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At Renee's
Garden, we offer varieties grown by seed producers both large and small from all
over the world and make our selections only after careful evaluation in our own
trial gardens. We do not carry treated seeds nor will we ever handle genetically
engineered varieties.
First and foremost, we work hard to find good, sustainable and organic growers
with the skill and expertise to produce the high-quality, high germinating seeds we
know we can count on and our customers will be successful with. We have close
relationships with our growers, and many have become trusted friends. Many
Renee's Garden varieties are listed as our "Exclusive," which means they are
varieties produced only for our company and not available in other seed packet
lines.
Every year in early spring, I
set about finding new varieties and contracting with growers to grow new seed
crops for varieties we currently offer. I meet with our seed
suppliers at least annually. While I do frequently travel to visit domestic
suppliers and some of them also make the trip to visit our Northern California
trial garden each season, I can sit down with many of our Asian and European
suppliers at seed conferences. There's nothing like speaking face-to-face with
folks you otherwise work with at a long distance most of the year.
I look
forward to seeing our favorite growers from countries as diverse as France,
Italy, Great Britain, Germany, the US, Japan, Thailand, Mexico and the
Netherlands because I've known many of them for years. They know the kinds of
vegetables, herbs and flowers we want to offer at Renee's Garden, so I can count
on their recommendations. I've also been cultivating new relationships with good
growers in Eastern European countries like the Czech Republic and Romania
because of their large repository of heirloom varieties.
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 I use these
meetings first to review our trial garden results, because most of our suppliers
really appreciate the feedback on how their varieties do in our trial gardens in
different parts of the US (Seattle, northern California, Florida, Vermont). The
main part of each meeting is then devoted to hearing about, seeing videos of and
discussing their new introductions and individual variety suggestions for
evaluation at Renee's Garden.
While I
always look for unique selections, my major criteria are still excellence in
flavor, color and ease of growing and garden performance for home gardeners. I
seek out different colored varieties of the same vegetable that we can combine
in one packet for our special and economical "Rainbow 3 in 1" veggie packets.
For our cut flower blends, I seek out shades that go beautifully together to cut
for natural bouquets. I have to keep my unbounded enthusiasm under control,
because I really love to talk about seeds and want to make the most of each
visit without wearing out my welcome!
We also contract to buy seeds regularly from small local organic farmers who
have the expertise to grow high quality seeds for us. I contact them
individually to see which crops they have room for and make formal agreements
for growing our seed for the next season. All our heirloom tomato varieties, for
instance, are grown by these knowledgeable small seed producers in their family
farms, most located in the agricultural valleys of northern and central
California, Washington and Oregon. Generally we supply the basic "stock seed" of
the variety to be grown, and they multiply these seeds for us, growing the
amount we need, according to agreed upon seed quality standards and subject to
independent seed lab tests for germination and purity.
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