19th we will include more new stuff the 80+ seed selection, including our latest riverside onion seed crop - a third generation, certified organic selection produced right here in Ojai - as well as a few types of lavender. 9am-1pm, hope to see you there! (at Ojai Certified Farmers Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cox8ufovwSC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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who remembers fizz kale? we sure do. this was one of the first varieties we offered in the seed catalog and it’s been out of circulation for many years, and in need of improvement. this is a british variety primarily used as a baby green / micro green stir fry kale, and it has clearly been neglected on a plant breeding front. a great number of the plants are prone to early bolting/flowering, which kinda makes sense as it’s primarily harvested well before the leaves are large. @plantmarks and i spent some time at Rancho del Pueblo/Farmer and the Cook where we are producing this crop for seed for the first time in over 10 years! The primary goal of this seed production is culling out those early flowering plants so they don’t reproduce in the final genetic pool. We also did some mid season fertilization to facilitate the remaining crop having the best chance of going to seed. 🤞 this one will be back in the catalog come Fall/early Winter next year. #plantbreeding #openpollinated #kale #fizzkale https://www.instagram.com/p/CovhIjdvoUD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Find us this Sunday, February 12th from 9 am-1pm at the Ojai Farmers Market, 300 East Matilija Street in downtown Ojai. This is our first market of the season and we are bringing over 80 varieties of seeds, including locally produced varieties from our New and Returning for 2023 releases, as well as our Seed Saving Comic books. Hope to see you there! (at Ojai Certified Farmers Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoikC_lP-sg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=