SWEETGRASS
Organically grown plants and dried bulk leaves
(Hierochlöe odorata) also called Vanilla grass, Bison grass, and zubrowka.
Redwood City Seed Company, Box 361, Redwood City, CA 94064.
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TOLL FREE from USA
(877) 205-9184 or FAX (650) 325-4056.
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Text and images copyright © 1992, 2000, 2003 - 2013 by Sue & Craig Dremann,
a 51% woman-owned business, established in 1972.


Sweetgass plantsWe offer two kinds of live plants, the Regular (left) and the Supershamanistic™ (right), June growing in 2-3/4" pots. The Supershamanistic™ is a more robust plant, growing three times faster, and looks like it is exploding out of the pot. We can get 3-5 cuts a year from our Supershamanistic™ plants, but only one or two cuts from the Regular

Our Supershamanistic™ strain grows so fast--when you cut it in the morning, you can see it regrowing by noon.

No pesticides, sprays, or chemical fertilizers are used on our plants.

All of our plants are guaranteed to arrive alive and thrive!


Ordering
your sweetgrass plants ,
maps show suggested ship dates for your state in green:

2013 Ship dates - Order for any of these dates now-->
June 3, June 10, June 17, July 8, July 22 or August 5.

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Please place your order for a particular ship-date,
at least by the Friday before each ship-date, by 4 PM California Time.



ORDERING: We dig and ship plants at least once a month, year around, and by looking at the ship-date maps, you can order the plants for the right month for your area.

All plants are shipped via the Post Office, so if you have a Post Office Box, that address is preferred.

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PRICES
(Effective June 18, 2012) --->>>
A free dried sweetgrass sample sent, when you order any plants.

--REGULAR strain sweetgrass plants - $10 each, 3/$20, 6/$32, 10/$50, 15/$75, 20/$95. Prices include Priority mail via the post office. If you want Express mail delivery, please add the prices below.

--SUPERSHAMANISTIC ™ sweetgrass plants - $12 each, 3/$24, 6/$36, 10/$55, 15/$80, 20/$100, 30/$145, 40/$195, 60/$295, 80/$395, 100/$495. Prices include Priority mail via the post office. Plants grow about 3-5 times faster than the regular strain. The dramatic increased speed of growth, is a natural genetic difference in grasses called "polyploidy" which is not caused by fertilizers. This plant is not a hybrid or a GMO or man-made, and is the fastest-growing natural strain in North America, discovered growing in our beds many years ago. There is no difference in the scent of either strain. If you want Express mail delivery, please add prices below.

When established and fertilized monthly, the Supershamanistic™ strain can produce at least 40,000 braids per acre per year.

Optional EXPRESS MAIL DELIVERY. Suggested summer-shipping, especially Texas, the South and the Southwest.---Express mail is also suggested if you live more than 100 miles from a major airport or from a major metropolitan area. Shipment via Express Mail, please add the following: $25 for the first plant, and $1 for each additional plant.

DRIED ORGANIC-GROWN LOOSE LEAVES.

---LONG LEAVES. Length is usually about 24 inches or more, and wrapped in 1/2 pound bundles, about 3 inches in diameter. About 40 braids worth per pound. We are taking orders now for June 2013 cutting and drying productions.
PRICE: 1/2 pound $30, One pound $45. Prices include priority mail via the post office to USA, Canada and Mexico. Overseas customers, please ask for the shipping costs.

---SHORT LEAVES. Length is usually about 16-22 inches, and wrapped in 1/2 pound bundles, about 3 inches in diameter. About 40 braids worth per pound.
PRICE: 1/2 pound $25, One pound $40. Prices include priority mail via the post office to USA, Canada and Mexico. Overseas customers, please ask for the shipping costs.

---BASKET LEAVES. Wrapped in 1/2 pound bundles, 16-24 inches long. Inexpensive material to practice sweetgrass baskets. Low scent, not useful for making braids or bundles. PRICE: One pound $35. Prices include priority mail via the post office to USA, Canada and Mexico. Overseas customers, please ask for the shipping costs .

