Where are you US gardeners buying your vegetable seeds?
In the past, I’ve bought from Baker’s Creek, Burpee, and MI Gardener, but I have been very displeased the last two years.
I’m mostly looking for cucumbers, lettuce, and peppers this year.
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Fedco Seeds is great for variety and affordability.
Territorial Seeds and Adaptive Seeds for PNW-adapted seeds and some specific heirloom varieties I like to grow!
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I like Territorial Seeds too!
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I’m pretty loyal to Jung’s. They are local to me so they offer varieties suitable for here. Plus I can go into their very nice store.
But I do enjoy leafing through Johnny’s catalog.
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I have been pretty loyal to Territorial for many years, despite never having lived in the PNW, but I’ve bought seeds from all over, sporadically: Botanical Interests and Renee’s Garden are two they carry in local nurseries. But lately I’ve moved to Seed Savers Exchange and Fedco, and three more local companies: High Mowing (VT), Hart’s (CT), and Hudson Valley Seeds (NY). High Mowing I think may be bigger, but the other two are small producers. The heirloom Riesentraube grape tomatoes I got from Hart’s were the most productive small tomatoes I’ve ever grown! I recommend seeking out hyper local companies (and then sharing the info with us!) I also got Shintokiwa cucumbers from Turtle Tree Seeds (NY) last year and they also did very well (although expensive).
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Oh also Experimental Farm Network has some cool stuff! It’s sort of a seed breeding project as well so some of the seeds are not tested for germination, but are considered botanical samples. I got a lettuce variety from them last year that did great.
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the scabiosa is still flowering. and it’s sending out runners. we’re getting the first frost tonight, so we’ll see how it holds up through winter!
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my snaps are still snapping! the lisianthus are also somehow not quite dead yet! i planted ranunculus corms last week and covered them with tons of straw and frost cloth — and next week i’ll set up the greenhouse cover for the elevated raised bed that all these beauties live in, to see if that helps them make it through the winter. i think it will!
i dug my dahlias a few days ago and set them on my porch for a few days to dry out. today i put them into pots and covered them with soil and put them in my garage, which is unheated but is mostly underground so they should be fine down there. while i was down there, i also checked on the boston ferns and bougainvillea that i put down there a few weeks ago — everyone still looks great and it is much warmer in the garage than it is outside so fingies crossed, everyone makes it through the winter!
i know it’s still technically fall but it is hella cold out there so it’s winter to me which is depressing. BUT i realized it’s only about 6 weeks until it’s time to do my winter sowing and start some lisianthus seeds. that will be fun and i have plenty of stuff to do inside to keep me busy until then. including lots of planning to do 
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six weeks! it’s practically spring already!
this is what I tell myself at solstice to get through winter because I hate it too.
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