Looking for seeds?
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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Onion - Varieties Sold in Canada
Ailsa Craig
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Heritage Harvest Seed,
Laughing Swan Farm,
Le potager ornemental de Catherine,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Rainbow Seeds,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
T & T Seeds Ltd.,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed Altai
Amish Bottle
Apache Scallion
Australian Brown
Barletta Pearl
Bennie's Red
Bianca di Maggio, (a Cipollini)
Blue Chives (Allium nutans)
Blush
Blush Pink
Borettana Red (type of Cipollini)
Borettana White
Borettana Yellow (type of Cipollini)
Bunching
Cabernet
Calibra
Camelot Shallot
Candy
Cartier
Catskill
Chives
A'bunadh Seeds,
Annapolis Seeds,
Berton Seeds,
Bird and Bee,
Cochrane Family Seeds,
Eagle Ridge Seeds,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Eternal Seed,
Full Circle Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Harmonic Herbs,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Incredible Seed Company,
Jardin des Vie-la-joie,
La ferme coopérative Tourne-Sol,
La Societe des plantes,
Laughing Swan Farm,
Le Jardin de Julie,
Le potager ornemental de Catherine,
Les Jardins de l'Écoumène,
Les Jardins du Grand-Portage,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
Manhattan Farms,
Matchbox Garden and Seed Co.,
McKenzie Seed Co. Ltd,
Metchosin Farm Seeds,
Mountain Grove Seed Company,
Mycoflor,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Rainbow Seeds,
Ravensong Seeds,
Richters Herbs,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Salt Spring Seeds,
Solana Seeds,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
Sunshine Farm,
Superior Seed Producers,
Terra Edibles,
Terre Promise,
The Seed Company by E.W. Gaze,
Urban Harvest,
Vesey's Seeds Ltd.,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed,
William Dam Seeds,
Yonder Hill Farm Chives, Garlic
A'bunadh Seeds,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Florabunda Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
Incredible Seed Company,
Jardin des Vie-la-joie,
La Societe des plantes,
Le potager ornemental de Catherine,
Les Jardins de l'Écoumène,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
Manhattan Farms,
McKenzie Seed Co. Ltd,
Mountain Grove Seed Company,
Mumm's Sprouting Seeds,
Mycoflor,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Rainbow Seeds,
Ravensong Seeds,
Richters Herbs,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Solana Seeds,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
T & T Seeds Ltd.,
Terra Edibles,
The Seed Company by E.W. Gaze,
Urban Harvest,
W.H.Perron,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Wildrose Heritage Seed,
William Dam Seeds,
Yonder Hill Farm Chives, Garlic, Carolina
Chives, Garlic, Dah Ye
Chives, Garlic, Tai Jiu
Chives, Garlic. Lion's Mane
Chives, Giant
Chives, Grolau
Chives, Improved Nelly
Chives, Nelly
Chives, Nira
Chives, Polyvit
Chives, White Welsh
Cipollini, Yellow
Cortland
Crimson Forest
Crystal Wax / White Pearl
Cuisse de Poulet du Poitou
Dakota Tears
Dawson
Deep Purple Bunching
Delgado
Dutch
Early Yellow Globe
Ed's Red Shallot
Egyptian / Walking
Eiffel Scallion
Evergreen Bunching Onion, Ishikura
Evergreen Bunching Onion, Red Beard
Evergreen White Bunching / Japanese Bunching Onion / Welsh Onion / Multiplier Onion / Scallion / He she Ko
A'bunadh Seeds,
Annapolis Seeds,
Brother Nature Organic Seeds,
Eagle Ridge Seeds,
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Eternal Seed,
Florabunda Seeds,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Halifax Seed Company Inc.,
Harmonic Herbs,
Hope Seeds and Perennials,
Incredible Seed Company,
La ferme coopérative Tourne-Sol,
Laughing Swan Farm,
Le potager ornemental de Catherine,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
Matchbox Garden and Seed Co.,
McKenzie Seed Co. Ltd,
Mycoflor,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Prairie Garden Seeds,
Richters Herbs,
Solana Seeds,
Sunshine Farm,
T & T Seeds Ltd.,
The Seed Company by E.W. Gaze,
Urban Harvest,
West Coast Seeds Ltd.,
Yonder Hill Farm Evergreen White Nebuka
Exhibition
Expression
Feast
Flagpole Scallion
Fortress
Fortress Pontiac
Franz Bunching
Frontier
Gallop
Genesis
Globo
Golden Globe
Great Western
Green Banner
Green Parade
Hardy White Bunching
Highlander
Home Run
Ippon Negi
Ishikura Improved
Jaune Paille des Vertus
Kelsae Sweet Giant
LaSalle
Lisson
Long White Tokyo
Marenge
Matador
Meadow Garlic
Milestone
Monastrell
Montclair
Mountaineer
Multiplier Onion / Potato Onion
New York Early
Newburg
Nodding
Norstar
Oloroso
Oneida
Parade
Parma Gold
Patate
Patterson
Piata di Bergamo
Pocono
Prince
Quebec Special
Ramrod
Red Baron
Red Bassano
Red Beauty
Red Brunswick
Red Bull
Red Burgundy
Red Canada #1
Red Carpet
Red Creole (Pearl)
Red Emperor
Red Geneva Cipollini
Red Globe
Red Karmen
Red Label
Red Marble
Red Nugent
Red of Florence
Red Purple Bunching
Red Spring
Red Tropeana Lunga
Red Welsh
Red Wethersfield
Red Wing
Red Zeppelin
Ridgline
Riverside Sweet Spanish
Rossa d'Inverno Rubino
Rossa di Milano
Rossa Lunga di Firenze
Rubillion
Ruby Ring
Saddleback
Scallions, Kincho
Shallot, Ambition
Shallot, Banana
Shallot, Camelot
Shallot, Conservor
Shallot, Dutch
Shallot, French
Shallot, French, Val-Au-Vents
Shallot, Frog's Leg
Shallot, Picador
Shallot, Sainte - Anne
Shallot, Zebrune
Sherman
Sierra Blanca
Simiane / Pink Banana Shallot
Southport Red Globe
Southport White Globe
Spanish
Spanish Medallion
Spanish, Yellow
Sperling Toga
Sturon
Stuttgarter
Stuttgarter Riesen
Summer Isle
Super Star
SV4643NT
Sweet Spanish Utah
Sweet Spanish White
Sweet Spanish, Early
Sweet White Wing
Talon
Tokyo Long White
Trailblazer
Traverse
Trekker
Tropeana Lunga
Valencia
Vision
Walla Walla
Early's Farm & Garden Centre Inc.,
Eternal Seed,
Greta's Organic Gardens,
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds,
La ferme coopérative Tourne-Sol,
Laughing Swan Farm,
Lindenberg Seeds Ltd.,
McKenzie Seed Co. Ltd,
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company),
Rainbow Seeds,
Richters Herbs,
Sage Garden Herbs,
Stokes Seeds Ltd,
The Seed Company by E.W. Gaze,
West Coast Seeds Ltd. Wethersfield Red Storage
White Canada # 1
White Cloud
White Gem
White Lisbon Bunching
White Sweet Spanish
White Wing
Yellow Canada #1
Yellow Globe Danvers
Yellow of Parma
Yellow Sweet Spanish Utah
Zoey