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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Seeds
  • Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:22:21 EST



> >Gene, I like Baker Creek too, although sometimes my
> germination rate on some of the seed is fairly low. I

True, I've found the same thing. But .... when Baker Creek says they are
sending you 700 seeds, you actually get something like 3,000. There are at
least 700 of those that germinate!

This isn't great if you are invested in precision seeding, but since almost
everything in my gardens is transplanted, I don't mind it at all.

In short, I've not found a better seed company.


Also let me put in a plug for Prucell Mountain Farms,

http://www.purcellmountainfarms.com/

They are not a seedsman but they sell 1 lb bags of several score of different
types of beans. They are the current year's harvest and germination is near
100%.

Also another very good company, very small, being run out of the family's
basement, is Italian Tool and Seed Co,

http://www.italianseedandtool.com/

The "Packets" are European market gardener sized affairs and are a huge
amount of seed. I came across them when I wanted to try several types of
savoy
cabbage and the pickings in other seed companies were mighty thin. I've got
a
picture of a single savoy cabbage I grew from one of the several varieties I
tried from them. It has all it's leaves and is sitting in one of those huge
zinc washtubs and you cannot see the tub. When we would pick up orders at a
coop
we participated in years ago, I'd load the back full of whatever from the
garden and sell it there if I could. That one cabbage brought $12.

(Disclaimer, all the cabbages from that particular variety were huge, but
they were nearly tsteless, I didn't grow them again. The much smaller savoys
were very good, though).


James





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