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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Carolyn,
I just sent you a PM, btw. I wonder at times, does "the bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the cheap price is forgotten!" apply to seeds? I am honestly asking, as I am just learning about this part of the world, thanks to Paul, from Brownville! Kent |
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There's no good relationship between seed price and seed quality as far as I'm concerned. Heck, I've offered over 300 tomato varieties online here and there and will be making another one here soon, and they're free for an SASE. As to those 10 cent packs of seeds in racks at the stores, I wouldn't use them b'c I don't need to but some folks have said they're just fine.
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Thanks, that is sort of what I figured, that there is no direct correlation between price and quality.
The subject of the new PM is "2d note....." Kent & Kathy, near Wahoo, Nebraska |
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Linda Drowns called today and asked me to let folks know that she's updated the Sandhill online site to indicate which tomato varieties are sold out.
She said she'd be doing the same for the other items hopefully next week.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Any idea when the next catalog will apear on the web?
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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I've been checking too! I looked back at old SHP threads and, if this year is like other years, the catalog goes out in early Jan. and the website gets updated after that, usually by early Feb. So I'm watching my mailbox for the paper copy.
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Actually Glenn called me tonight but I completely forgot to ask him when the catalog might be out. I know they've been having computer problems and I don't know if those have been fixed, but Linda his wife does all the formatting/entries for the catalog. Wait, I think he was trying to remember a date when something else happened and he said something like it was around Dec 7th or so and they were working on the catalog then.
I haven't been to the website yet to see if it's been updated but I guess maybe things are a bit behind schedule and I'd know if some of the varieties I sent him last Spring would be there, and actually that's part of what we were talking about, but not in relation to the catalog/website. As I recall I usually get my catalog in early January each year. So I can't give a date when they'll be sent out, but they will be sent out, that I know.
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I got my 2010 Sandhill catalog today. Glossy cover and back, greatly expanded and reasons why Glenn isn't going to go the color photo route with a catalog, and referred to me as a tomato guru where some of the new stuff is mentioned in the front of the catalog, which led me to e-mail him that if that was so, whatever it means, then he's the fowl guru.
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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I got my catalog today too!
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Allen, TX
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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<sigh> didnt get mine
Glenn doesnt love my any more Tom |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: seTN
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"and referred to me as a tomato guru"
Ah, but Carolyn, you truly are a "guru". My DH doesn't get too involved in my gardening world, but we both know a "National Treasure" when we see one, and you fill the bill. And there is only one other NT that we're aware of and that would be a guy in south FL , who heads several Rare Fruit Councils, knows all off the fruits by their latin names, and spreads his love and plants around to local schools and parks. Big wave to Alan, ya know who ya are ![]() But then there are so many other great people here that further the research and betterment of OP varieties, Craig, Tom, Tom, and I would like to thank the Academy....... Joan |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Oakland MS
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What a wonderful catalog I didnt get yet, LOL. Where else can I feed my mater addicition AND my rare poultry addiction all in one catalog?!?
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: California Central Valley
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...still waiting for the catalog...
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Zone 4 Lake Minnetonka, MN
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Tom nothing yet from down the road, still waiting on mine too I hope it comes soon I ordered from them last year.
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