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This is a list of vegetable and fruit seeds that were sold in recent years by Canadian seed companies.
Click on a section in the list below to see the varieties available, and the companies that sold them. Visit these companies, buy their seeds, and enjoy a beautiful, diverse garden this summer!
Thank you to the donors who helped make this list possible:
Agrohaitai
Harmonic Herbs
Kitchen Table Seed House
La Finquita Seeds
Mumm's Sprouting Seeds
Nanoose Edible Farm
Richter's Herbs
Salt Spring Seeds
Sunshine Farm
Tourne Sol Co-operative Farm
Urban Harvest Organic Seed
Please note: Seeds of Diversity has no store, and no mail order seed sales. We collect back-up seed samples for conservation of endangered varieties, and recruit volunteers to help grow fresh seeds. This list is here to help you find commercial sources, and to help us set our conservation priorities.
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Bean - Varieties Sold in Canada
Admires
Adrin
Affirmed
Agassiz Pinto
Agate Pinto
Aldrin
Algarve
Amarillo
Amish Gnuttle
Anasazi
Andrew Kent
Anne's Tasty Green
Annelino Verde
Annelino Yellow
Annie Jackson
Annihilator
Antigua
Appaloosa / Vermont Appaloosa
Aramis
Arikara
Arikara Yellow
Aunt Alley's
Aunt Emma's
Aunt Jean's
Auntie Wilder
Aztec Red Kidney
BA 0958
BA 0999
Baccicia
Bai Bu Lao
Baie Verte
Beka Brown
Belarusian Black
Belarusian Green
Beurre à graine noire
Beurre de Rocquencourt
Big Mama
Big Red Kidney
Bis
Black Canterbury Dwarf
Black Coco
A'bunadh Seeds,
Harmonic Herbs,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Mapple Farm,
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Seeds for Food,
Sunshine Farm,
Terre Promise,
Urban Harvest,
Yonder Hill Farm Black Nightfall
Black Seeded Italian
Black Turtle
Black Valentine
A'bunadh Seeds,
Annapolis Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Hope Seeds and Perennials,
Les Jardins de l'Écoumène,
PEI Seed Alliance,
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Terra Edibles,
Urban Harvest,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Blauhilde
Blooming Prairie
Blue Bird Egg
Blue Bloom
Blue Coco
Blue Jay
A'bunadh Seeds,
Annapolis Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
PEI Seed Alliance,
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Seeds for Food,
Superior Seed Producers,
Terra Edibles,
Urban Harvest,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Blue Lake
Blue Lake 274
Blue Lake Bush
Blue Lake Bush OSU5630
Blue Lake Pole
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Eternal Seed,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Incredible Seed Company,
McKenzie Seed Co. Ltd,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Rainbow Seeds,
Richters Herbs,
Salt Spring Seeds,
Solana Seeds,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
Terra Edibles,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Blue Ribbon
Bobis
Borlotti / Cranberry Bean
Borlotti Romano
Borlotto Flamma
Borlotto Lemon
Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco
Borsalino
Bosnian Pole
Bowie
Brittle Wax / Round Pod Kidney
Bronco
Brown Case Knife
Brown Rice
Burpee's Stringless
Butterscotch Calypso
Cabot
Calima
Orca / Yin Yang / Calypso
Calypso Yin Yan
Campo di Fiori Romano
Canadian Wild Goose
Canadian Wonder
Candy
Cannelini Pole
Cannellini
Capitano
Caprice
Carmen
Carminat
Carson
Cascade Giant
Cassoulet
Castandel
Cathleen’s Orca
Celebration
Champlain Vachon
Châteaurenard Early Black
Cherokee Black
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Cherokee Wax
Flagg / Skunk / Chester
Chevrier Verte
Climbing French
Coco
Coco Bianco
Coco de Boheme
Coco Jaune de Chine
Coco Rubico
Coco Sophie
Colter
Comtesse de Chambord
Concador
Concador Yellow
Contare
Contender
Coral
Cranberry
Cumberland
Custard
Dandy Gold
