We have chosen not to publish a paper catalog for ecological reasons, however you will find our entire varietal range available on our site directly, or on site in our physical store.

Yes indeed, unless otherwise stated, our seeds are all certified organic by Ecocert France. Our AB certificate is available on request. The published invoices as well as our seed packets carry the French and European AB logo as well as the mention FR-BIO-01.

Our seeds are packaged in kraft paper bags, a material ensuring very good seed conservation. The kraft paper we use comes from renewable resources and also has the advantage of being perfectly biodegradable and recyclable.

Our sachets contain different quantities of seeds depending on the variety, sometimes expressed in number of seeds, and sometimes in grams, you will find this information on our seed sachets in the “capacity” paragraph, and of course the packaging is also clearly specified on our site.

Alsagarden encourages and supports as much as possible the local production of reproducible and organic seeds. Thus, nearly 85% of our seeds are produced by our network of small professional French growers-multipliers. In order to expand our offer, around 15% of the varieties we offer are also produced in organic or biodynamic agriculture, with our German and Swiss neighbours.

Generally the shelf life of our seeds is 2, 3 or 4 years depending on the variety. We affix rather short dates as “expiration dates” on the bags, but this absolutely does not mean that the seeds will no longer germinate after the date indicated, but from this date the germination rate is likely to decrease gradually. If you wish to keep your seeds for several years, we invite you to store them in a cool (15°C maximum), dry (60% maximum humidity) and dark place. Finally, if you want to keep them for the long term, we advise you to store them in the freezer, so they will keep their germination power for many years.

We work in tight flow with relatively low storage and therefore offer for sale fresh seeds from the last harvest, or from the previous year at most. We carry out germination tests on our seed lots regularly to ensure an optimal germination rate for our customers and we are also checked by several organizations each season on this point. However, we are not able to provide a germination guarantee, since you will understand that beyond the quality of the seeds, the success or failure of a sowing depends on very many factors that it is impossible to check for us (sowing method, nature of the substrate, sowing date, depth, watering, exposure, temperature, etc.). However, if you have a concern about the germination rate, we invite you to contact us by e-mail (contact@alsagarden.com) indicating the batch number written on the bag as well as your surname/first name and order reference. . We will of course carry out additional tests and we will keep you informed.

At Alsagarden, we have chosen to offer you only peasant varieties called “populations”, ie reproducible as they are by you, and therefore free of rights. Our desire is to (re)live the vegetable diversity as we found it in the old catalogs of seed suppliers. You will therefore not find an F1 hybrid variety with us, and obviously no GMO varieties!

We offer peasant seeds produced on a small scale, these are sometimes rare varieties produced in “confidential” quantities, so it happens that we have references out of stock for a good part of the season. We invite you to subscribe to availability alerts via the product sheets in order to be notified automatically when restocking.