Seed catalogs out already?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by BrazosValleyGardener

I tell you what is cruel!! I arrive home from work and see a seed catalog. It just so happens that it is from Tomato Growers Supply - fantastic!! I hurry to unload my laptop bag and come back to see what their latest catalog looks like. But wait....something is very familiar about it and it should be. Why? It was the 2007 catalog. (LOL).

Jay

I don't know why you got the 07 catalog but I posted elsewhere here that Linda Sapp was in IL a week ago this past Monday to monitor the press run of the 08 and so it usually takes a couple of weeks after that before it starts showing up.

I know some of what's new, but I'm not talking, b'c I've been told not to.

Got my Scheepers Kitchen catalog yesterday. Nice line drawings. Maybe I got it b'c I splurged and bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of bulbs and stuff for Fall planting.
Freda did that, bless her.

After 2-3 years if you don't buy most places send you to the deep and since I haven't bought much veggie seed since I fell, I may come up short with many of the catalogs I normally would get.

Looks like I'll just have to lessen the amount of snow we have to fit in the few catalogs I will get.

[gssgarden]

Nice!!

Since my post last week about getting nothing, I've gotton 6 !!

Pinetree
Vermont Bean - one of my favorites
R H Shumway's
Gurney's
Totally Tomatoe's - one of my favorites
and today - the SSE 2008 catalog!!

I like this one-a-day stuff. Keep 'em coming!!

Greg

[Soilsniffer]

Got my SSE catalog the other day. This is the first time I remember that the pages aren't almost dripping with excess color. Those purple carrots finally look real, instead of like they were spraypainted at an auto body shop.

[dokutaaguriin]

I would like to offer my 2008 catalogue PDF for your persual:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jwlcasey/...toes/Home.html

Comments or questions would greatly appreciated.
Jeff
EDIT: I fixed the link

[BVGardener]

I received my 2008 Tomato Growers Supply catalog yesterday.

Jay

[creister]

I've already recieved Totally Tomatoes, SSE(non-member), and Vermont BeanCo.

Jeff,
I liked your cataloge and varieties offered. Now I have to redo my grow list.

[Tormato]

w00t!

I just received Baker Creek's. Jere says he's mailing out something like 110,000 of them. I quickly placed my order, wondering if he'll be crushed with requests in a month or two.

Tormato

[svalli]

I received my first catalogs on Christmas eve. I placed order already on TGS, for Black Zebra and quite many other tomato and pepper varieties; even I do not need more varieties to grow.

I just finished marking up Jung's vegetable catalog for seeds I would like to get. I do not know, if I should place the order or not, since I'm worried that the seeds will not arrive before we move out on second week of January.

I wish the catalogs would have arrived couple of weeks earlier.

[piegirl]

anyone seen Burpee's or Harris Seed? This is the 3rd year I have requested Burpee's and it just never arrives - loads of email sale, sale, sale, even phone calls didn't help. Piegirl

[cecilsgarden1958]

I got to see a Burpee Catalog today. My neighbor got his, mine is still not here.
I see my favorite Bush Big Boy has been demted to the white bargin page.

CECIL

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by piegirl

anyone seen Burpee's or Harris Seed? This is the 3rd year I have requested Burpee's and it just never arrives - loads of email sale, sale, sale, even phone calls didn't help. Piegirl

I think I have the Harris catalog out there in the pile and will check tomorrow.

The last item I bought from Burpee was back in the mid-9o's when I bought plants and seed of what they then called Red Brandywine Hybrid, which them morphed eventually into Buck's County Red.

I think you get my drift here re Burpee which isn't limited to just Buck's County Red.

[BVGardener]

I got the new Burpee catalog last week. It had a few new ones listed:

• Razzle Dazzle
• Tangerine Mama
• Golden Mama
• Italian Ice
• Honey Bunch

Jay

[JerryL]

I received both Burpee and Harris on Christmas Eve. No Santa didn’t bring them.

I haven’t had a chance to do anything more than give them a quick look but they do have pretty pictures.

It will be interesting to see how many descriptions and pictures exaggerate the desirability of each variety. I’ve yet to see anyone describe a tomato as anything but delicious. But then I guess it wouldn’t be a good marketing decision to say “this tomato tastes like old socks” now would it?

[BigdaddyJ]

Still nothing from:

Parks
Burpee
Johnny's

They should be anyday I hope.

[Rena]

I am waiting on Johnny's and Parks