Dandy Green
Dapple Grey
Dark Red Kidney
Daroi
Dedo's Day/Night
Delinel
Derby
Des Paysannes
Deseronto Potato
Desparado
Deuil Fin Precoce
Dolloff
Dove Creek Red
Dow Purple Pod
Dr. Wyche’s
Dragon Tongue / Langerie
A'bunadh Seeds,
Annapolis Seeds,
BC Eco Seed Co-op,
Brother Nature Organic Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Hope Seeds and Perennials,
Kitchen Table Seed House,
La Societe des plantes,
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Seeds of IMBOLC,
T & T Seeds Ltd.,
Terra Edibles,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Yonder Hill Farm Drew's Dandy
Duane Baptiste Potato
Dusky
Dutch Brown
Dutch Princess
DW360
Dwarf Green Stringless
Dwarf Horticultural
E-Z Gold
E-Z Pick
Early Mohawk
Early Pinkies
Early Riser
Early Thorogreen
Early Warwick
Early Yellow Six Weeks
Eastern Butterwax
Eilidh's Eden
Emerite
Emerité
Emerite
Empress
Eureka
Eva
Famille Boucher
Famille Jamroch
Fawcett’s
Ferland Family, Flat
Ferrari
Ferris
Fetterly
Fidulata
Fiesta
Fin de Bagnol
Fire Tongue
Fisher
Flageolet Dorato
Flageolet Merveille
Flagg / Skunk / Chester
Flambeau
Florence
Forelle Fleiderfarben
Fort Portal Jade
Fortex
Fortin's Family
French Horticultural
French Wax
Fruhe Goldbohne
Furano
GaGa Hut Pinto
Garden of Eden
Gaucho
George Murphy's Wax
Gerald's White
Giant Red Tarka
Gilmore Wonder
Giovanni
Gold Dust
Gold Marie
Gold Mine
Gold Play
Gold Rush
Annapolis Seeds,
Bird and Bee,
Cochrane Family Seeds,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Hope Seeds and Perennials,
Le Jardin de Julie,
Les Jardins du Grand-Portage,
Matchbox Garden and Seed Co.,
Metchosin Farm Seeds,
PEI Seed Alliance,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
T & T Seeds Ltd.,
Vesey's Seeds Ltd.,
W.H.Perron,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed,
William Dam Seeds Golden Butterwax
Golden Child
Golden Crescent
Golden of Bacau
Golden Pencil Pod
Golden Rocky
Golden Rod
Golden Wax
A'bunadh Seeds,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Eternal Seed,
Laughing Swan Farm,
Mycoflor,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
PEI Seed Alliance,
Terra Edibles,
The Seed Company by E.W. Gaze,
Urban Harvest,
Wildrose Heritage Seed,
Yonder Hill Farm Golden Wax Improved
Golden Yellow Wax
Goldfield
Goldilocks
Goldmarie
Goliath
Good Mother Stallard
Good Mother Stallard, Black
Goose Gullet
Grains de Cafe
Gramma Walter's
Grand-Maman Dinel
Grand-mère
Grandma Nellie’s Yellow Mushroom
Greasy Grits
Great Northern
Green Flageolet
Greencrop
Gysi
Hanna Hank
Harder
Harmony
Harvester
Harwig's Heirloom Belgium
Hawaii Green
Hawkesbury Wonder
Heritage Dore
Herrenbohnli
Hickok
Hidatsa
Hidatsa Shield Figure
Hidatsa Red
Hilda Romano
Hit
Honey
Hopi Black
Hunter
Hutterite Soup
Ice
Igloo
Imperial White
Improved Golden Wax
Inca Pea
Indy Gold
Inspiration
Ireland Creek Annie
Iroquois Cornbread
Isabel
Isar
Italian Flat Green Pole
Italian Pole
Jacob's Cattle / Trout / Appaloosa
Cochrane Family Seeds,
Full Circle Seeds,
Harmonic Herbs,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Le Jardin de Julie,
PEI Seed Alliance,
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Rainbow Seeds,
Seeds for Food,
Sunshine Farm,
Terra Edibles,
Urban Harvest,
Vesey's Seeds Ltd.,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Jacob's Cattle, Gold
Jade
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
Mycoflor,
PEI Seed Alliance,
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Seeds of IMBOLC,
Sunshine Farm,
Terra Edibles,
Terre Promise,
Urban Harvest,
Vesey's Seeds Ltd.,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
William Dam Seeds Jade II
Jade Pole
Jersey
Jesse Fisk
Jessy's Family Heirloom
Jimenez
John's
John’s Old
Jumbo
Junin
Kabarike
Kahl
Kahnawake Mohawk
Kashmir Thin
Kenearly Yellow Eye
Kentucky Blue
Kentucky Wonder / Old Homestead
