seed catalogs arriving

[RinTinTin]

I agree that Johnny's is a good company to deal with. If you subscribe to their email newsletter, they provide a lot of really good info also. They're one of the two "big" seed companies that I deal with. The other is Territorial Seeds, which is local to me. When I first started growing here in the PNW, I had a 100sq.ft. community patch. With that little space, you NEED to buy seeds that are proven growers in the region. Besides, since they are based out of Oregon, they have MANY of Jim Baggett's varieties available...his plants all do well in this climate.

[BigdaddyJ]

Carolyn, Johhny's has never disappointed. Never. And many, many years of ordering. My favorite seed company...now, WHERE is my catalog??? :-)

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by BigdaddyJ

Carolyn, Johhny's has never disappointed. Never. And many, many years of ordering. My favorite seed company...now, WHERE is my catalog??? :-)

I Don't KNOW where your catalog is but Delaware isn't that far from me, ahem, so why not drive up and I'll let you sit in my recliner chair with MY catalog and I'll set the timer in the kitchen and I'll give you two hours max to thumb thru it.

And then I'll let you drive down to Steiningers ( takes 4.35 minutes) and bring back lunch for both of us and actually a bit more for me to freeze. So I'll have the Curried Chicken with fresh salad and for future use a couple of pints of Wild Mushroom Soup, some of Xavier's outstanding Stollen he makes and a selection of his Xmas cookies as well. Perhaps some Grasshopper pie for dessert.

Last Friday my car went into the garage for the winter and now Freda has to get the battery out and bring it in the house, so I'm going nowhere for a long time and love company, especially tomato savvy company.

But you'd better get up here today since the temps are to plunge tonight with snow showers on and off the rest of the week which does make driving dicey.

Your call.

[BigdaddyJ]

I think I read this too late Carolyn. According to the Weather Channel you NY upstaters are all buried in huge drifts! We are vacationing at Lake George next summer though. How far away are you from there? I could bring you a couple hundred tomatoes...LOL

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by BigdaddyJ

I think I read this too late Carolyn. According to the Weather Channel you NY upstaters are all buried in huge drifts! We are vacationing at Lake George next summer though. How far away are you from there? I could bring you a couple hundred tomatoes...LOL

No, there are no drifts here b'c there's no SNOW here where I am although some snow showers and flurries are predicted for the next few days along with plunging temps.

I'm about an hour SE of Lake George depending where you're going to be on Lake Geroge, which is a long lake, so I'm saying from the village of Lake George. Go south on rt 9 from the village, make a left hand turn on rt 149 over to Granville, go south on rt 22 at the light until you come to my village, take a left hand turn at the only light to 153 towards VT, go 1.6 miles, well, I'd finish that but if you have the time I'd love to have you stop by.

Last summer Mike Dunton who owns Victory Seeds stopped by with his family b'c after Mike attended a conference on seed packaging at the GEneva, NY USDA station in the western part of the state, they drove East doing an historical tour of many of the Forts, the Saratoga Battlefield, then Fort Henry in Lake George, then Fort Ticonderoga then drove south to my home/ Lots of good tomato talk as their two youngest sat politely on the sofa and just listened.



Just let me know in advance to be sure I'll be here, which I am 95% of the time in the summer and 100% of the time in the winter b'c I'm not allowed out with my walker in the winter.

[BigdaddyJ]

It would be nice to visit. We are trying to arrange with another family to vacation there at the same time this summer. They have a boat and are water skiing and tubing fanatics so the kids will have fun. I could certainly break away for a visit then...

[KLorentz]

On the subject of Johnny's their seeds fail to disappoint me. The one year I ordered a pumpkin called Wolf it did fail to produce but that was not their fault as pumpkins I got that year from other sources failed to produce.That was 2008.I would never think about passing up a chance to order from them.Good seeds great folks.


Kevin

[Mark0820]

The Fedco vegetable seed catalog arrived. I hope the Fedco tree catalog isn't too far behind.

[Tormato]

I received Comstock & Ferre, yesterday. Again, 2 copies, like its parent Baker Creek.

It's the first time I've seen hemp (not available until it is legal to plant) listed in a seed catalog.

[Dak]

I moved this year, Can someone tell me if Gurneys & Gardens Alive are still doing their $25 off? I want to order a heat mat.

[Stepheninky]

I just got my Johnny's catalog Friday so my guess is they are still in the process of getting them all out.

[Mark0820]

TGS arrived today.

[KLorentz]

Fungi Perfecti came today.


Kevin

[Linda10]

I finally received two...Seed Savers and Tomato Growers.

[Mark0820]

Three more arrived today: RH Shumway's, Jung Seeds and Gurney's. It seems like the seed catalogs are arriving later this year.