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Don't forget Summer Planting for Fall Harvest! Much of your fall garden needs to be started in June and July. Check out Fall Gardening Information from our own Ken Bezilla and a Simple Winter Gardening Guide from Brett Grohsgal of Even' Star Organic Farm.

Our new events page shows where you can find us in the coming months! We'll be going to several heirloom tomato tasting events in late July and early Augst as well as hosting seed swaps, selling seeds and answering your gardening questions, all over the mid-Atlantic and southeast.

This year's Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello will be Saturday, September 11th, 2010, in Charlottesville, Virginia, with pre-festival events at Monticello and Charlottesville's Local Food Hub on Friday, September 10th. Visit us at HeritageHarvestFestival.com

We provide a guide to Recommended Planting Dates for the mid-Atlantic and southeast. These dates roughly correlate to our Mountains, Inland Plains, and Coastal regions and are loosely based on a joint project by the Virgnia Master Gardeners and the Virginia Externsion Service, although we've made some adjustments.

You can print this year's order form if you'd like to mail in your order.

See our List of 2010 Catalog Updates for changes to our inventory.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is a wonderful source for heirloom seeds and other open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds seeds with an emphasis on vegetables, flowers, and herbs that grow well in the Mid-Atlantic region. We support seed saving and traditional seed breeding. Seed savers and breeders are to thank for our rich selection and we will do whatever we can to support our customers and associates to carry on this noble tradition.

We do extensive germination and purity testing of our garden seeds and nursery stock to ensure that we can always provide our customers with the highest quality possible. We want your plants to excel.

Though the majority of seed savers that we contract to help us raise our seeds do so using traditional natural methods, some have opted not to become Certified Organic. The new USDA Organic rules state that in order to grow Certified Organic produce, growers must plant Certified Organic seeds if suitable certified seeds are available. We are therefore committed to offer organic seeds whenever possible for our varieties that we feel are well-suited to market growers, contracting our non-certified but philosophically organic growers to raise seeds that are more suited for home use.

Please browse our mail-order site to find heirloom tomatoes, peppers, ginseng, potato onions, okra, naturally colored cotton, southern-style greens, and much more. We think that after you try them, you'll agree that our tomatoes taste better!

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange P.O. Box 460 Mineral, VA 23117 Phone: 540-894-9480 Fax: 540-894-9481 Email: gardens@southernexposure.com Please include the word "SESE" in your Email's subject.