Sea Spring Seeds

General information

Sea Spring Seeds is a vegetable seed company run by gardeners for gardeners. It is based at Sea Spring Farm, a specialist nursery overlooking the English Channel in West Dorset. The business is owned and managed by us, Michael and Joy Michaud, along side our other enterprises: Sea Spring Plants (selling chilli plug plants), Peppers by Post (growing and selling fresh chillies through the post) and Sea Spring Photos (a photo library for vegetable growing).

After working for decades in agriculture and horticulture, we started our own business in 1989, first growing vegetables for local shops and restaurants. We gradually became interested in chillies, eventually establishing Peppers by Post, in 1994 – Britain's first company growing and selling fresh chillies through the post.

We then began hunting for new chillies in immigrant shops and allotments, where we found naga morich, a Bangladeshi landrace from which we developed the Dorset Naga, one of the hottest chillies in the world (see http://www.dorsetnaga.com). Since then we have developed several new chilli varieties

Sea Spring seeds now sells a wide range of vegetable seeds, concentrating on selling the best varieties available.