Sitting here on this cold Ohio Valley day (10 degrees, 3 inches of new snow) I am enjoying the new seed and plant catalogs that are arriving in the mail daily. Since Christmas I have got about half a dozen and I'm sure that there are more to come.
Which catalogs do you like the most and who is you favorite seed or plant vendor?
Duh. Victoria's Secret, obviously.
Burpee for almost all my seeds, because in 35 years of gardening, their seeds have always exceeded the claimed parameters, and my expectations. Cooks Garden for the more obscure greens that Burpee doesn't carry or doesn't label clearly.
Bill Wagner who is looking for snow and just put out some suet.
I like Vermont Bean Co. They have outstanding varities you don't find everywhere like their Fortex pole bean. The best I have ever tried.
From Mel & Donnie in Bluebird Valley
Best in what way?
Haven't seen any yet, but I have gotten a few daylily catalogs C
Bill,
How much snow do you want? I have plenty.
C
And I'll send you some cold weather. Right now is is 12 degrees!
You folks just have to coordinate right now it is 18 F with 29 F the high for today. It is dry but warmer is coming and I'd guess some rain then. I know why too. It is my fault I bought an electric snow shovel two winters ago. Have yet to use it . Heart problems sort of made that smart but I was not aware of the snow Jinx it would cause.
Bill
I'm colder - 1F this AM at sunrise and now a toasty 9
C
How the heck does an electric shovel work?
I have the plow guy - an absolute necessity this year! I do the walk to the front door C
Bill Thinking about what to plant that we never did before.
A mini snow blower! totally useless here.
CBill R wrote in news:477cf4f1$0$30762$ snipped-for-privacy@news.iglou.com:
no no NO! we already have the cold. right now it's 7F with a windchill of -15F. you can keep your cold weather... oh, wait. your cold is warmer than my cold. ok, send it over! Cheryl, how much snow did you get New Years Day? we got another foot. i tried walking through the veggie garden yesterday. the snow is up to my thigh! someone parked a Mini Cooper in my driveway & you couldn't see it over the snowbank. that was funny. lee
I figure we got another 6+ inches. Hard to tell with the wind blowing so! Cheryl
Top 3 (in no particular order):
Territorial:
Nichols:
Fedco:
Other I've tried:
Used to order a fair bit from Pinetree.. Good prices, good service, but their germination didn't seem to be as good others. I'll still use them for bulbs and tubers. Best seed potato prices I know of.
I've also ordered from Vermont Bean, Totally Tomatoes, Seymour's Selected Seeds, Jung's... Which I now realize are all affiliated
I've also ordered from Burpee and some of the other "glossy" catalog providers. Good product, just too expensive when compared to others.
Cheers! Snotbottom
Where do you live Cheryl ?
Bill
Southern NH - only 10-15 miles SW from Lee as the crow flies. Not that the crows are flying today. C
Cheryl Isaak wrote in news:C3A2B68D.872A9% snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net:
oh, yeah. wind. coming flat off the pasture into poor Perl's crappy little makeshift shed... i put up a piece of playwood & yet another tarp to try to reduce the wind driven snow. hard to keep her dry that way. i was so happy her llama coat came yesterday afternoon. i put it on her *over* the blanket. with the wind blocked the shed warmed up to a bit over ambient outside temps & the sun was shining in the unblocked side this morning.
what is it, more like 25-30 miles if you drive? i wasn't doing much of that today either. lee
enigma expounded:
It was a balmy six degrees F this morning. 15.4 was our high. Hubby is on his way up to the Maine house to shovel off the roof, I guess we've got two feet sitting on it, which means the snow out back would be past my thigh! I do wish we'd kept our snowcover down here, unfortunately it melted before this cold snap.
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