A'bunadh Seeds,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
Richters Herbs,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Salt Spring Seeds,
Soggy Creek Seed Co.,
Terra Edibles,
The Seed Company by E.W. Gaze,
Urban Harvest,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Kentucky Wonder Blue
Kentucky Wonder Bush
Kentucky Wonder Green
Kentucky Wonder Wax
A'bunadh Seeds,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
McKenzie Seed Co. Ltd,
Mycoflor,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Rainbow Seeds,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
Terra Edibles,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Keygold
Kidney
King of the Early
Kinghorn Wax
Koronis
Laliberté
Lasallle
Lazy Wife Pole
Lemon Yellow
Lena's
Lewis
Light Brown Zebra
Light Red Kidney
Lillooet
Limelight
Lina Sisco's Bird Egg
Little White Rice
Littlefield’s Special
Loriot Yellow
Louisiana Purple
Low's Champion
Lu Qing
Lumberjack
Maccarone
Macuzalito
Magpie / Superlative
Maine Sunset
Maine Yellow Eye
Major
Mandan Black
Marconi, Black Seed
Marconi, White Seed
Martini
Marvel of Nictaux
Marvel of Venice
Mary Ison's Little Brown Bunch
Masai
Mascotte
Matilda
Maxi
Maxi Green
Maxibel
BC Eco Seed Co-op,
Full Circle Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Jardin des Vie-la-joie,
Les Jardins de l'Écoumène,
Matchbox Garden and Seed Co.,
Metchosin Farm Seeds,
Mycoflor,
Rainbow Seeds,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Urban Harvest,
Vesey's Seeds Ltd.,
West Coast Seeds Ltd. Mayan Red
Mayflower
Mbombo
McCormick's Wonder
Mennonite
Mennonite K Triple A
Mennonite Purple Stripe
Merveille de Piemonte
Métis Tigre Rouge et Blanc
Mexican Black
Mexican Pinto
Mexican Red
Midnight Black Turtle
Minnesota 1940's
Mistik
Mitla Black
Molasses Face
Mont D'Or
Montano
Montcalm
Monte Gusto
Montezuma Red
Mostoller Wild Goose
Mr. Fearn's
Mrocumiere
Mrs. Marotti's Romano
Musica
Navy
Neabel's Ukrainian
Nebraska Beauty
Neckargold
Neckargold Wax
Neckarkonigin
New Matador
Nez Perce
Nicaragua Revolution
Nicaraguan Black Turtle
Nora’s Baudette Baking Bean
Northeaster
Norwegian Brown
O'Driscoll
Oakley
Oaxacan Black
Oceanis
October Pole
Odawa Soup
Oja de Cabre
Orca / Yin Yang / Calypso
Annapolis Seeds,
Full Circle Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Harmonic Herbs,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Les Jardins du Grand-Portage,
Metchosin Farm Seeds,
PEI Seed Alliance,
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Rainbow Seeds,
Salt Spring Seeds,
Seeds for Food,
Terra Edibles,
Terre Promise,
Urban Harvest,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Orca variation
Oregon Giant
Orient Wonder
Othello Pinto
Outlaw
Painted Pony
Papa de Rola
Pawnee
Pencil Pod Black Wax
A'bunadh Seeds,
Berton Seeds,
Full Circle Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Les Jardins de l'Écoumène,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
McKenzie Seed Co. Ltd,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Terra Edibles Pepa De Zapallo
Peregion
Petit Carre de Caen
Pharaoh
Pike
Pink Kidney
Pinks
Pinto
Piros Fehrer
Pisarecka Zlutoluske
Plfaelzer Juni
Polish Pea
Polish Pole
Pretzel
Provider
A'bunadh Seeds,
Annapolis Seeds,
BC Eco Seed Co-op,
Bird and Bee,
Cochrane Family Seeds,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Eternal Seed,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Incredible Seed Company,
Jardin des Vie-la-joie,
Les Jardins du Grand-Portage,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
PEI Seed Alliance,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Salt Spring Seeds,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
T & T Seeds Ltd.,
Terra Edibles,
Three Forks Farms,
Vesey's Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed,
William Dam Seeds,
Yonder Hill Farm Purple Burgundy Pole
