Lake Valley Seed: Now That’s Italian!

Does winter have you longing for a trip to the Mediterranean? If you can’t afford to travel to Italy, here’s the next best thing.

I was delighted to learn there ’s another seed company located just a few miles away from me in Boulder , Colo. ( BBB Seed Companyis also nearby.)Lake Valley Seedgot in touch to usher in its product to me and I ’m so glad they did . Not only did I learn about the 600 miscellany of herbaceous plant , flower , and veggie seeds the company carries , but I found out about its product line of Pagano seeds .

Lake Valley is the sole importer of more than 70 regional Mediterranean sort of vegetable and herbaceous plant seed from Pagano Seed , one of the oldest source companies in Italy .

Constantino Pagano , an accountant and lieutenant in the Italian army , start the company in 1925 in Scafati , Italy . After his death in 1930 , Almerico Pagano , an agronomist , and his sidekick continued the workplace Constantino start out . The company continues to raise and market a all-encompassing compass of seeded player for national and international markets .

The Pagano line includes vegetables like Ciliegino Pomodoro tomato , Broccoli Romanesco S. Giuseppe , Cicoria Spadona Da Taglio ( cutting Cichorium intybus ) , Melanzana ( eggplant ) Violet Napoli , Zucchino Bianco di Trieste ( lily-white squash ) , and many other vegetables that are an of import part of a Mediterranean diet .

A courteous excerpt of Italian herb is also offer , include Dente di Leone ( dandelion greens ) .

Lake Valley ’s germ lines are useable on itswebsiteand at main nurseries , garden centers , and hardware computer memory .

The attractive oversized seed package ( 5 ” x 8 ” ) discover themselves from traditional American seed packets in several way . The mailboat feature full - coloring material photographs of the vegetable or herbaceous plant printed on glossy paper and each packet has detail planting pedagogy in three languages — Italian , English and Spanish .

While holding one of these packets , it was easy for me to reckon standing in an Italian garden with the Mediterranean Sunday warming my back .

I ca n’t hold back to originate planting .

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