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Post by brownrexx on Nov 29, 2018 9:36:41 GMT -5
When do you start thinking about ordering seeds for the upcoming gardening season?
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Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 29, 2018 10:06:05 GMT -5
I've already started!
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Post by september on Nov 29, 2018 10:26:02 GMT -5
Not until after Christmas, too much else going on. And have to wait for all the print catalogs to come for browsing, even though I order online.
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Post by spike on Nov 29, 2018 10:28:35 GMT -5
Since I lost everything this past gardening season due to way to much rain and family issues, I have to start over. So yes I have all ready ordered a few things.
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Post by horsea on Nov 29, 2018 10:37:11 GMT -5
Me, too. Including the beautiful, oddball melon called Kajari.
Here it is, November 29th on the freezing cold prairies, and I'm thinking about growing melon. Somebody, have me committed for my own good, will you.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Nov 29, 2018 11:14:53 GMT -5
I already ordered.
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Post by meandtk on Nov 29, 2018 12:03:51 GMT -5
I never stop thinking about it, and am often adding to my stash. "Hi, I'm Jason, and I'm a seedaholic."
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Post by paulf on Nov 29, 2018 12:57:13 GMT -5
As the catalogs keep rolling in my wife has begun making a list for her raised beds. My tomatoes and peppers are in inventory and I will not be ordering anything this year until Tania reopens her seed business again. Remy and Glenn will be getting some business and when I start seeing all the good stuff everybody says is out of this world...AARRGH, you guys are enablers for addicts.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 29, 2018 13:06:45 GMT -5
I already ordered. And I am expecting some seeds from a trade. So I'm set...not that that will stop me from ordering more if something really catches my fancy.
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Post by brownrexx on Nov 29, 2018 13:42:18 GMT -5
I don't really start thinking about it until I make up my garden diagram in about February but I don't usually order from seed catalogs. I have that fabulous local store that sells their own seeds as well as many that you guys talk about like Renees, Johnny's, High Mowing and a few more. I just go there and shop. 20160210_121235 by Brownrexx, on Flickr 20160303_134746 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by octave1 on Nov 29, 2018 14:18:46 GMT -5
I buy seeds as soon as they go on sale at the end of the season. I am always behind in varieties.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Nov 29, 2018 17:26:53 GMT -5
I never stop thinking about it, and am often adding to my stash. "Hi, I'm Jason, and I'm a seedaholic." A million times this! Seeds don't really go bad. Well, I find that allium seeds tend to not keep well, but other than that, I'm always gathering. If the zombie apocolypse hit tomorrow, I'd be good for years.
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Post by brownrexx on Nov 29, 2018 17:37:14 GMT -5
Corn or pea seeds do not germinate well after 2 years so I replace those but a pack of squash or cucumber seeds will last me about 4 years and tomatoes even longer than that.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 29, 2018 18:24:10 GMT -5
I get so jealous whenever you show pictures of Rohrer, brownrexx! My local seed shopping is limited to big box stores since the hurricane trashed the local feed & seed place. (I don't know if the feed & seed place will reopen or not; they haven't started repairs, which isn't uncommon. But the roof isn't tarped, which is a very bad sign.)
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Post by coppice on Nov 29, 2018 18:58:17 GMT -5
Most, most I say of my 2018 tree seeds are in hand. I will start ordering 2019 tree and forest seed in January. and the bare-root seedlings I will not get the chance to start from seed.
If you find yourself in Athens OH, visit 'Companion Plants' their seed room is without herbal rival.
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Post by brownrexx on Nov 29, 2018 18:58:50 GMT -5
Yes I am very fortunate to have this store within 15 miles of my house. I go there in the spring and spend about 2 hours browsing and picking out seeds, planting supplies and seed potatoes. This place has so much great stuff that they even have small shopping carts now.
It is like walking around inside of a seed catalog.
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Post by paquebot on Nov 29, 2018 21:41:35 GMT -5
Haven't ordered from a catalog in years. Eight blocks away I can walk into a catalog. Anything available in the Jung's catalog is available at their garden centers. And no shipping charges!
