Post by 12540dumont on Mar 22, 2012 15:25:58 GMT -5
St. Joseph, if that corn was already in my mailbox, I'd have to believe that you were getting help from the heavenly host there in Paradise. Sheesh, we only talked about that 2 days ago.
The folks I'm complaining about got my seed orders the first week of February and are now some of them just getting around to dropping them in the mail and still shorting me seed.
I have not heard from Mr. Bonsall either.
Cortona, there was a guy in Italy that I sent money to, who never sent seeds. (But it wasn't you!) You've already sent me so many seeds, it just feeds my addiction.
I agree that some folks are just annoying.
I have gotten VERY good seeds from Amy Goldsmith, well packaged, and well labeled. AND they were not crossed up. The folks from Adapative Seed, who are also in the SSE book, sent my seeds in 10 days. The stuff I ordered from Sylvia Davatz was here within a week.
I know there's a lot of seeds that I would never have gotten or tried without them. But there's just a few bad apples in that group.
I no longer send "cash" to anyone. Although I am a seed-a-holic, I do have a budget and can only do so many projects a year.
This year I have the onion, carrot, melons, Showell's squashes and the heirloom Italian bean trials going as well as winter wheat, barley, and spring rice. I also have snap peas and snow peas and if I get them in, soup peas. So, my plate is full and I hate having to chase people down for seeds. As well as if I planned to put one of these onions, or carrots in the trial, they won't be now, as they are not here. Which means I have to fix all the trial sheets to eliminate that variety.
And as Steev says, I'd much rather hang out with all of you.... than send nastygrams across the web. Which for me is sort of a timid, "Hi, have you sent my seeds yet?"
I will stop doing trials when I find a lettuce that is sweet and slow to bolt, the perfect artichoke for long season and large size, the peas that will make peas all the way till June without keeling over, a carrot that's sweet and big enough to juice and dehydrate, onions that will overwinter for an early season crop in the field, and summer onions that will hold all winter long, a great storage melon that will help me take my CSA all the way through November, an op sweet corn that will hold in the fridge or field for 5-7 days, a flour corn that is delicious and easy to grind and doesn't take 125 days in the field, a squash that's sweet-bug resistant-and keeps...and beans, well I just like beans that are beautiful tasty and productive. (Okay, so I already found them, and I have a problem.
So my big beef is generally the same in all cases, if you're not going to do it, don't say you are going to do it. Lead, follow or get out of my way. Or something like that. I'm glad to see that some folks have had the mixed bag of experience as well otherwise I was beginning to think that I have a knack for choosing the bad seed.
The folks I'm complaining about got my seed orders the first week of February and are now some of them just getting around to dropping them in the mail and still shorting me seed.
I have not heard from Mr. Bonsall either.
Cortona, there was a guy in Italy that I sent money to, who never sent seeds. (But it wasn't you!) You've already sent me so many seeds, it just feeds my addiction.
I agree that some folks are just annoying.
I have gotten VERY good seeds from Amy Goldsmith, well packaged, and well labeled. AND they were not crossed up. The folks from Adapative Seed, who are also in the SSE book, sent my seeds in 10 days. The stuff I ordered from Sylvia Davatz was here within a week.
I know there's a lot of seeds that I would never have gotten or tried without them. But there's just a few bad apples in that group.
I no longer send "cash" to anyone. Although I am a seed-a-holic, I do have a budget and can only do so many projects a year.
This year I have the onion, carrot, melons, Showell's squashes and the heirloom Italian bean trials going as well as winter wheat, barley, and spring rice. I also have snap peas and snow peas and if I get them in, soup peas. So, my plate is full and I hate having to chase people down for seeds. As well as if I planned to put one of these onions, or carrots in the trial, they won't be now, as they are not here. Which means I have to fix all the trial sheets to eliminate that variety.
And as Steev says, I'd much rather hang out with all of you.... than send nastygrams across the web. Which for me is sort of a timid, "Hi, have you sent my seeds yet?"
I will stop doing trials when I find a lettuce that is sweet and slow to bolt, the perfect artichoke for long season and large size, the peas that will make peas all the way till June without keeling over, a carrot that's sweet and big enough to juice and dehydrate, onions that will overwinter for an early season crop in the field, and summer onions that will hold all winter long, a great storage melon that will help me take my CSA all the way through November, an op sweet corn that will hold in the fridge or field for 5-7 days, a flour corn that is delicious and easy to grind and doesn't take 125 days in the field, a squash that's sweet-bug resistant-and keeps...and beans, well I just like beans that are beautiful tasty and productive. (Okay, so I already found them, and I have a problem.
So my big beef is generally the same in all cases, if you're not going to do it, don't say you are going to do it. Lead, follow or get out of my way. Or something like that. I'm glad to see that some folks have had the mixed bag of experience as well otherwise I was beginning to think that I have a knack for choosing the bad seed.