Somers Seed Lending Library

A Community Heirloom Seed Lending Project

NEW!!!! ORDER YOUR SEEDS FROM HOME AND PICK THEM UP ALREADY PACKAGED  AT THE LIBRARY
If you would like to order seeds for pick up at the library, please fill out the online form.

To access the form please click HERE.

Seed List 2023 Listed Below

Somers Seed Lending Library is a free community heirloom seed lending project, demonstrating that libraries check out more than books! The idea is simple. Growers get enough seed to grow 3-4 plants from the seed catalog located behind the Reference Desk, record what they are taking with them as well as basic contact information for later in the season. Then they grow their plants during the season. At the end of the growing season for that plant, the grower harvests as usual, but saves some of the seed for next season, and returns a portion, usually 2-3 times the starting amount (or more) to the seed library to continue the cycle.

Our current list is subject to updates, so please check back often.

 

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Somers Seed Library Selection 2023

Seed in GOLD can be planted in the fall!

 

Beans and Peas Golden Sweet Snow Pea Monte Gusto Yellow Bean Royal Snap II Pea   Velour Haricot Vert Bush Bean Dragon’s Tongue Bean Python [Asian Specialty Bean]	Lettuce and Salad Greens Bauer Lettuce [Oakleaf] Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce (Leaf) Deer Tongue Organic Lettuce [Bibb] Ezflor Organic Pelleted Lettuce Jericho Organic Lettuce (baby leaf) Red Cross Organic Lettuce [butterhead] Rouge d’Hiver Organic Lettuce [red Romaine]
Broccoli, Cauliflower and Brussel Sprouts [Cabbage family] Clementine Cauliflower (orange head)   Long Island Improved Brussel Sprouts Piracicaba Broccoli	Salad and Asian Greens Benefine Endive [Frisee] Mizuna (Japanese Green)   Tendergreen Komatsuna Britton Shiso Tatsoi
Root Vegetables (Beets, Carrots, Turnips) & Rhubarb Babybeat Beet [Mini] Chioggia Guardsmark Beet Danvers Carrot Dragon Carrot Purple Top White Globe Turnip Touchstone Gold Organic Beet Victoria Rhubarb	Melons and Cucumbers Banana Melon Minnesota Mini Melon Snow Leopard Melon (Honeydew) Boothby’s Blonde Cucumber Unagi (Asian cucumber)
Corn Vision MXR Yellow Corn American Dream BiColor Corn	Spinach, Chard and Kale Asian Delight [Bok Choy] Dino Kale Kolibri Spinach Oriole Organic Swiss Chard Terek Kohlrabi
Eggplant / Peppers Cupid Bell Pepper [Mini] Fish Hot Pepper Jimmy Nardello’s Sweet Pepper Listada di Gandia Eggplant	Squash / Pumpkins Black Futsu Japanese Butternut Squash Cinnamon Girl Pumpkin Multipik Yellow Summer Squash North Georgia Candy Roaster [Hubbard Squash]  Jester Delicata Squash
Herbs Basil Bouquet Chinese Leeks/Garlic Chives   Confetti Cilantro/Coriander Cumin Florence Fennel German Chamomile Lovage Menuette Parsley [Fern Leaf]   Mrs. Burns Lemon Basil Salad Burnet Herb Vertissimo Chervil	Tomatoes Berkeley Pink Tie Dye Tomato Blush Organic Tomato [Artisan yellow snacking] Brandywine Tomato Cherokee Green Tomato De Milpa Organic Tomatillo Gardener’s Delight Tomato (cherry) Speckled Roman Tomato
Onions, Leeks and Radishes Creme Brulee Shallot Guardsman Bunching Onion   King Richard Leek Nelson Radish Rossa di Milano Onion	Flowers Arikara Sunflower   Broken Colors Four O’Clocks  Hopi Red Dye Amaranthus Love-In-A-Mist Nigella Pleurisy Root Asclepias (Butterfly Weed) Sparky French Mix Marigold

Our hope is that you will enjoy gardening and picking the fruits of your hard labor. Along with saving seeds, consider checking out some great books on gardening and cooking to experience a true culinary treat! 

Donations are gratefully accepted to help grow our seed library. Checks can be made out to the Friends of Somers Library, with a note in the memo field stating "For Seed Library." Also on our wish list: new packets of Heirloom Seeds.

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