Albert's Greenhouse

It's winter. It's cold outside. Time to sit by the fire, and see what the mailman brought us this year... This is part of a series of short looks at some of the plant catalogs that arrived in January.

Catalog: Seeds of Change
Cover Plant: A buncha wholesome people and a buncha wholesome plants with some nice friendly insects like butterflies and ladybugs. Not the mealybugs and whitefly.
Paper: Thin, semi-glossy, 84 pgs
Pictures: Color Throughout

Selling Ice to Eskimos: Purslane $2.79/500 seeds. This stuff is the 2nd most common weed I have here in northern California. Despite being slightly unsure if the particular type I have is edible, I think I'll pass on this one.
Cost of the Black Colocasia: Not. Even.
Cost of the Beefsteak Tomato: Brandywine, $2.59/ 50 seeds.
Best Bet: Giant Szegedi Pepper $2.59/50 seeds. Szeged is famous for paprika, and now you can apparently make your own!

Well, color me green! It's organic, it's in full color, and somehow they can provide every packet of seed for under $3.00. You also get at least 50 seeds in most packages.

And they sell weird things like yacon, edible chrysanthemum and beetberry.

I've never ordered from them, but this is enough in comparison to Burpee to make me want to start. On just about every page there's something a little unusual.