There are too many good ones to mention, and the famous old-timers, like Burpee, Cook's Garden, Johnny's Selected Seeds and White Flower Farm, can fend for themselves.
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But to be sure, I took your question to Rob Johnston, the owner of Johnny's Selected Seeds in Albion, Me ., and a specialist in winter squash.
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Johnny's Selected Seeds, 1 Foss Hill Road, R . R . 1, Box 2580, Albion, Me . 04910-9731; ( 207 ) 437-4357; www . johnnyseeds . com.
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"I love my Johnny's Selected Seeds catalog, " she said, " but I want to be on their in-house list and not have my name shared in any way.
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Popcorn varieties are available from Johnny's Selected Seeds, Foss Hill Road, Albion, Me . 04910-9731, and from Stokes Seeds, Box 548, Buffalo 14240-0548 ( catalogues from both are free ).
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"A lot of people plant their vegetable gardens on Memorial Day and don't plant anything after that, " says Steve Bellavia, vegetables product manager for Johnny's Selected Seeds in Albion, Maine.
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The Johnny's Selected Seeds catalog from Albion, Maine, which added a large new medicinal herbs section this year, describes angelica thusly : " Tonic against infection, to improve energy, and to stimulate circulation.
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Sources for the seeds : Johnny's Selected Seeds, ( 207 ) 437-4301 or www . johnnyseeds . com; for plants, Nichols Garden Nursery, ( 866 ) 408-4851 or www . nicholsgardennursery . com.
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"You'll never catch me eating a yellow bean, " said Steve Bellavia, a bean enthusiast who gets to examine a lot of them as vegetable products manager at Johnny's Selected Seeds in Maine.
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Johnny's Selected Seeds, the Maine company from which I purchased the seeds, lists 60 days as the growing length of the toma verde variety and 70 for tiny toma de milpa, which grow wild in Mexican cornfields.