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 30, 2018 9:16:06 GMT -5
If I lived close to either Jung's or Rohrer's, I'd have to start having my mail forwarded there.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Nov 30, 2018 10:14:13 GMT -5
If I lived close to either Jung's or Rohrer's, I'd have to start having my mail forwarded there. DD's chosen college is in a city with a Jung's. I have to drive right past it every time I drive to campus from here.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 30, 2018 16:32:12 GMT -5
I just received my first order - the one from Pinetree. That was last Friday when I placed the order - I remember because they had something going, where a percentage of every order placed on that day went to a charity, so I hurried up and placed it on Friday.
I wish that I had a decent seed store around here. Just the usual stuff in HD and Lowe's. An herb farm down in Frabklinville (not real close) has a lot of Renee's seeds, and another company's seeds, which I don't remember, since they were all flowers!
As for how long seeds last, I have discovered, from all of those Asian brassicas I have grown, that after 3 years, while they will germinate, they are much slower growing than the seedlings from the younger seeds in the tray. So after 3 or 4 years, I throw those kinds of seeds out, maybe going the extra year, if I'm not making an order that year from the companies that I would get them from. And I try to share them, as many of those seed packs have hundreds of seeds - far more than I can use in 3 years!
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Post by octave1 on Dec 1, 2018 9:39:26 GMT -5
Speaking of seeds longevity, I was always told (and believed) that parsley takes forever to germinate. Well that is true, I found out, because the seed is old. When I collected seeds from a parsley plant and immediately sowed them in pots, they were up in just a few days. I was really surprised, but that also suggested to me that store bought parsley seed must be really old.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Dec 1, 2018 10:05:46 GMT -5
octave1 That very fast germination may have been because you planted those parsley seeds immediately - the seeds had not dried out completely.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 1, 2018 12:32:41 GMT -5
I just received my first order - the one from Pinetree. That was last Friday when I placed the order - I remember because they had something going, where a percentage of every order placed on that day went to a charity, so I hurried up and placed it on Friday... Me, too! I got mine on Thursday - I was surprised to see it so fast. ...As for how long seeds last, I have discovered, from all of those Asian brassicas I have grown, that after 3 years, while they will germinate, they are much slower growing than the seedlings from the younger seeds in the tray... Okay, this explains something for me. I have seeds that I sowed outside and not only was the germination rate lower for the older Asian brassica seed (which I expected; I sowed heavily to try to counteract that), some of the seedlings from older seeds are growing reaaaaaallllly slowly. In one Earthbox, I have two different types of greens sown in the same Earthbox where one side (old seeds) has tiny, slow-growing plants and the other side (younger seed) has much bigger and more vigorous plants. I was scratching my head over that, since I knew there couldn't anything wrong with the box or all of the seedlings would be struggling. The wimpy seedlings are growing so slowly that I think could start new fresh seeds now - weeks later - and they would catch up. And conveniently I just got some new spinach and lettuce seeds in, as well as some new baby pak choy seeds.
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Post by octave1 on Dec 2, 2018 11:19:01 GMT -5
pepperhead212, well some seed fell from the plants, as seeds do, and immediately sprouted in situ; my seed, however, had been collected and sat on the kitchen counter for maybe a week because I wasn't sure where I wanted to plant parsley. By immediately I meant within a few days, without ever storing the seeds. It may be true that even after a few days the seed was not totally dry.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 3, 2018 6:47:50 GMT -5
I don't get paper catalogues anymore, just browse online. And it's been several years since I actually placed an order of more than 3 items.
But I still look!!
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Post by spacecase0 on Dec 4, 2018 13:37:50 GMT -5
normally I am excited at getting new seeds this year I have not yet recovered from gardening work from the summer my living space is filled with seeds that are drying. Need to sell the seeds I have and still have fantastic seeds that I was not able to plant last year. if I don't even look, maybe I will not know what I am missing
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