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Random thoughts from Jere Gettle and the Baker Creek family. Over 1,300 heirloom seed varieties. Working to save good food.
Mansfield, MO
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Pusa Asita Black carrots are among the most nutritious vegetables you can grow! Amazing color!
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The berry that almost went extinct! Boysenberry is a hardy and disease-resistant plant, and the fruits are incredibly flavored and delicate! --->
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If you are looking for a way to support the Ukrainian people under siege, consider buying Baker Creek seeds this weekend. All sales go to humanitarian relief now through midnight CST Sunday, Feb. 27.
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Our gardens are growing beautifully in the cool spring weather!
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Purple of Sicily cauliflower is a long-standing flavor favorite on our farm! Amazing dipped in dressing or sautéed in olive oil! So beautiful and fun to grow. More flavorful, bright green stems and purple flowers are richer tasting than standard cauliflower.
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It’s watermelon time! We are enjoying the sweetest root of Autumn, the incredible Chinese Red Meat Radish! It has to be grown in the late summer and fall and into winter to attain its maximum sweetness!
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Have you ever tried a black radish? These Black Spanish radishes make big and bold-tasting roots!
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Grilled Sunflower Head is amazing! Eat like corn on the cob or use a fork to separate the cooked seeds from the flower head. Yum!
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The longest-rooted carrot we've seen--easily exceeds two feet. Superior when autumn-grown in a carrot box or other deep container. Straight slender roots are so fine-flavored and sweet harvested after fall frosts!
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Having a hard time deciding which Zinnia color to plant this year? Grow all of them with this Cupid Mix Zinnia! Cute, thumbelina mix of jewel-toned 1-inch blooms make this a charming choice for kids to grow and for cottage garden designs. Wildly attractive to pollinators!
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Here's a simple way to save your favorite heirloom tomato seeds! Tips and video courtesy from Ben Cohen
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We are excited about this! 👇
Malia is holding a 126-pound Giant Bushel gourd. It is dried down to just a few pounds and makes a great container. Our largest one last year weighed 217 pounds! 💪
We hope to have the seed available later next month! 🙏
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And just like that... It's Christmas all over again! 🌨️
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🙌🏼 We're back! 🙌🏼
Our seed store in Mansfield, MO is open for guests! 🎉
🌱 Hours are 9-5 Monday-Friday.
🌱 Our vegan restaurant is open for lunch on Fridays only, from 11:30-2pm
🌱 Beginning June 10, our Petaluma, California store will be open 10-4pm Sunday-Thursday.
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Always be careful of wildlife when weeding! Turtle eggs can often overwinter in soil & hatch in the late spring, just like this little fellow in our strawberry patch! Post pictures of some of the things you've found in your garden!
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Gniff carrot 🥕 the glorious and flavorful heirloom from Switzerland 🇨🇭! We are harvesting a rainbow of carrots from our greenhouse right now!
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Leydy Pech has done wonderful work in beekeeping, a key part of Mayan culture and quite important economically. Congratulations!
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Sorry don't think we'll carry these seeds, think it is a hybrid variety and we are an heirloom seed company :)
So uh... any chance you guys are carrying seeds for this kind of bush
@rareseeds
because I kinda need this.
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⛔️ BREAKING NEWS ⛔️
The Manpukuji is out! 😱
Harvesting these carrots that grew in tall tubes over the fall and winter was a group effort! They didn't grow all the way to the bottom of the 8'-tall tubes, but they were still impressively long — about 44"! 🙌
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A beauty to behold, a marvel of nature, this exotic radish is a delight to snack on! Sweet and crunchy. Try the RED BEAUTY this autumn for a great winter supply.
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For those who have a pile of seeds hiding in the closet... 😎
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Who's harvesting carrots 🥕 in January?! Shannie is in Central Florida where carrots are in full swing and tasting delish! The recent cool weather has made for sublimely sweet roots!
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Have you tried Royal Golden Watermelon??? The most beautiful watermelon we carry; the rind of this heirloom turns brilliant golden-yellow when ripe!
Seeds here->
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It's the Christmas Armadillo! Making his rounds at Baker Creek!
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Brightening your Monday 🌞 with the smiles of Malia and Cyan enjoying yummy Manpukuji carrot juice🍹!
Did you know that:
🥕 These carrots can easily reach over 2' in length when grown in the right soil
🥕 They taste so sweet, especially when harvested after fall frost
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We're overwhelmed by your generosity! 🙏
Together we generated $1.6 million for the relief organization
@world_help
to provide urgent humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine. This stands as our largest fundraiser to date!
