Who is ready to think about gardening? Here are some Vegetable Seed Sources!

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<p>I compiled this for another forum, and thought I would share it here as well. </p>

<p>I have ordered from all of these several times with good results. I don’t think I ever had a Renee’s catalog, though. </p>

<p>Renee’s Garden Seeds-vegetables and flowers; I get sugar snaps from here, and sweet pea seeds here too. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.reneesgarden.com/seeds/seeds-hm/seeds.html”>http://www.reneesgarden.com/seeds/seeds-hm/seeds.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Peaceful Valley-organic. I get my garlic and shallots here, and some supplies. They also have seed potatoes and Renee’s Seeds.</p>

<p><a href=“Organic, Heirloom Non-GMO Seeds Online from $2.99 | Grow Organic”>http://www.groworganic.com/seeds.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Kitchen Garden Seeds </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.kitchengardenseeds.com”>http://www.kitchengardenseeds.com</a></p>

<p>Tomato Growers Supply-tomato, eggplant and pepper seeds</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.tomatogrowers.com”>http://www.tomatogrowers.com</a></p>

<p>Seeds From Italy-favas and garlic, among other things</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.growitalian.com”>http://www.growitalian.com</a></p>

<p>The Cooks Garden-haven’t ordered from here in years, but nice catalog. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cooksgarden.com/”>http://www.cooksgarden.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Harris Seeds-I bought a green house from this one, and I think a compost bin, It’s been awhile</p>

<p><a href=“Vegetable Seeds For Sale - Satisfaction Guaranteed – Harris Seeds”>http://www.harrisseeds.com/storefront/s-4-vegetable-seed.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Territorial-great for a year round perspective, at least in the west. They have seasonal garden planners on their website.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.territorialseed.com/”>http://www.territorialseed.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>planner <a href=“http://gardenplanner.territorialseed.com/”>http://gardenplanner.territorialseed.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>spring growing guide
<a href=“http://www.territorialseed.com/category/spring_growing_guides”>http://www.territorialseed.com/category/spring_growing_guides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>fall/winter garden guide
<a href=“http://www.territorialseed.com/category/fall_winter_growing_guides”>http://www.territorialseed.com/category/fall_winter_growing_guides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I don’t recall ordering from Parks,Burpee’s,Jung, and Gurney’s, but the send catalogs. </p>

<p>Oh, and Johnny’s</p>

<p><a href=“Vegetable Seeds & Plants - 100% Guaranteed | Johnny's Selected Seeds”>Vegetable Seeds & Plants - 100% Guaranteed | Johnny's Selected Seeds;

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<p>Don’t forget to order your onion “sets”. I get Red Candy Apple from Dixondale farms. They are scrumptious!</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.dixondalefarms.com”>http://www.dixondalefarms.com</a></p>

<p>For the onion sets, you can choose the week you want the delivered. They don’t need to be planted right away, but they can’t hang around for a long time. </p>

<p>Another seed source, they’re in VA so everything is great for the Mid Atlantic.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.southernexposure.com”>http://www.southernexposure.com</a></p>

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<p>Yes! I believe I used to get seed potatoes from southern exposure. Aren’t they the same as “Irish Eyes”? </p>

<p>Nope! Here is Irish Eyes</p>

<p><a href=“http://irisheyesgardenseeds.com/potato-seed.html”>http://irisheyesgardenseeds.com/potato-seed.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Do you get the onion “sets” or the onion “plants”? I have ordered the plants from Dixondale, because I read they are lest likely to “bolt” than the sets. The “sets” look like tiny onions. I find onions pretty trick to grow, but easier from plants than seeds. I do much better with shallots, because I do them in the fall when it is not so hot and dry, and they easily overwinter. Are you long day, short, or intermediate? Which varieties have you had success with. </p>

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<p>I like your list and plan on thinking about spring and gardening tomorrow when I am snowed in. I did want to say that checking on Davegarden.com and check out the companies. There are some seed companies (not on your list) that are just terrible.</p>

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<p>Last year I tried starting tomato seeds in both little peat pots and also in the bottom parts of empty 2 liter plastic soda bottles. The seeds in the peat pots didn’t do much at all, but the seeds in the plastic pots did perfect. I used the same potting mix in both types of container. Did I do something wrong with using peat pots? …they didn’t work for me. It seems something from the peat pots didn’t agree with the seeds growing well. Anyone had a similar experience or have suggestions? I’m not planning on using peat pots again this spring.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the list Shrinkrap. I tend to get a couple of catalogs but then don’t start plants indoors in time and end up buying plants at local small garden places. I really have a small garden space so have to choose wisely or my family will tease me all summer about planting things they don’t like to eat. </p>

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<p>@shrinkwrap - I’m right in the intermediate zone so I’ve grown all 3 of Dixondale’s intermediate onions. The yellow one, Candy, gets huge and is very good and sweet but I liked the stronger bite of Red Candy Apple. The white one was boring.</p>

<p>I have them delivered in mid February and plant in late February or early March. It might be a bit later this year since it’s been so cold, but go EARLY rather than later. I plant them closer together than recommended, and pull them out and harvest them as spring onions when they get crowded. Then, you can eat the bulbs and the tops. </p>

<p>When the tops die over, you can pull them up but they can stay in the ground longer if that’s convenient for you. Unlike garlic, they really seem to propel themselves up out of the ground! I just fertilize them when planting with a row of bone meal, and then maybe once more. Dixondale has a good planting guide and a video on their web site.</p>

<p>I’ve used “sets” which are about 1/2 the length of a pencil with a very tiny, non-bulbed bottom that is the color that the onion will be. </p>

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<p>Great links, Shinkrap!</p>

<p>Most of our edible landscaping comes from Raintree:
<a href=“http://www.raintreenursery.com/”>http://www.raintreenursery.com/&lt;/a&gt;
They have awesome cultivars from Eastern Europe and parts of what used to be the Soviet Union. Our quince tree never disappoints, and the freebie plum that we got from them turned out to be very prolific, producing buckets of sweet, juicy fruit every August.</p>

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<p>I think I ordered from Raintree once. I wonder if that’s where I got my pluot with three grafted cultivars. Bloomed like crazy a few years ago, I did my spring spray ( no sulfur ), and it died! </p>

<p>“I’m right in the intermediate zone so I’ve grown all 3 of Dixondale’s intermediate onions. The yellow one, Candy, gets huge and is very good and sweet but I liked the stronger bite of Red Candy Apple. The white one was boring.”</p>

<p>I mostly try to grow cipollini’s but this year I am growing one of the sweets. It might be candy, or “the white one”, or maybe that one Georgia. Can’t think of the cultivar. </p>

<p>This year I’m planting in “earth boxes”, including the onions. I had great success with them last year. We have plenty of land ( relatively speaking), but it’s on a slope and really difficult to irrigate. I have 5 redwood 12’ deep planter boxes but they are FULL of redwood tree roots. Seem’s like a just punishment. </p>