Who orders vegetable seeds through the mail?

[newchickenfamily]

Great info everyone! I haven't ordered seeds online before, but I plan to this year. I did just split a potato order with a friend. We ordered potatoes through this site:

https://stores.myregisteredsite.com...Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=RPFL&Category_Code=CSP

Can't wait to get them in the ground!

 

[enola]

Before I moved to SC from WV, I ordered from Park's for YEARS ! Then I moved to Greenwood, SC, so now I just buy my seeds right from the store. Last year I went to their yearly flower show ! I love Park's Seed Co.

 

[PurpleChicken]

OK, you people are killing this second year gardener. There are too many
choices!!!!!!! Ahhhh!!!!

Can someone please recommend their top five favorites from Baker.
It will be fall before I decide or I'll buy too many.

Please help this newbie gardener. I have a 9 x 12 raised bed (1 to 4')
in my front yard with 80% sun and 6 x 50' of a slope that gets 60% sun.

Last year I did too many varieties of tomatoes and had a lousy crop.

 

[maplesky7]

grow some yellow crooked necks squash and zuchinni's on your slope...maybe some bush type cumbers?


and I usually start with started tomato plants from the local nursery...full sun. I like the big boys for slicing and then a cherry tomato for salads.

and then you'll need some green beans...and some cabbage and spinach and lettuce...

ooh and pumpkins on your slope! and maybe some ornamental guards too...those lil kind that people fill up bowls in the fall.

i set mine to the curb with a coffee can for the honor system...it worked...it's been a number of years since i did that....wonder if I'd still have the same blessing or not. or if rotten people would be rotten?

 

[lavandula girl]

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Try these guys - they're really great, and sell certified organic seed potatoes. Fast shipping, too. I have had great luck with their All Blue, Cranberry Red, and the fingerlings, especially Russian Banana. I was disappointed with King Harry, but not with the seed potatoes, with the potatoes themselves. They were good, I just have other yellow potatoes I liked better.

http://www.woodprairie.com/

 

[lavandula girl]

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In a space that small, I would grow only what you really like to eat. Baker Creek has a great Chef's Choice Mixed Greens, which you could turn several times in CT over the course of the summer, Several of the peppers would be good choices, as well as some of the bush beans. You could still put in radishes and turn them several times as well. Podding radishes are nice (all radishes eventually pod, but some are meant to do it more quickly). In that space, I'd avoid growing anything with a take-over type vine, unless you LOVE them. Do you have anywhere else to grow veggies besides this 9X12 plot? Maybe containers? Some squashes actually look really pretty interspersed with flowers. Also, perennial veggies, like asparagus and artichokes, can be grown in your flower gardens.

 

[Amyable]

I found Ronniger's Potato Farm for potatoes: they offer organic as well as conventionally grown, many types of spuds including heirlooms, and the prices seem to be good. www.ronnigers.com
Haven't ordered yet, but plan to. They are in CO.

 

[jessupfamily]

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One year we had (2) 4'x8' raised beds (we are big fans of raised beds). We were feeding a family of 5 at that time. We planted in 4' rows (from Baker Creek):
At the end of one bed
A mix of Black seeded Simpon Lettuce mixed with Flame Lettuce
Lincoln Peas
Bloomsdale Longstanding Spinach
Early Scarlet Globe Radish


Then when they were done we pulled them up and put out our plants that we had started indoors. (Except Squash and Zucchini, the seeds when straight in.) In KY this was around the end of April to first week of May.
In 4' rows again:
Early Prolific Straightneck (Yellow Squash)
Zucchini Black Beauty
Quadrato D'asti Rosso (Red Bell Pepper)
Italian Pepperoncini
Tam Jalapeno
Clemson Spineless Okra
Black Beauty Eggplant
Waltham 29 Broccoli
Little Finger Carrots
Lime Green Salad Tomatoes (Med. Green)
Orange Banana Tomatoes (Small Orange)
Roma Tomatoes (Small Red)
Amish Paste Tomatoes (Large Red)
Yellow Pear Tomatoes (Small Yellow)
Thessaloniki Tomatoes (Large Red)

At the end of the season we replanted lettuce, radishes, spinach, and peas.

On the slope:

Melons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Royal Golden (Yellow rind, red flesh, by far the sweetest watermelon ever, and quick!)
Blacktail Mountain (Green rind, red flesh, quick, and super hardy!)
Hales Best (Early muskmelon, "cantalope")

We ate everything fresh out of the garden (children also!). And we put some away, we made salsa, sun dried tomatoes, diced tomatoes, sauces, and we gave some away. We got soooo much out of those two small beds! Then we (family of 8) had a 1/4 acre garden (this is when we added corns, melons, and everything we ever wanted to try!) and went crazy and loved every minute of it!
You can plant closer together in raised beds if they are pretty deep.
Enjoy!!!

Blessings,
Amy J.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Quote:
One year we had (2) 4'x8' raised beds (we are big fans of raised beds). We were feeding a family of 5 at that time. We planted in 4' rows (from Baker Creek):
At the end of one bed
A mix of Black seeded Simpon Lettuce mixed with Flame Lettuce
Lincoln Peas
Bloomsdale Longstanding Spinach
Early Scarlet Globe Radish


Then when they were done we pulled them up and put out our plants that we had started indoors. (Except Squash and Zucchini, the seeds when straight in.) In KY this was around the end of April to first week of May.
In 4' rows again:
Early Prolific Straightneck (Yellow Squash)
Zucchini Black Beauty
Quadrato D'asti Rosso (Red Bell Pepper)
Italian Pepperoncini
Tam Jalapeno
Clemson Spineless Okra
Black Beauty Eggplant
Waltham 29 Broccoli
Little Finger Carrots
Lime Green Salad Tomatoes (Med. Green)
Orange Banana Tomatoes (Small Orange)
Roma Tomatoes (Small Red)
Amish Paste Tomatoes (Large Red)
Yellow Pear Tomatoes (Small Yellow)
Thessaloniki Tomatoes (Large Red)

At the end of the season we replanted lettuce, radishes, spinach, and peas.

On the slope:

Melons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Royal Golden (Yellow rind, red flesh, by far the sweetest watermelon ever, and quick!)
Blacktail Mountain (Green rind, red flesh, quick, and super hardy!)
Hales Best (Early muskmelon, "cantalope")

We ate everything fresh out of the garden (children also!). And we put some away, we made salsa, sun dried tomatoes, diced tomatoes, sauces, and we gave some away. We got soooo much out of those two small beds! Then we (family of 8) had a 1/4 acre garden (this is when we added corns, melons, and everything we ever wanted to try!) and went crazy and loved every minute of it!
You can plant closer together in raised beds if they are pretty deep.
Enjoy!!!

Blessings,
Amy J.

That is a great list. Thanks for taking the time for making it.
I'm gonna take an inventory of my existing seeds and then make
an order this weekend.

This is making me wanna make a few more raised beds.

I'm trying to perfect my tomato cages and can plant them anywhere
to keep my raised beds clear for other vegies.

 

[maplesky7]

blah blah blah...come till my garden.


My big tiller takes ME for rides and my lil tiller will take too long.


pleeeeease? pretty pretty pleeeeease?