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Post by PVP on Feb 8, 2010 12:02:32 GMT -5
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Post by jcm05 on Feb 8, 2010 21:02:58 GMT -5
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Post by Penny on Feb 9, 2010 9:08:35 GMT -5
Thanks......great links.
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Post by klorentz on Feb 12, 2010 3:34:48 GMT -5
rareseeds.com No intro needed here ether lol. I would also like to speek up for Johnny's as well. Always good seed ,prices and service.Real good folks. Kevin
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Post by PVP on Feb 13, 2010 1:03:47 GMT -5
Yes, I should have included Johnny's Selected Seeds in my original post. They are a great source for the Ben Quisenberry's original Brandywine Sudduth as well as several good hybrid tomatoes like Sun Gold, Flavorita and others.
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Post by camochef on Feb 14, 2010 17:33:12 GMT -5
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Post by dld on Feb 16, 2010 7:16:03 GMT -5
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Post by bunkie on Feb 16, 2010 12:26:49 GMT -5
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Post by greyghost on Feb 22, 2010 11:29:14 GMT -5
Love the above (really loved seeing Glecklers available again- great selection of hard-to-find varieties) sites. Two others I ordered from this year www.sampleseeds.com and Tatianastomatobase.com both had great selections and service can't beat the price at sampleseeds Tatiana has a new on-line order page this year.
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Post by PVP on Feb 22, 2010 12:29:23 GMT -5
Yes, I ordered from Tatiana's this year. I think this year is her first year to go public, right?
Anyway, very good service and speedy turn-around time. Nice person touch with her emails and the price is about as inexpensive as you can get considering the seeds are shipped from Canada.
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Post by greyghost on Feb 23, 2010 11:45:09 GMT -5
Hi, Bill This year was the first year you could actually place an order directly on her site (easy to use, wasn't it?) and use Paypal to pay for it.
Last year, you had to email your order and she would email a paypal-or you could send a check, I think. I didn't buy anythink from her last year-I remember it just seemed a bit awkward.
Just made another order (had to have Orlov Yellow!) and I notice she added a feature so you could use a credit card if you don't have a Paypal account.
She's really a class act and her site is a wonderful reference. I'm sure everyone knows about her site, but if you don't, check it out. Photos and comments from SSE members on, I think, a couple of thousand varieties.
She posts on T'Ville--I think last year was her first to sell seeds?
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Post by PVP on Feb 23, 2010 17:54:23 GMT -5
Yes, Orlov Yellow was one that I ordered also.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 21, 2010 15:39:20 GMT -5
The following are Canadian sources for heirloom seeds as I have it on the best authority that we have a few Canucks here www.yuko.caIn 2006, when I couldn't get a variety of bean that I wanted at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, while on vacation in OK and MO, I came home to source it online. Wouldn't you know, I would be able to find it only 1-1/2 hours from me (at the time) in a sleepy little suburb just outside of Carrie Underwood's new hometown . Yuko and I have been friends ever since. But aside from that, professionally speaking, she has always provided quality seeds raised in her own backyard garden and packages them up in Japanese style. A longstanding member of SSE and Seeds of Diversity. www.uppercanadaseeds.caWhere else can you order just one packet of seeds? David Ackerman also acknowledged my online order and sent an email notification that he had shipped the package. It arrived within 2 days . www.terraedibles.caThe proprietor was at one time President of the Canadian Organic Growers. It was wonderful to go shopping for seeds or plants and also pick up the latest issue of their magazine. I haven't been in the past few years so I can't say whether this is still the case? But I hear it's still a Class act.
