Artisan Seeds launches - Page 5

Fred Hempel · December 13, 2012

Pink and Purple Bumble Bee are now both available as grafted plants (for all of you warm-weather folks with disease issues...)

http://baianicchia.blogspot.com/2012...-grafting.html

Fred Hempel · December 14, 2012

Our Artisan Seeds website is not up yet. We missed our Dec 1 target, in part because we had two websites to build this winter.

Our first one is now up, and the Artisan Seeds website should follow in the next week or so. Sorry for the delays.

Tania · December 15, 2012

Very nice - I love tea! Looking forward to seeing the other website.

Fred Hempel · December 23, 2012

If you are in the Bay Area: Free Pink Bumble Bee cherry tomato seeds and Farm-Crafted tea samples at our Farm Open Houses in January

Fred Hempel · December 25, 2012

Sales of Artisan Seeds from our farm blog are now closed.

However, we just finished up our new website, and it will be turned on shortly at www.growartisan.com

Boutique Tomatoes · December 28, 2012

Just a quick note about Fred's Grey Dog Teas. My daughter got me some for Christmas and I am impressed. They're quite complex (I can't pick out all of the herb components in the Chili Mint Herb Tea) and to me the pepper characteristics are that of a spicy frying type, they're not really "hot" at all.

And for my house, the fact that they have peppers in them make sure that they're all mine.

A very unique product.

Fred Hempel · January 2, 2013

Latest update on growartisan.com (our website and online store):

The site should be up today or tomorrow. We are finalizing things with PayPal, and the process is almost finished. The period between Christmas and New Years was not the best time to do business...

Fred Hempel · January 5, 2013

Our website is now visible at growartisan.com

We can not take orders just yet, but you can now see what is available.

You can now also register for an account. I will be emailing everyone who registers, to inform them when the site is ready to take orders (within hours or days).

It is crazy how long this has taken.

Granite26 · January 5, 2013

Do you have any plans to release any other tomatoes this season other than whats listed so far? ...I already ordered those

Really anxious to grow out the bumble bee's
Thanks...keep up the good work!

Love to get some tiger's!

Farmette · January 5, 2013

I'm looking for the Purple Bumblebee...hope that will be available too.

habitat_gardener · January 5, 2013

Quote:

Originally Posted by Farmette

I'm looking for the Purple Bumblebee...hope that will be available too.

It's not shown on the Home page, but it turns up when you click the Products tab at the top of the page.

Granite26 · January 5, 2013

Purple Bumblebee shows up on the site so you should be in luck as soon as ordering goes "live"

Fred Hempel · January 5, 2013

Hi Granite,

We only have 3 tomato varieties to sell this year. We will have a few more next year.

We are using our own website to highlight new releases, and other exceptional rare varieties. We will never have large numbers of tomatoes, and our overlap with other sites will be minimal.

For details on what we are doing, please see the "about us" section (visible when you mouse over "contact us" -- at www.growartisan.com

Some of our tomatoes are available elsewhere (Blush and Maglia Rosa)

Tomatoes available at our site (anytime now): Purple Bumble Bee, Pink Bumble Bee, Captain Lucky

Tomatoes available in the coming fall at our site: Sunrise Bumble Bee, Spike (our "black zebra"), Green Tiger, Pink Tiger, Sunol (an orange paste) and likely a couple more.

nativeplanter · January 5, 2013

Hi Fred,
Captain Lucky sounds really interesting, and I plan on ordering it when your site goes live. Have you figured out how many days to maturity it is? Or even early vs late? Season length doesn't matter too much for my location; I'm just curious when one would expect fruit.

(Oh, why does the tomato "to try" list keep getting longer???)

Fred Hempel · January 5, 2013

I need to look at my notes, and add approximate dates to first ripe fruit, after transplant.

Thanks for the suggestion.

December 15, 2012	#3
Tania Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Anmore, BC, Canada Posts: 3,970	Very nice - I love tea! Looking forward to seeing the other website. __________________ Tatiana's TOMATObase

January 5, 2013	#9
Granite26 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Western WI Posts: 359	Do you have any plans to release any other tomatoes this season other than whats listed so far? ...I already ordered those Really anxious to grow out the bumble bee's Thanks...keep up the good work! Love to get some tiger's! Last edited by Granite26; January 5, 2013 at 02:15 PM.

January 5, 2013	#12
Granite26 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Western WI Posts: 359	Purple Bumblebee shows up on the site so you should be in luck as soon as ordering goes "live" __________________ Pleasant Valley Produce see us on Facebook!

December 13, 2012	#1
Fred Hempel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sunol, CA Posts: 2,723	Pink and Purple Bumble Bee are now both available as grafted plants (for all of you warm-weather folks with disease issues...) http://baianicchia.blogspot.com/2012...-grafting.html

December 14, 2012	#2
Fred Hempel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sunol, CA Posts: 2,723	Our Artisan Seeds website is not up yet. We missed our Dec 1 target, in part because we had two websites to build this winter. Our first one is now up, and the Artisan Seeds website should follow in the next week or so. Sorry for the delays.

December 23, 2012	#4
Fred Hempel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sunol, CA Posts: 2,723	If you are in the Bay Area: Free Pink Bumble Bee cherry tomato seeds and Farm-Crafted tea samples at our Farm Open Houses in January

December 25, 2012	#5
Fred Hempel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sunol, CA Posts: 2,723	Sales of Artisan Seeds from our farm blog are now closed. However, we just finished up our new website, and it will be turned on shortly at www.growartisan.com

December 28, 2012	#6
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	Just a quick note about Fred's Grey Dog Teas. My daughter got me some for Christmas and I am impressed. They're quite complex (I can't pick out all of the herb components in the Chili Mint Herb Tea) and to me the pepper characteristics are that of a spicy frying type, they're not really "hot" at all. And for my house, the fact that they have peppers in them make sure that they're all mine. A very unique product.

January 2, 2013	#7
Fred Hempel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sunol, CA Posts: 2,723	Latest update on growartisan.com (our website and online store): The site should be up today or tomorrow. We are finalizing things with PayPal, and the process is almost finished. The period between Christmas and New Years was not the best time to do business...

January 5, 2013	#10
Farmette Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 985	I'm looking for the Purple Bumblebee...hope that will be available too.

January 5, 2013	#14
nativeplanter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Hampton, VA Posts: 86	Hi Fred, Captain Lucky sounds really interesting, and I plan on ordering it when your site goes live. Have you figured out how many days to maturity it is? Or even early vs late? Season length doesn't matter too much for my location; I'm just curious when one would expect fruit. (Oh, why does the tomato "to try" list keep getting longer???)