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.
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 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) |
Salad and Asian Greens Benefine Endive [Frisee] Mizuna (Japanese Green) |
Root Vegetables (Beets, Carrots, Turnips) & Rhubarb Babybeat Beet [Mini] Touchstone Gold Organic Beet Victoria Rhubarb |
Melons and Cucumbers Snow Leopard Melon (Honeydew) Unagi (Asian cucumber)
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Corn Vision MXR Yellow Corn American Dream BiColor Corn |
Spinach, Chard and Kale Asian Delight [Bok Choy] Kolibri Spinach Oriole Organic Swiss Chard Terek Kohlrabi
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Eggplant / Peppers Cupid Bell Pepper [Mini] |
Squash / Pumpkins Black Futsu Japanese Butternut Squash Cinnamon Girl Pumpkin North Georgia Candy Roaster [Hubbard Squash] |
Herbs Chinese Leeks/Garlic Chives Menuette Parsley [Fern Leaf] Salad Burnet Herb Vertissimo Chervil |
Tomatoes Blush Organic Tomato [Artisan yellow snacking] Gardener’s Delight Tomato (cherry) |
Onions, Leeks and Radishes Guardsman Bunching Onion Nelson Radish |
Flowers Pleurisy Root Asclepias (Butterfly Weed)
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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.