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I like the pics on this site. It take a few moments to download a catalogues. Prices prorate are good but designed for professional growers so larger packet sizes but some lovely pictures.http://www.ballcolegrave.co.uk/Growers/_catalogues.aspx
I've been looking at Terwins site, looks nice and I've placed a small order, I'll let you know how I get on.
After seeing how many seed banks there are i realise that searching themwould be ... very, very time consuming.Ideas: (1) Someone should start a seed 'index' website that allows visitors to search all the seedbanks looking for specific types of seeds or varieties of seeds, cultivars, hybrids, etc. (2) Someone should figure out how to configure google to only search a specific set of websites (eg seed banks) -- perhaps this idea could be employed in idea (1) above. (3) Someone should create a search engine, like google, that's focused on fruit and veggie growing, agricultural supplies and services.If any of these 3 ideas has already been implemented could you kindlypost a comment to this thread and let me please ?Thanks to anyone who repliesplayground :)
Seedbanks are not designed or intended to be sources of seed for general growing. They provide special interest seed, for example seeds for a specific gene or for specific research. They often stipulate in their MTAs (material transfer agreement) that no profit will be made from their seed or that research carried out will be shared with them. A great deal of their accessions are not named, just numbered, so that would just not work out in practice. If looking for something specific for a reason, we will just have to wade through and possibly need to convince the seedbank why we want something. They don't see themselves as suppliers of seeds to the general public.Most of the other seed sources can be googled quite successfully by adding the word 'seed' after whatever it is we are looking for.