[Market-farming] Fedco etc.

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Thu Jan 1 12:35:18 EST 2009


On Jan 1, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Wyatt Jones wrote:

> I don't have much experience with Fedco but I've had freinds that have 
> repeatedly had almost half the seed they ordered from Fedco turn out 
> to be the wrong ones.

That's interesting. All I can say is that I've had that happen only 
rarely, and scattered around various seed companies, not particularly 
Fedco. (The most recent case I remember offhand is supposedly-habanero 
seed from Johnny's; they did their best to make it right, gave me free 
seed of the right strain.) And I've been ordering a lot of different 
items from Fedco for years now. So it's puzzling that they had so many 
problems while I had almost none.

>  
> Another good source is Seed Savers, I've ordered from them many 
> times and only had one problem but they aren't the cheapest by any 
> means and I primarily use them for unusual Heirlooms. 
>  

Agreed on all counts. -- They have the correct strain Amish Paste 
tomato; this is maybe no longer "unusual" but the commonly found strain 
seems to have gotten crossed with something and includes a lot of 
plants that produce smaller tomatoes without the full flavor. That's 
not a problem limited to one seed company; I tried several different 
sources, and was adding it to my own seed-saving list in the hopes of 
breeding it back to the strain I remember; but have also found the 
right strain at Seed Savers.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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