Starting to get gardening catalogs already

[wifezilla]

IT'S LIKE TORTURE!!!

Cruel cruel cruel

 

[4grandbabies]

I have been getting them also, my daughter is laughing at me, she is going nuts doing Christmas stuff, and I cant keep my nose out of the seed catalogs.
Actually I made an order which included coffee plant, lemon tree, gardenia plant, and more, but I wont get any of them until April.. aarrgg!!

 

[journey11]

if I didn't get them early, I might never have time to look through them all!

 

[HiDelight]

Hi there Wife!
they are coming in droves ...because I am driven to have every good one anyone mentions along with all the ones I have been getting for years ..I still can not use an online catalog and yearn for the paper ones because I love filling out the order form ...
so yes
I have a few things I want to order but I will have to sell some of my mothers heirloom jewelry first

does anyone besides me fill pages of the order forms and then shred them ...until the time you finally figure out a sane rational and really essential order?

we should turn this into a seed 12 step thread!

I do love filling out order forms for seeds with a paper and pen while I look at the pictures!!! it is not the same online!

 

[Greenthumb18]

Yep it is quite exciting to get all the gardening catalogs in the mail . I do glance at the catalogs when they first start coming in. I usually just collect them all while they come in and after Christmas and New Year's i start thinking and planning what i would like to order.
I prefer filling out orders with paper and pen also, theirs a different feeling then doing the order online i can't explain it.
When the weather's cold out theirs nothing better than looking through garden catalogs with a nice cup of tea or coffee.

 

[obsessed]

I finally got my Bakers Creek yesterday! Unfortunately, I wont be ordering anytime soon. Seeing as how I ordered stuff last week on the internet from them for me as I was buying presents for others. but there seeds to be some seeds I missed now that I have the catlogue in my hands......

 

[wifezilla]

After calming down and wiping the drool off my face, I came up an affordable and realistic Baker Creek order...

Ground Cherries
Red Wonder Wild Strawberries
Collective Farm Woman melon
Black Cherry Tomato
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon

I am good to go on everything else. Anyone tried any of these yet?

 

[obsessed]

I have some Black Cherries that I got from Wintersown. I will try them this year. I ended up buying mostly tomaotes but I don't remember which. I one one of each color except red.

 

[HiDelight]

onions so far species undetermined

 

[digitS']

After calming down and wiping the drool off my face, I came up an affordable and realistic Baker Creek order...

Ground Cherries
Red Wonder Wild Strawberries
Collective Farm Woman melon
Black Cherry Tomato
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon

I am good to go on everything else. Anyone tried any of these yet?

I haven't grown any one of those but . . .

I've started French Alpine strawberries from seed in the greenhouse and they were easy-peasy. Be advised that they can be "invasive" - who'd have thunk? I've got lots of tiny strawberry plants in 1 corner of my lawn now.


Collective Farm Woman melons have been recommended to me. I'm not sure what that means for others.

Black Cherry tomatoes get a lot of good press. . . not brown cherry or any other black (small b) cherry. All those designated as "Black Cherry" may not be the same. Trust that Baker Creek has the right one.

Blacktail Mountain watermelon came from a seed company owner who once lived on Blacktail Mountain not too far from where I once lived and live now, actually. I've long wondered about that name - there are no blacktail deer within hundreds of miles that I know anything about.

The seed company guy left after a few years but his time there is reflected also in his offering of Kootenai and other tomato varieties. They were Univ. of Idaho releases that he became familiar with 30 or 40 years ago (I grew some of those then, too .) But, I guess, Blacktail Mnt melons were the result of his efforts. I really should try them - Sugar Babies don't have a very strong hold on me.

Steve