WebGrower.com^SM

An educational resource of the Victory Seed Company

 "Preserving the future,
one seed at a time." ™

We are an early signer of the Safe Seed Pledge

All of our rare and heirloom seeds are public domain, open-pollinated, non-hybrid and chemically untreated. No chemicals, unstable hybrids, patented or genetically engineered seeds!

Informational Links

We do rely on the sale of seeds to fund our work, but our primary mission is to protect seeds.  One of our tools for doing this is through education and dissemination of information.

The following links are to tools and information located on our Web site.  In some cases, the links will lead you to other sites.

• Glossary of Terms

• Seed Topics

  • Simple Seed Germination Test

  • Seed Germination Rate Standards

    • The Effects of Temperature on Germination Rates

    • Historical Germination Rate Information

  • Seed Storage and Its Affects on Quality, Viability, and Germination

  • Seed Saving Tips

    • Tomato Seed Saving Step-By-Step Pictorial

    • "The Need For Seed" by Brook Elliott

• Gardening Topics

  • U.S. Gardening Resource Links Organized by State

    • Find Your U.S. Frost Dates

    • Find Your Canadian Frost Dates

    • Learn Your Plant Hardiness Zone

  • Successfully Starting Plants from Seeds

    • "Damping-off" - Description, causes and controls.

    • Using Frozen Food Trays for Starting Seed

    • Free Mini-Greenhouse for Seed Starting

  • General Garden Planting Guide

  • Gardening with Kids! - An overview and resource page.

  • Gardening Almanac Pages - What to do this month.

    • April Almanac

    • May Almanac

    • June Almanac

    • July Almanac

    • August Almanac

    • September Almanac

  • Why Grow Heirlooms - FAQ

  • "A Case for Gardening with Heirlooms" by Mike Dunton

  • Tomato Specific Information

    • Basic tomato seed saving tips.

    • Step by step tomato seed saving pictorial.

    • Tomato basket instructions.

    • Florida Weave Method of tomato trellising.

    • Why Grow Heirloom Tomatoes?

    • Red Stuffing Tomato Information.

    • Craig LeHoullier Information Page.

    • "Brandywine and Company: What We Know and What We Don’t (One Person’s Opinion)" by Craig LeHoullier

    • Blossom End Rot (BER) in Tomatoes.

  • Bean Trellising

    • Row Trellising Systems

    • Swing Set Trellis

    • Build a "Bean House"

    • Using Crop Netting to Trellis Pole Beans

• Nutritional & Processing Information

  • Average Vegetable Nutritional Values

  • Favorite Recipes

• Historical Topics

  • Vegetable Historical Origins

  • A History of Victory Gardening in W.W. II-era America

    • Historically accurate VG seeds in a retro packet design.

  • Victory Horticultural Portal - A Community for Historical Research

  • Seedsman Hall of Fame - Want to know more about the people who introduced various seed varieties and built the seed industry in America?  This is a site created and sponsored by us to promote agricultural history.

  • A. W. Livingston Tomatoes - Learn about this pioneering tomato seedsman.

  • Agricultural Reference Material Links - Online books, journals and old seed catalogs.  Part of the Seedsmen.org project (see below), these historic materials are critical in seed preservation work.

  • Links to Sites Maintaining Period Specific Gardens

• Climate & Weather Topics

  • Victory Seed Company Current Weather Conditions - Check out the actual weather on our farm.  Data updates every five minutes.

    • Detailed Recent Weather Data

    • Satellite Imagery Page

    • Selected Weather Related Links

    • Selected Space & Environmental Related Links

    • The Moon In Lore and Science

    • Weather Calculator / Unit Conversion Page

    • Oregon Travel & Web Cam Links

    • Weather System Specifications Page

      • Rain Gauge Accuracy Modification Project

  • Victory Field & Weather Camera - Current view of the field.

    • Camera System Specifications Page

• Miscellaneous Topics

  • Scoville Units Explained

  • Unit of Measurement Conversion Tools

  • General Informational Links

  • Victory Garden Site Award Winners