Who owns territorial seeds

Seed count is different for each variety. NOTE: Some varieties list the seed count in the product descriptions if each variety within a category has a different count. Seed life is different for each species. Seed that has been coated with a clay-based material to form a larger, round shape which makes planting by hand or mechanical seeder easier and allows for more controlled sowing of small seeds such as carrots or lettuce. All of our pelleted seed have a National Organic Program approved coating.

For best results, store pelleted seed in an air-tight container and use within one season. Seed tapes are perfectly straight rows of precisely spaced crops. No more having to thin seedlings! This biodegradable tape will plant a row 5 meters 16 feet, 5 inches long. Simply lay it in a furrow and cover with a light layer of sifted compost or soil, water and wait. Save yourself a heap of planting time with these popular vegetable and herb staples.

Each 10 cm disk is sized just right to conveniently plant in a 4 inch pot. For windowsill, patio and even herb garden planting, lay the disk on the surface of the moistened planting medium and cover lightly. Water and watch your herbs grow. These disks are a great gift or a perfect child's gardening project. This word literally means virgin fruit. Parthenocarpic vegetable varieties have the ability to produce fruit without being pollinated.

These fruits will also be seedless. The most common fruiting vegetables for which parthenocarpic varieties can be found are cucumbers, tomatoes, summer squash, and eggplant. In the case of cucumbers, the fruit will be seedless if kept in isolation from other pollen-producing varieties. With other vegetables, parthenocarpy allows earlier fruit formation often in less-than-ideal conditions , but under normal circumstances will eventually produce seeded fruit due to normal pollination activity.

Heirloom is a descriptive term with no definitive definition. At Territorial Seed, we categorize a variety as an heirloom if it is from pre-World War II, open pollinated, and has a history of being preserved and passed down through the generations.

In other words, heirlooms are time-tested favorites. An open-pollinated variety will produce new plants that are "true to type" or just like the parent plant, as long as it has not cross-pollinated with another variety. You can save seed from open-pollinated varieties. Seed that is noted to be a hybrid would be the result of pollen from one variety fertilizing the flower of another variety; cross pollination. You would not want to save seed from a hybrid as it would not grow "true to type" to the plant you saved the seed from.

Existing open-pollinated seed varieties need care and attention to ensure the desired original characteristics are preserved. In our Organic Conservation Breeding Program we select varieties for their original positive attributes, and continuously adapt them to the organic growing conditions. Territorial Select Strains are unique organic seed varieties that are the result of this program. Many of our varieties have been grown and selected under organic conditions for over 25 years and are well adapted to low-input farming and gardening practices.

We are committed to providing the broadest possible range of proven true-to-type, high quality organic seed varieties for home garden and professional organic farming. Look for the varieties with the Territorial Select icon, for seed grown at our organic farm from our Organic Conservation Breeding Program. Biodynamic agriculture is the oldest certified ecological farming system in the world and has an assurance of quality since Founded by Austrian scientist and philosopher, Dr.

Rudolf Steiner, this method regards the earth as a living organism and strives to renew the soil in order to produce food that is full of vitality and is deeply nourishing.

You can find out what zone you live in here. Territorial is a privately held company, wholly owned by Tom and Julie Johns. To learn more about our company, please visit the About Us page. To use an organic fertilizer in a cost effective manner, spread the fertilizer around the plant or incorporate it into the soil to a depth of 4—16 inches.

Above is a formula for a complete and well-balanced fertilizer. All quantities are in volume, so the items may be scooped out. Mix thoroughly and store in a dry place. Seed meal means any kind of ground-up seed, which is usually a by-product of oil making. Cottonseed, soy, canola and linseed meals are usually available. Click to see full answer Correspondingly, what seed companies does Monsanto own? Dow, Dupont, Bayer, Syngenta and even BASF, the German corporation that's the largest chemical company in the world, all have a stake in crop production Monsanto is the largest seed producer and owner of seed -production companies in the world.

Secondly, who is the best seed company? Burpee is NOT owned by Monsanto. We do purchase a small number of seeds from the garden seed department of Seminis, a Monsanto subsidiary, and so do our biggest competitors. The majority of Miracle - Gro's product line is filled with chemicals and synthetics. They do have some product that is organic and certified by OMRI. Scott's, the parent company of Miracle - Gro , is in bed with Monsanto and are the exclusive agent of Round-Up.

Look for ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, corn starch, or corn vegetable oil and avoid the foods they are in if they aren't marked organic.

This Nestle brand, known for providing frozen prepared foods for families, is no stranger to being one of the brands owned by Monsanto. Stouffer's is listed as one of the companies that supported Monsanto's attempts to keep businesses from acknowledging genetically modified organisms. It is one of the main shareholders of L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company.

