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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fedco etc.
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:35:18 -0500


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

<x-tad-smaller>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.

 
<x-tad-smaller>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. </x-tad-smaller>
 

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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