Sowing the seeds of next season

Published January 27, 2007 at midnight

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Can you believe it's time to start thinking about varieties, colors and tastes of what to plant this spring? Here's a list of dandy seed and plant companies you may not have heard of.

• Dixondale Farms, dixondalefarms.com, 1-877-367- 1015

These folks have been selling only onions since 1913. I've tried a few, including Red Torpedo, but this year they have a new 2007 Red Bull type that sounds like fun to grow and harvest.

• Totally Tomatoes, totallytomato.com, 1-800-345- 5977

Talk about a full range of tomatoes! You can go from the old standards to Green Grape or tiny Jelly Bean Yellow to superbig Early Goliath and Big Beef or Big Bite hybrids and everything in between. About 90 percent of this catalog is tomato seeds and plants.

• Indiana Berry and Plant Co., inberry.com, 1-812-683- 3055

This great nursery covers the field, from asparagus, rhubarb and horseradish to berries like strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry, grape and currant. Its catalog includes good advice on how to plant, care for and harvest the goodies.

• One Green World, onegreenworld.com, 1-877-353-4028

This outlet sports unique fruits, such as quince, bamboo types good in our growing zone and edible lilies, chestnuts, beautiful passion flowers (such as Maypop) and huckleberries. There are small Chinese date trees producing a fruit called jujube (I grow one of these). You can also find Cornelian cherries and Medlar apples.

Dale Langford is an area lawn and garden specialist.

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