Longing for an old-fashioned approach to vegetable gardening? Then you’ll appreciate the no-nonsense attitude of the catalog from Fisher’s Seeds in Belgrade, Mont.

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When I spread my transcript of Fisher ’s Seeds catalogue , I feel like I was accept a step back in clock time . And in a way I was .

I ordinate my catalogue months ago by sending $ 2 through the U.S. mail with a hope the catalog would be place when it was ready in January .

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The catalogue has the same down - to - earth feel as the heirloom veg seeds it feature on its black and blanched pages . There are n’t any fancy pic or glow descriptions to perturb a gardener .

Fisher ’s SeedsPO Box 236Belgrade , MT 59714406 - 388 - 6052

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Fisher ’s Seeds was started in the former 1920s . Judy Fisher continues the family tradition of growing vegetable and flower , saving seed , test them , and offering them to raiser in and around Belgrade , Mont. Many of the open - pollinated varieties listed on the catalog ’s Sir Frederick Handley Page were developed years ago by her uncle Ken Fisher .

These seed are cultivars that do especially well in short - season and mellow - altitude gardens like those in Montana , Wyoming , Idaho and Colorado . The average growing time of year in the Gallatin Valley where Fisher ’s is locate is about 90 - 100 days . If you garden in an area with a longer raise time of year , you may get more than one harvesting , consort to the catalog .

Vegetable descriptions list the diverseness , the number of days to due date , a brusk description , and prices by packet , ¼ pound , ½ pound , and pound .

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There is a prissy assortment of veggie favorites , like beans , beet , broccoli , Brassica oleracea botrytis , edible corn , greens , herbs , potatoes and squash . All the tomato plant variety qualify as redundant - early because they can lay out yield in coolheaded weather and age anywhere from 50 to 60 sidereal day .

When gardener place their orders , they know their seed will be box by hand , one packet at a clip at Fisher ’s Garden Store before being beam by portion C. W. Post .

To get a Fisher ’s Seeds catalog , commit a chit or money order for $ 2 to Fisher ’s Seeds , P.O. Box 236 , Belgrade , MT 59714 ( 406 - 388 - 6052 ) .

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If you send for a catalogue this year , you ’ll be on the mailing list to get a complimentary catalog next January .

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