Sweetgrass sample
Call toll free (877) 205-9184 and ask for a free sample of dried sweetgrass and a catalog. Also, a free dried sweetgrass sample is sent when you order any plants.




California customers ordering either plants or dried leaves, please add
7-1/4% sales tax if you live outside San Mateo Co., or 8-1/4% if you live within San Mateo County.




WHEN PLANTS ARRIVE -- If you don't have time to plant them immediately, they can survive in their plastic bags for a few days, as long as the roots are kept moist and they get some light, but never any direct sunlight.

fish fertilizer

When plants first arrive, always soak the roots in a bowl of water for at least one minute. You can also mix up one cup liquid fish fertilizer with a gallon of water, and soak roots for 15 minutes in the liquid fish solution before planting.

When we ship the plants to you, their roots are not shipped bare-naked, and have moist potting soil protecting them, which allows plants to start growing quickly once you plant them.

Before planting in pots, add a Tablespoon of bone meal and blood meal and mix them into the potting soil, before you plant the plants.

After planting, fertilize the plants with liquid fish fertilizer, one cup diluted in a gallon watering can. Also add a hand-full of bone meal and blood meal to each plant. Then sprinkle the surface with a little more water, to wash the fertilizers deeper into the soil, so it is not on the surface.

You will repeat those three fertilizers each month in the growing season--a hand-full of bone meal, blood meal worked into the top inch of soil around each plant, and one cup of liquid fish diluted in a gallon of water.

If you are ordering 20 or fewer plants for delivery in spring or summer, it is best to plant each plug into 8" diameter plastic pots in potting soil, keeping them outside in the shade for a few days, and then introduce them to morning sun and then as much afternoon sun as they can take.

DO NOT USE potting soil that contains polymer crystals, and do not add any polymer crystals to the potting soil, as it keep the soil too moist. The potting soils with polymer crystaks will mention something on the bag about "moisture control" or "watersorb". DO NOT USE THIS TYPE OF POTTING SOIL.

When growing in pots, always use a commercial potting soil, and you can mix in some Perlite to add better drainage, up to 30% perlite. Do not use vermiculite. Also, do not use Kellogg Brand potting soil.

Also for plants in containers, never use soil dug out of the garden, or Michigan swamp mud.

Also, do not use Miracle Gro® brand bone meal, but any other brand of bone meal is OK. You can find the other brands at ACE hardware stores like "High Yield" or they can special order it for you.

Planting sweetgrass in the pots first, allow you to easily move them around the garden, until you find the perfect sun/shade conditions that the plants like best.

Let them grow for at least month in the pots before you plant them out into the garden. In the North, they will want sun all day long. In the Southwest, Deep South and Southern California, they will absolutely need some afternoon shade.

Click here to see sweetgrass growing month-by-month, and the plant in a few months will fill the 8" pot. When they've grown to a large size, you can plant them out into your garden, spacing each about one foot apart. Sweetgrass is very fast-growing in the summer.

Plants ordered in autumn can be directly planted into the garden---just make sure to put them in an area that is completely free of other grasses, and carefully mark each spot where you plant your plants, so you can find them next spring.

Plants are shipped via the post office in cardboard boxes, priority mail, or express mail.

Pictures of our plants successfully growing in home gardens, click on these links here= sweetstates.html and sweetstates2.html

California Nursery Stock License 1323.001, a family-owned business established in 1972.



Our complete
SWEETGRASS GROWING INFORMATION can be viewed here.

This web site contains the most detailed information ever compiled about sweetgrass, over 11,000 words and when printed out is 49 pages long.


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Redwood City Seed Company, Box 361, Redwood City, CA 94064.
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Master Visa order toll-free (877) 205-9184
or FAX (650) 325-4056.
Outside of the USA call 650-325-7333

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