Please keep praying! 🇺🇦 💙💛
#StandWithUkraineNOW
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Micro Tom tomatoes are the ultimate mini mater with tiny 6” tall plants that produce abundantly. Here’s a 4 x 4 bed of them in the greenhouse
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Did you know celosia and cockscomb make amazingly beautiful tea, and drinks, for coloring desserts naturally, and more? 🤓
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Baker Creek customer Herlina Schmitt's 5-year-old is excited to have made her first order of seeds. You're never too young to start growing heirloom varieties!
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We apologize, but due to the unprecedented volume of seed orders, our website will be closed beginning Friday, 01/16 at 3 a.m. CST & reopening on Wednesday, 01/20 at 10 p.m. CST, to give us time to catch up on orders, restock seed supplies and clean and sanitize our workspaces.
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Due to a large volume of orders & a significant number of staff members in quarantine due to COVID-19, we have temporarily taken our website offline so that we can process orders & restock. All orders already placed are being processed. Apologies for the inconvenience!
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This is super cool!
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Manpukuji Japanese Carrots grow to immense length. Great for juicing! 🥕🥕🥕
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The Christmas catalog for gardeners, 500 pages of cool seeds and more! Soon Available at retailers nationwide and available now on our website! A great gift 🎁
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The gardens are resting under a blanket of snow... ❄️
and we are all dreaming of spring. 💐
⛔️ PS: sorry for the delays in shipping your seeds, but we are shipping seeds as fast as we can!
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These paintings brightened our hearts when we saw them in the mail, and we like to share them with you! Arts by Nick Romo!
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Now that's a pretty rice field! 😍
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Incredible pink and white dandelions! New for 2020! The pink lemonade colored flowers come from central Asia, and the pearly white flowers come from Japan. These look amazing in your yard or garden, they are blooming here at Baker Creek now.
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Don't forget to eat some black-eyed peas to bring you luck for the New Year!
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The orange accordion tomatoes are ripening in our trial garden!
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We thank you for your patience as we took the time to restock in the past few days! Our website should functioning as normal at 5 pm CT! And, yes, this beautiful Pusa Gulabi radish is in stock!
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Blue Disc African Daisy is always a favorite! It is blooming beautifully in our greenhouse right now.
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A beautiful Mammoth Grey Sunflower from our friend, Mike Powers!
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Baker Creek customer Sarah decided to grow her own wedding flowers, she emailed our garden experts for advice on best everlasting varieties, and we helped to make a growing plan Here are her gorgeous, homegrown wedding flowers!
Photo credit: Carissa Gross
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Rebekah Allen tomatoes never fail! This pink slicer boasts a positively superb flavor! The flavor is perfect—an ideal balance of sweet to tart, with complex “old fashioned” undertones. What is the best tomato variety in your garden?
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NEW FOR 2021! Superior breeding efforts have resulted in one of the most delectable and color-saturated tomatoes we have seen! Plants produce bunches of 2" globes, round & brilliant blue, maturing to a golden yellow with blue shoulders. Perfect to snack on or for salads!
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💚💚 Our first “green” beans of the season! 💚💚
These beautiful Red Swan 🦢 beans were grown in one of our greenhouses. Thick, flavorful pods, with lovely pink flowers 💗, too! --->
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DID YOU KNOW that Kyoto Red carrots are traditionally eaten on the Japanese New Year, often carved into the shape of a plum blossom to represent fertility in the coming year? They have an exceptional texture and sweet flavor. Perfect variety for late summer, fall or winter!
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How tall can you go? 😱
This picture of Hopi Black Dye sunflower was shared on our FB page by Susan Margetts. It is 14 feet 6 inches!
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Our first tomatoes of the season! We are again enjoying the luscious taste of Atomic Grape tomatoes!
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Website will be going down temporarily today at 2 PM CST and returning sometime next Monday(4/13/2020), we need this time to catch up on orders and refill our depleted shelves, we thank you all as traffic has been unprecedented in these trying times.
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Grow a rainbow of carrots!!! What are you planning to grow in your garden this year??? 👨🌾🌈
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We thank you for your patience and understanding 🙏... our website has been closed since Friday to give us time to catch up on orders, restock seed supplies, and clean and sanitize our workspaces. We will be live again on February 3rd at 10 p.m. CST! --->
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Very exquisite! 😍
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A new study reveals that bumblebees force plants to flower by making tiny incisions in their leaves—a discovery that has stunned bee scientists!
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When fall is in the air, do a
#leafstackchallenge
! Here's ours stacked by leaves of Myanmar Purple Sweet Potato, Forest Fire Celosia, and Snake Gourd! Show us yours! Here's how to make your own --->
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Is it a bean or a corn kernel?! Succotash Bean is a uniquely shaped, dime-sized bean closely resembles a kernel of corn. A rare, ancient bean from the Narragansett Indian tribe of Rhode Island. Was used for succotash & ideal for the north, particularly on the coast!
