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Post by dld on Feb 19, 2010 6:10:19 GMT -5
What has happened to them, they used to be a great place to purchase seed from, now their prices have gotten way to salty for me!
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Post by PVP on Feb 19, 2010 16:29:23 GMT -5
They're trying to build up a money pot sufficient to buy out Monsanto, looks like.
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Post by jcm05 on Feb 20, 2010 7:13:51 GMT -5
After that Burpees Sungold debacle, i refuse to buy anything from them. Except maybe to send to bluey.
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Post by camochef on Feb 21, 2010 11:08:49 GMT -5
After that Burpees Sungold debacle, i refuse to buy anything from them. Except maybe to send to bluey. everytime a company gets bought out by someone else, it seems the quality goes downhill and the prices climb. Profits become their main concern and the love that the original owners had seems to fade into the sunset. I refuse to buy anything from burpee anymore! The quality has really gone downhill and they have outragous prices. I usually try not to say anything bad about others but this is one time I cannot remain silent. There are so many better seed sources out there if you must buy, and quite a network of traders if you prefer to go that route. Camo
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Post by gardenfrog on Feb 22, 2010 17:03:46 GMT -5
I got the new Burpee catalog today. They have a new hybrid they call "Tie Dye" that isn't nearly has pretty as Brad Gate's Berkeley Tie Dye. I think it is kinda "cheap" to use the name "Tie Dye" because people with think it is one of Brad's Wild Boar Farms varieties. : (
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Post by PVP on Feb 22, 2010 21:11:24 GMT -5
First off, they call their Hillbilly bicolor so-called hybrid Tye Dye, not Tie Dye.
Secondly, they did it apparently knowingly to "play" on Berkeley Tie Dye, and I can prove that by an email their representative sent me when I strongly objected to their unethical (in my opinion) outright theft of the idea if not the name itself.
Lastly, such advertising tactics display the classless tactics to which they will stoop.
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Post by peppereater on Mar 9, 2010 17:13:30 GMT -5
Say pap, I was thinking you'd said Wallyworld seed was now from Burpee, on a recent visit all I found were Ferry-Morse....are they worth their salt?
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Post by PVP on Mar 9, 2010 23:38:53 GMT -5
I have always had great luck with Ferry Morse seeds. The ones at Walmart now are $1.00 per pack which is a very reasonable price for quality seeds.
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Post by dld on Mar 10, 2010 11:41:01 GMT -5
I have had great luck with Ferry Morse seeds also, and great prices!!
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Post by larryb on Mar 29, 2011 20:41:39 GMT -5
I agree with you guys.. ferry morse seeds always take well.. I have never had any trouble.
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Post by Tom Akers on Mar 30, 2011 3:54:17 GMT -5
Me either and I have used Ferry-Morse for years.
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Post by lored on Apr 13, 2011 17:36:20 GMT -5
I'm very unhappy with Burpee this year. Most of the seed I used this year was not fresh seed. I pulled a bunch of 3 -7 year old tomato seed out of the freezer and everything came up except for one variety. I used some year old pepper seed from Landreth (I found it in a drawer) and it came up almost 100%. The only new seed (beside the Burpee eggplants) I bought was some Livingston carrot seed at Ace Hardware, I started it in seed blocks and it started really well. The only thing I had a problem with was the Burpee eggplants I bought at HomeDepot. Almost nothing. Out of almost 40 seeds, I got 3 plants. LoreD
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Post by darthslater on Apr 13, 2011 23:16:33 GMT -5
After what they did to Brad Gates, I will never buy from them again.
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Post by tucsontomato on Apr 14, 2011 23:03:21 GMT -5
I'm very unhappy with Burpee this year. Most of the seed I used this year was not fresh seed. I pulled a bunch of 3 -7 year old tomato seed out of the freezer and everything came up except for one variety. I used some year old pepper seed from Landreth (I found it in a drawer) and it came up almost 100%. The only new seed (beside the Burpee eggplants) I bought was some Livingston carrot seed at Ace Hardware, I started it in seed blocks and it started really well. The only thing I had a problem with was the Burpee eggplants I bought at HomeDepot. Almost nothing. Out of almost 40 seeds, I got 3 plants. LoreD You started carrot seed in seed blocks? What size blocks? How did that work for you? I have been meaning to try that- based on how long it takes carrots to germinate and the ease of spacing with soil blocks, but I have always been concerned about messing up the taproot.
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Post by lored on Apr 15, 2011 16:29:21 GMT -5
I started them in the small soil blocks. I've had a real problem with the almost constant rain we've been having in the Chicago area the past few years. Last year I tried doing a raised bed and the carrots were fine halfway down and then they rotted.
I'm trying the soil blocks because I'm going to transfer them to one of cloth bags (gro bags I think they're called). My only problem is that I was expecting the germination to be a little longer. Starting them in the house, they germinated in a week and are growing really fast. Since I had planned to take them out to the community garden about the end of April, I may just have to fill up the cloth bag with potting soil and put it on the bottom shelf under lights.
I'll know to start them later next year. The heat in the house really made them grow.
I'm not really seeing much going on under the soil. Almost all of the growth seems to be on the top. I had thought that I would just get germination going and then put them in. I hadn't realized that they would start so fast.
LoreD
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