[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.
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> 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.
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> 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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