Burpee does it again - UGH! - Page 4

BigdaddyJ · December 27, 2009

I'm not a big Burpee fan either. High prices and sleight of hand variety naming for sure. But lets not say this new one tastes awful until someone has at least grown and eaten it! Two recent Burpee varieties have become garden mainstays for me. BrandyBoy IS what they claimed it to be. Very tasty and a bit more production than the Sudduth I've been growing. And Burpee promised Porterhouse to be huge and they certainly are! Bigger than Big Zac, Delicious, Tidwell's German, NAR and bigger than any of the 'HUGE' varieties I've ever grown and I've grown a lot. So sometimes, yeah, not often, they are right on! I doubt the Tie Dye story just as you all do but lets taste one before we say it's awful...

frogsleap farm · December 27, 2009

There are pretty simple ways to protect plant breeders rights. Plant Variety Protection (PVP) is a good start. PVP protects the unauthorized seed sale of a variety, by variety name - but preserves the right for a grower to save or trade seed, and for other breeders to use the variety for research/breeding. It facilitates the breeder collecting a "royalty" on seed sold of the protected variety by authorized retailers (similar to Carol's offer). PVP protection is inexpensive enough to be practiced by private breeders who are not supported by large companies.

mtbigfish · December 28, 2009

we should start a company and call it Burpeee and take sale OP bulk Brads seed and sell packages for less that burpee - one if our first few should be :
Burpeee Tie-Dye
Pink Burpeee Tie-Dye
Burpeee Black & Brown Boar
Burpeee Tie-Dye Heart

all proceeds go to Brad to keep or use to legally nail burpee

mjc · December 28, 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by mtbigfish

all proceeds go to Brad to keep or use to legally nail burpee

Legally nail Burpee for what? Being crass? Last time I looked that wasn't against the law...but encroaching on their tradmarks/servicemarks and copyrights was.

mtbigfish · December 28, 2009

well get their sales and give it to Brad -
Brad should have Trademarked Tie-Dye and Berkeley Tie-dye as names then the tie-dye couldn't be used -

Tormato · December 30, 2009

B'rrrpee,

Take yerrr Tye-Dye, yerrr Rrr'd Lightnin', and yerrr Blac kie Pearrrl, put 'em in Davy Jone's Lockerrr, and throw away th' key, arrrgh.

Cap'n Sparrrow

**Tom Wagner** · December 31, 2009

Interesting topic, therefore I am focusing on the breeding work that may or may not have gone into the Hybrid tomato Tie Dye.

If you want to read my comments go to the CrossTalk sub forum with the topic Tomato Tie Dye Hybrid

Tom Wagner

jtharper76 · January 11, 2010

I have to say for me, as a child, the arrival of the Burpee catalog always mean my grandfathers garden was about to get started. But now after 2 years of gardening myself and having problems with the seeds from this company, when the Burpee catalog arrived 2 weeks ago I was out of firestarters for the fireplace and lets just say THANKS Burpee that fire you helped me start was WONDERFUL!

travis · January 11, 2010

What Burpee has done with regard to offering "Tye-Dye" goes way beyond the pale. And their reponse to the issue is insensitive, cavalier and reprehensible. I will never buy another seed from Burpee. I wish Brad Gates had the resources to sue the living (blankety blank) out of those no account (blankety blank blanks).

December 27, 2009	#46
BigdaddyJ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zone7 Delaware Posts: 399	I'm not a big Burpee fan either. High prices and sleight of hand variety naming for sure. But lets not say this new one tastes awful until someone has at least grown and eaten it! Two recent Burpee varieties have become garden mainstays for me. BrandyBoy IS what they claimed it to be. Very tasty and a bit more production than the Sudduth I've been growing. And Burpee promised Porterhouse to be huge and they certainly are! Bigger than Big Zac, Delicious, Tidwell's German, NAR and bigger than any of the 'HUGE' varieties I've ever grown and I've grown a lot. So sometimes, yeah, not often, they are right on! I doubt the Tie Dye story just as you all do but lets taste one before we say it's awful... __________________ Farmer at Heart

December 27, 2009	#47
frogsleap farm Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 568	There are pretty simple ways to protect plant breeders rights. Plant Variety Protection (PVP) is a good start. PVP protects the unauthorized seed sale of a variety, by variety name - but preserves the right for a grower to save or trade seed, and for other breeders to use the variety for research/breeding. It facilitates the breeder collecting a "royalty" on seed sold of the protected variety by authorized retailers (similar to Carol's offer). PVP protection is inexpensive enough to be practiced by private breeders who are not supported by large companies.

December 28, 2009	#48
mtbigfish Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Chillicothe Ohio - left Calif July 2010 Posts: 451	we should start a company and call it Burpeee and take sale OP bulk Brads seed and sell packages for less that burpee - one if our first few should be : Burpeee Tie-Dye Pink Burpeee Tie-Dye Burpeee Black & Brown Boar Burpeee Tie-Dye Heart all proceeds go to Brad to keep or use to legally nail burpee

December 30, 2009	#51
Tormato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MA Posts: 4,971	B'rrrpee, Take yerrr Tye-Dye, yerrr Rrr'd Lightnin', and yerrr Blac kie Pearrrl, put 'em in Davy Jone's Lockerrr, and throw away th' key, arrrgh. Cap'n Sparrrow

December 31, 2009	#52
Tom Wagner Crosstalk™ Forum Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 8407 18th Ave West 7-203 Everett, Washington 98204 Posts: 1,157	Interesting topic, therefore I am focusing on the breeding work that may or may not have gone into the Hybrid tomato Tie Dye. If you want to read my comments go to the CrossTalk sub forum with the topic Tomato Tie Dye Hybrid Tom Wagner

January 11, 2010	#53
jtharper76 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ponchatoula , Louisiana Posts: 99	I have to say for me, as a child, the arrival of the Burpee catalog always mean my grandfathers garden was about to get started. But now after 2 years of gardening myself and having problems with the seeds from this company, when the Burpee catalog arrived 2 weeks ago I was out of firestarters for the fireplace and lets just say THANKS Burpee that fire you helped me start was WONDERFUL!

January 11, 2010	#54
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	What Burpee has done with regard to offering "Tye-Dye" goes way beyond the pale. And their reponse to the issue is insensitive, cavalier and reprehensible. I will never buy another seed from Burpee. I wish Brad Gates had the resources to sue the living (blankety blank) out of those no account (blankety blank blanks).