[Market-farming] Fedco etc.

Diana Jancek dijaan at charter.net
Thu Jan 1 13:51:07 EST 2009


Agree about Fedco, love the group discount, the seed descriptions always 
get me for a few more things than I actually need. Another company that 
deserves a mention is Nichols Garden Nursery. Family owned for 60 years, 
never offered treated or GMO seeds, charter signer of Safe Seed Pledge 
in 1999.  nicholsgardennursery.com

Road's End Farm wrote:
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>
> On Jan 1, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Wyatt Jones wrote:
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>     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. 
>
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> 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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