Monsanto is a major producer of pesticides and genetically modified crops, selling a package of farm products that have improved yields and cut down on some pest problems. But while that business has made the company popular with many farmers, a series of scandals have damaged its reputation with consumers. Burpee has always supplied safe, non-GMO hybrids, tried and true heirloom seeds , as well as certified organic varieties that are recognized as organic under the Oregon Tilth Certification, a subsidiary of USDA regulatory.

Founded in , Monsanto was one of a handful of companies that produced Agent Orange , and its main poison, Dioxin. While saving seed and even exchanging seed with other farmers for biodiversity purposes has been a traditional practice, these practices have become illegal for the plant varieties that are patented or otherwise owned by some entity often a corporation.

Seminis' regular, non - GMO seeds are carried by many popular garden catalogs including Burpee , and most large chains of nurseries and hardware stores. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Seed Savers Exchange. I believe that seed houses who began to distance themselves from Seminis and find alternate seed options as quickly as possible while being sensitive to the potential business hit from lack of inventory were reacting to the Monsanto buyout of Seminis in an ethical way.

Meanwhile, Seminis, now under control of Monsanto, began to dramatically downsize the seeds they offered. Variety lost out to classic profit-makers.

Now, the Seminis Home Gardener offerings are slim and not particularly impressive: one green cabbage, one red one. A single variety of broccoli.

In other words, Seminis has become progressively less and less relevant to the needs of garden and market growers, while becoming more and more like its parent company. No real surprise there. Territorial is owned by Tom and Julie Johns, who have owned the company since they bought it from its founder, Steve Soloman.

The truth is, in the real world of real business practical considerations, I think they are both running superb businesses and doing much to educate gardeners.

Territorial is amazing at bringing Cascadia-specific varietals to the seed market, something I greatly appreciate. I believe Territorial handled the Monsanto buyout of Seminis ethically and reasonably, and have been happy to do business with them through this protracted transition as they have worked — successfully — to replace all their Seminis varieties with other successful strains of seed.

I may go plant some seeds to celebrate! I encourage all gardeners to do their own research into where to buy seeds. There are many, many wonderful regional seedhouses that are working hard to get the best seeds to the gardeners in their biozone. All else being equal, buying local is a good idea with seeds, as with so much else.

Any seed house worth supporting will be thrilled to talk seed with you and answer whatever questions you have. Please feel free to pass this along when you see — as you will — misinformation or confusion about this issue. This is the full text of the email I received from Territorial in regards to their Monsanto ties:. We are owned by Tom and Julie Johns. They purchased the company from Steve Solomon in Thank you so much for your inquiry regarding our situation with Seminis Seeds.

We do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds or plants. We believe this pledge is important and is consistent with our value system. Presently we offer 15 or so vegetable seed varieties from Seminis, all of which pre-existed their acquisition by Monsanto. This is a very small percentage of our overall seed selection and we do not see this relationship growing in the future.

We have been asked to continue to carry these items until a suitable replacement with adequate supply is obtainable. We have many cooperators from all over the world that help us bring the best varieties of seed to our customers. We will continue to plant our own trials where we can observe growth and yield performance as well as conduct our own taste tests to insure our customers are getting the best of the best.

As we find improved varieties to our Seminis offerings we are replacing them. We continue to add many heirloom and OG seeds, at the level of quality that our customers expect, as quickly and as reasonably possible.

I hope that this explanation helps to clarify and answer your question. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to email us or contact us at ! I garden, keep chickens and ducks, homeschool my two kids and generally run around making messes on my one-third of an acre in suburban Seattle. Thanks for reading!

Thank you, Erica! You have done a great service to all gardeners by clarifying this issue. Happy New Year and happy growing! I know for a fact that Territorial Seed Company is not owned by Monsanto. I hope that you fix this wrong information. Erica posted to clarify why there was confusion around the issue and I simply thanked her as did many others for letting us know.

Myself or my family and friends will never purchase seeds from territorial. I am glad they are not doing business with Monsanto , but that is not my complaint. Their customer service is rude. My sister placed an order to try them out and shipping fees were not clear. Instead of kindly explaining it to her, they went off on her and exclaimed it was just a small order. Shame on them. I called and exclaimed my disgust with their rudeness and suggested they call her and apologize- and yes it was that bad.

They would not, and would not do anything to reduce the confused shipping fee for their rudeness. They have now suffered a loss of future business of seven brothers and sisters who purchase a lot of seeds for their gardens. Not to mention future business of friends and family. No one wants to be treated like that.