Heirloom Seeds and Plants Heirloom vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs are varieties that have remained popular with home gardeners because they grow well and taste great. Loosely defined as plant varieties that have been grown for at least three generations (and sometimes for three or more centuries!), heirloom food plants are varieties that have been [...]
A Royal Vegetable Garden and more
Some of you may have seen this already, but it’s worth repeating. The British Royal family has started a vegetable garden at Buckingham Palace. This is great news! The idea seems to be similar to what we are seeing here- to promote family gardening and growing one’s own food, if even on a limited scale. [...]
Visiting one of our growers!
We are currently in Sacramento, CA to visit one of our growers! This is an exciting trip for us, as we expect to learn a lot and get some ideas for new seed offerings and direction for Underwood Gardens/Terroir Seeds. I hope to take a bunch of good photos of the soil and our plants [...]
How to store your seeds for next year.
We get a lot of questions on how to save seeds. Most of them are general seed saving questions, but most boil down to how to save seeds for the next year. Most of the seed packets have more seeds than will be used in one year, and most seeds are good for several years [...]

New happenings at Underwood Gardens
We are finishing up our raised bed garden, and wanted to show you what we have been working on. The raised beds will be both production garden for our family, and a test garden for the seed business. Our garden is 35 x 70 feet; smaller than some, larger than others. There are several projects [...]
- Rock Star of the Garden- Szechuan Buttons or Toothache Plant January 19, 2012
- Dijon Roasted Heirloom Beets January 19, 2012
- Planning and Planting Your Spring Garden January 19, 2012
- Organic Food Production Can Feed the World January 11, 2012
- Where Did My Favorite Heirloom Seeds Go? January 4, 2012
- Complimentary Heirloom Seeds with Your Order December 22, 2011
- What Are Heirloom Seeds? December 18, 2011
- Sopa de Tomate con Albóndigas or Tomato Soup with Meatballs December 11, 2011
- “The Dirty Life- A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love” by Kristin Kimball December 7, 2011
- Armenian Cucumber- Best Tasting, Burpless Home Grown Cucumber December 5, 2011
- Rock Star of the Garden- Szechuan Buttons or Toothache Plant January 19, 2012
- Dijon Roasted Heirloom Beets January 19, 2012
- Planning and Planting Your Spring Garden January 19, 2012
- Organic Food Production Can Feed the World January 11, 2012
- Where Did My Favorite Heirloom Seeds Go? January 4, 2012
- Complimentary Heirloom Seeds with Your Order December 22, 2011
- What Are Heirloom Seeds? December 18, 2011
- Sopa de Tomate con Albóndigas or Tomato Soup with Meatballs December 11, 2011
- “The Dirty Life- A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love” by Kristin Kimball December 7, 2011
- Armenian Cucumber- Best Tasting, Burpless Home Grown Cucumber December 5, 2011
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- Vince Rush: Another reason for spring to hurry up and get here...
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- Stephen: Hope it helps, as there are a lot of folks that do...
- Stephen: Thanks, Gwen! Both Cindy and myself really got a l...
- Stephen: Great idea, Heather! I just added it to #9 of gett...
- Heather: Good article to get us all planning, but I have on...
- Gwen Holt: I have this book and loved it. Think that I will ...
- Gwen Holt: This article was interesting and informative. Tha...
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