Purple Peacock
A'bunadh Seeds,
Annapolis Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Hope Seeds and Perennials,
Kitchen Table Seed House,
Mapple Farm,
Metchosin Farm Seeds,
Mycoflor,
Rainbow Seeds,
Salt Spring Seeds,
Sunshine Farm,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed,
Yonder Hill Farm Purple Podded
Purple Pole
Purple Queen
Purple Queen Improved
Purple Teepee
Qing Bian No.7
Quincy
Quincy Pinto
Ram's Horn
Ramdor
Rattlesnake Pole
Rattlesnake Snap / Preacher
Reade Krobbe
Record
Red Calypso
Red Flamed
Red Kidney
Red Mexican
Red Peanut
Red Swan
Red Valentine
Refugee
Remus
Robert's Royalty
Robin's Egg
Rocdor
A'bunadh Seeds,
BC Eco Seed Co-op,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Les semences du batteux,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
PEI Seed Alliance,
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Salt Spring Seeds,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
Superior Seed Producers,
Terra Edibles,
W.H.Perron,
William Dam Seeds Rockwell
Roja De Seda
Roma II
Romanian
Romano
Romano 14
Romano Bush
Romano Pole
Romano Pole Yellow
Round White Baking
Royal Burgundy
A'bunadh Seeds,
BC Eco Seed Co-op,
Berton Seeds,
Cochrane Family Seeds,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Florabunda Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Harmonic Herbs,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Hope Seeds and Perennials,
Le Jardin de Julie,
Les Jardins de l'Écoumène,
Les Jardins du Grand-Portage,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
Matchbox Garden and Seed Co.,
McKenzie Seed Co. Ltd,
Metchosin Farm Seeds,
Mycoflor,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Rainbow Seeds,
Richters Herbs,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Terra Edibles,
Three Forks Farms,
W.H.Perron,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed,
William Dam Seeds,
Yonder Hill Farm Royal City Cannery
Royalty
Ruckle
Russian Soup
Saint-Sacrement
Santa Anna
Saturday Night Special
Scandinavian
Scarlet Beauty
Scottish Brown
Selma Zebra
Sept-Iles
Sequoia
Serengeti Filet
Serpedor
Seychelles
Shirolustruca Kovina
Shuswap Red
Six Weeks
Slenderette / Classic
Slenderwax
Smeraldo
Snowcap
Flageolet / Soissons Vert
Soldier / Soldat de la Beauce
Soleil
Solwezi Tiger’s Eye
Speckled Algonquin
Speckled Cranberry
Speculator
Speedy
Stayton
Steeve's Caseknife
Stella
Straight 'n Narrow
Strike
Stringless Green Pod
Succotash
Sunburst
Sunset
Super Marconi, Black Seed
Super Marconi, White Seed
Magpie / Superlative
SV 1003GF
SV 1137GF
Swedish Brown
Sweeney Family Heirloom
Sybaris
Tanya's Pink Pod
Tapia
Tarbais
Tavera
Taylor Dwarf Horticulture / Wren's Egg
Teggia
Tendercrop
Tenderette
Tendergreen
A'bunadh Seeds,
Eternal Seed,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Le Jardin de Julie,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
Mycoflor,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Rainbow Seeds,
Richters Herbs,
Salt Spring Seeds,
T & T Seeds Ltd.,
Terra Edibles,
W.H.Perron,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Tendergreen Improved
Tene's
The Prince / Spanish Tolosana
Thibodeau de Comte
Thibodeau de St-Jules
Thibodeau du Comté de Beauce
Thibodeau du Comte de Beauce
Thibodeau du Comté de Beauce
Thousand to One
Tiger Eye / Pepa de Zepallo
Tiger's Eye
Tiger’s Eye
Tolosa Black
Tonello
Tongue of Fire / Lingua di Fuoco
Top Crop
Top Notch
Triomphe de Farcy
Trionfo Violetto
True Red Cranberry
Tung's / Mr. Tung's
Turkey Gizzard / Turkey Craw
Tuscahara Bread Pod
Uganda Bantu
Uganda Bantu mix
Ukrainian Comrades
Ukranian Soup
Valdor
Valentino
Velero
Velour
Venture
Vermont Cranberry
Vieux Flippe
Voletta
Wanda
Weiner Treib
White Horticultural
Wild Goose
Witsa
Worcester Indian
Wyatt
Yellow Eye
Yellow Goldrush
Yellow Wax Bush
Yer Fasulyasi
Zenith
Zuni Gold