SEED CATALOGs

[so lucky]

Nyboy, I have tried those dollar store seeds, and the other 10 cent packages from other places. They rarely do well for me, just a waste of time usually. Not that high priced seed always does well, sad to say.

 

[thistlebloom]

Last year I bought the cheap sunflower seeds to fluff out my more spendy packets because I knew I was going to be planting a lot for the kids garden.
I opened one of each when I got home and the difference in quality was astounding. The cheap seeds were sparse in number, small, a lot were cracked, and they had a dull look. The name brand seeds were plump and healthy looking ( I don't think I was superimposing a bias ) and there were easily 2 or 3 times as many.
So to me the cheap seeds actually cost more in terms of what the end result of a planting would be.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i agree with Thistle on this one. the 'cheap' seed packets i used to get when i was a kid through my early 20's were usually hit or miss. the only good luck i had was with radishes, some tomato varieties, summer squash & zucchini but those packets would have tons of seeds in them to make up for what would be damaged in the packets. then the packets would have fewer seeds in them over the years and the quality went down drastically. i would say around 2000 i started getting lots of seed catalogs that got me interested in other veggies that seemed to have better advantages for my area so i started trying out new things. i noticed right away the packets seemed to have more seeds & there was hardly any damaged or weed seeds.

 

[baymule]

I made an order from directgardening.com and I bought 374 flower bulbs, 4 grape vines and 2 honey berries for $135 with shipping. They threw in free, 5 snow crocus, 6 grape hyacinths, 3 windflowers and 3 tulips. I got the daffodil and tulip bulbs already and they are large and healthy. I can't wait to get them in the ground and see them bloom.

 

[Smart Red]

Oh, for the space to plant all those goodies. . . and the weather to get them in the ground. Usually difficult to impossible this time of year, but I actually could today if I had the bulbs. Instead, I think I will try to rescue the goldfish from the murky depths of the pond.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

R.H. Shumway came today. i needed a new catalog to gaze over. i haven't seen as many as i expected to come through this year.

 

[Beekissed]

I've only had one catalog and it's not one I'd ever order from...Jung. I even signed up for Pine Tree's catalog and never got one, even though I've ordered from them three years in a row.

Seed catalogs are my JCPenney's Christmas toy catalog~remember that...oh, the dreaming!!!!!..... so when I don't get any, I'm left with the internet for my garden dreaming...it's just not the same.

 

[so lucky]

I got Johnnies and Territorial (?) catalogs in the mail a few days ago. Too bad I don't need much seed.

 

[Nyboy]

Home depot had out racks of seeds and starter kits. Right next to clearance poinsettias !!!!

 

[Jared77]

That's something else! I need to get my act together here then! Another week they'll be back to pushing grub killer and pond treatments!