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This technique works for this farmer! What is your trick in preserving tomatoes??? 🍅
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There are too many amazing basils! Which one is your favorite??? 😍😍😍
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Psst 🤫... Just in case you didn't know, we change the color scheme on our website 💻 every so often.
And we just changed it into pink 🌷 for those of you who need inspiration for... pink garden? 🤷♀️😆
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NEW FOR 2021! An early and very adaptable carrot that can be planted outside from March-July. Don't be fooled by its name “longue” as it is in fact a half-long conical carrot with a very firm texture that helps with conservation. Amazingly, it will keep its colors after cooking.
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As the United States is celebrating Independence Day, it's a perfect time to recognize that one expression of freedom is food sovereignty... Plant a garden today!
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Do you love watermelon to the moon and back?! Grow Moon and Stars watermelon which can grow to over 40 lbs. The dark green rind has bright yellow spots on it! Very sweet, brilliant red flesh!
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Millionaire Tomato 🍅 has its roots deep in the Ozark, and thanks to the power of seed saving 🙌, it still exists today!
Read its history here! --->
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Planting single colors en masse is a tremendous way to create ambiance in the garden. Gothic style gardens, planted with all black flowers create a dramatic dreamscape!
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That is enormous! 😱😍
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Only 18 days! Just as its name says, this radish will yield roots in 18 days under ideal conditions! A French classic! Quick and delicious! 😋
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Known in China as “beauty heart," is offered by us as Chinese Red Meat, & often sold commercially as Watermelon Radish. Probably the sweetest and best-tasting radish you will ever try! Must be grown in the late summer and into winter to reach perfection.
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This 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐭 is the 💣!
Made with Queen of Night tomatoes 🍅 which are loaded with rich sweetness! This German favorite is perfect for snacking, salads, and cooking!
For recipe, follow thread!
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A rainbow of delicious carrot juice from our greenhouses! Amazing flavors, delicious sweet fruity taste. Our
#1
favorite is the Kyoto Red juice with hints of watermelon & strawberry, mixed with very sweet carrots taste. Grow your way to better health & nutrition!
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Have you tried the HABANADA? 🤓
The world’s first truly heatless habanero 🌶! We love these sugary-sweet, full-flavored treats in both sweet and savory dishes! Loads of production, and so easy to grow. Tropical fruit flavor and they have a nice fragrance!
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Instead of worrying about the future and whether that scratchy throat you woke up with this morning is something serious, plant a Victory Garden.
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We received this lovely letter from Brooklyn Community Gardens and are amazed at how many accomplishments these gardeners have done in their gardens!
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Do you eat PURPLE? We harvested these Molokai Purple Sweet Potatoes last week! Very sweet-fleshed and creamy, with overtones of chestnut. Perfect as-is when baked or roasted, needing no further adornment! Live Plants soon will be available on our website!
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Here's a guide on how to grow peppers in pots!
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All Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds sales proceeds from Sept. 29 through Oct. 6 will go towards hurricane relief efforts!
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From panic planting to cooperative gardens, farmers focused on equity and food justice know that ‘if you can feed yourself, you can free yourself.’
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NEW FOR 2021! Micro mini tomato, just the size of a tiny pea, what Spoon lacks in size, it makes up in flavor! This variety packs tons of bold classic red, tangy tomato flavor, a kid's favorite! Spoon tomatoes pop in your mouth when you bite into them; they're a joy to eat & grow
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3 ways to eat nasturtiums:
1. Flowers eaten raw in salads
2. Leaves used as spring roll wrappers
3. Seeds can be pickled like capers
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The Whole Seed Catalog is going to the printers this week! All 500 pages, so much cool new stuff and stories! Pre-order your copy today and get a special discount! --->
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For the most simple, beautiful rice, do this! 👇🏼
Japanese Giant Red mustard is anthocyanin rich, easy to grow, and so colorful! 💜
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NEW FOR 2021! Massive, golf ball-sized, blue-green poppy pods on sturdy stems with heavenly lavender to pink petals and some of the largest pods we have ever grown that are full of breadseed! Highly sought after by flower farmers, home gardeners, bakers and chefs alike!
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THE MOMENT you have been waiting for! NOW you can preorder the 2021 Whole Seed Catalog with these fluffy Chinese Wool flowers as the cover! --->
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Looking for some great plants that work as compost activators and boosters? Look no further than these nutrient-rich compost powerhouses!
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