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Post by blackthumb on May 22, 2010 13:17:32 GMT -5
I was wondering if there would be any one US source that I might be able to get seeds for many types of somewhat uncommon tomato plants. I'm trying to get ready for next year, I'm hoping that by the end of February 2011 that I can find a source of tomato seeds that is almost unabridged for a reasonable price. This year I probably spent $40 worth of gas driving around to all the garden centers, feed stores, hardware stores, local greenhouses, and retail stores and searched their seed selection and had rather poor pickings. I ended up ordering from a few online seed companies to get some of the less common tomato seeds; that ended up being about another $40 worth of shipping. I'm hoping to find a cheaper more reasonable legitimate way of getting legitimate seeds. I am poor and disabled and am on a fixed income and live in a trailer park and only have a garden about the size of a parking space. I don't think it's reasonable for me to be spending all this money, causing all this wear and tear on my vehicle, and going through the pain of going shopping all over the place. I've probably spent $500 this year on a garden not much larger than a parking space. I'm interested in so many different types because I'm trying to find a varieties that does good in my garden conditions and climate and in 4-10 gallon containers. Part of my garden gets a fair amount of sun but is extremely hot because it's close to blacktop, part of the place where I'm trying to grow tomatoes only gets about two to three hours of direct sunlight a day. The cramped containers, the cramped conditions, the poor lighting, and other factors make this a very difficult location to grow tomatoes without having a lot of problems. So I was wanting to try a mixture of heirlooms and hybrids that have high disease resistance. There are some new ones I would like to try next year that are allegedly blight resistance; I don't know what their names are. I prefer red cherry tomatoes that are very sweet and have seeds. I don't know if they have any blight resistant cherry tomatoes yet; if they did have any blight resistant red cherry tomatoes I would be interesting and getting some seeds. I am somewhat of a nerd and this is somewhat of an experiment even though the scale is horribly small, I'm interested in see how well different varieties do and how they taste. This year most of the tomato plants that I started from seed didn't do too well, many of them died or have been stunted since I transplanted them. When they were inside they grew faster than I expected and due to my cramped conditions of trailer park living I had to give away and put them outside. Ironically the ones I gave to my neighbor are doing better than my own. I gave my extra tomato plants to my neighbor during a warm cloudy peroid so they only had minimal transplant shock. To try to avoid damage from frost I kept mine inside longer however I had my seedling garden on top of my dryer, the dryer broke and I needed to fix the dryer so I had to move the seedlings outside during a sunny cold peroid; so mine suffered quite a bit of shock. The lady that I gave the tomato plants to didn't keep the flags with the names of the tomatoes so my experiment is pretty much ruined this year. Next year I hope to build a small elevated greenhouse about the size of the doghouse so that my seedlings will hopefully get more light and suffer less transplant shock. Next year I hope to use larger plastic pots to start the seedlings in. I'm not very happy with the peat pots, or the peat pellets as they seem a little short on the nutrients and seem to have problems with fungus and mold and also seem to have more root trauma when repotting or transplanting. The seedlings that I had in plastic pots seemed to transplant much better. Since my seedlings did so poorly; I resorted to getting tomato plants from the local greenhouse. They are doing excellent, I have a nice early start, they are nice big healthy plants. They were fairly large when I first got them but they didn't look in the greatest of health, I was afraid they might have some diseases. However after some tender loving care and some preventative treatments they have recovered nicely and seem to be doing quite well. I tried using some organic politically correct insecticides and fungicides (neem oil, insecticidal soap, and pepper wax) to treat the sick looking greenhouse plants, I did get some leaf burn on some of the tomato plants and for a while I was afraid I might lose some of them; but in the last couple weeks they have rebounded and are starting to explode in growth and are starting to look very healthy. This is the following list of seeds that I have or am looking for. Some of the names might be duplicates (aliases) and I may have even made a mistake on some of them. I was hoping to find a seed supplier that's reasonably priced that has all or most of the seeds on my list. I prefer indeterminate tomatoes. Tomato seeds I have for but have not been able to find in stores. Salad Fourth of July Peacevine Tumbler Pixie Tumbling Tom Small Fry Sweetheart of the Patio HoneyBunch Bunch Sweet Baby Girl Little Girl Balconi Red Falcorosso Sweet Chelsea. ==== Less common seeds I bought on the Internet/mail-order. Sweet Million Sugar Snack Suncherry Amish Salad Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato Super Suncherry Tomato ==== More common tomatoe seeds that I found in stores. Sweet 100 Supersweet 100 Large red cherry Right bite Tasty treat Sweetie Gardener's Delight Sweet snackin Patio For some of the less common harder to find seeds I ordered over the Internet/mail order from Reimer Seeds and Johnny's Selected Seeds. Reimer Seeds reimerseeds.com/ Johnny's Selected Seeds www.johnnyseeds.com
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Post by PVP on May 23, 2010 7:30:54 GMT -5
Most any tomato seed you could want can be found at one of the vendors already listed in this discussion.
If you want access to over 4000 open pollinated tomato varieties, you can join Seed Savers Exchange and receive the Yearbook next winter from which you may order whatever your heart desires.
Peace, PV
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