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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: silverbirch on December 11, 2007, 21:02:35
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Now, this could be dangerous
http://www.seedfest.co.uk/
A special offer until New Year. 100 packets of seeds for $30 (about £15).
Anybody out there used them before?
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you'll have lots of replies about seedfest - they're a bunch of crooks aka rogueseeds, not that i've used them
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they even got thrown off ebay because of the number of complaints.
Have a read of http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,36761.0.html
and
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,25836.0.html
Cambourne7
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Stick with Bakers Creek, Southern Exposure and Amishland seed banks - all reliable and between them offer enough diversity of choice to keep you busy for at least a decade.
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I took the special offer from seedfest two years on the trot ( in fact I introduced them here )but then last year when they closed their UK office it all went wrong. Whether they're reliable again I don't know.
I did enjoy the packs but found you'd only use a small number of the varieties. 5 types of corn, 8 types of cabbage etc.
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once bitten twice shy!
If we had received some communication we might understand but they were very sneeky and underhand. And the fact that even ebay has not let them back makes me think there sill not to be trusted.
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Thank you all for your replies. I think I'll give them a miss!!
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Has the Garden Watchdog been mentioned before? It's useful when you are considering an unknown supplier. It has ratings for thousands of vendors.
The Garden Watchdog http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/
Scroll halfway down the page to the "Browse by first letter" section and click on R for Roguelands. You'll see that Roguelands is not highly rated.
Hi, my name is Nancy. I live in New York so I mostly stick to US forums. I thought you might find the Garden Watchdog helpful, so I jumped in. Hope you don't mind.
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PLEASE don't buy from this company..please. They are perhaps the worst I have heard of. I buy most of my seeds from the US and Canada for a great many years and know most of the companys who it is sensible to trade with from the US..this is not one of them.
XX Jeannine
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Baker's Creek was recommended to me by Jeannine and is excellent - thanks, J! ;D
Thanks also to Nancy, and welcome - don't be a stranger! It's nice to compare growing conditions with people in other parts of the world. I'm sure we'll find more similarities than differences - just try talking about the weather, which on this forum will be:
too wet/ too dry/ too cold/ too hot/ too much frost/ not enough frost/ where's the sun gone/ phew wot a scorcher, my soil is like concrete/ like the desert/ like a lake, and full of weeds/ bricks/ slugs. and all my plants have wilted/ drowned/ frazzled, and I need to get a life/ get drunk/ get back out there and start again...
There, now you've met everyone here!
;D
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Well that does about sum us all up Amazin...
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Well that does about sum us all up Amazin...
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In a nutshell. :)
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Hi bcday and wellcome to A4A, now we know what your favourite(i hope!) UK forum is,i was wondering if you would let us know your favourite US forums, i for one would be intrested to see what our Friends across the pond get up to in there gardens. :) Or any other country for that matter.
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I ordered from Baker Crrek after recommendations on this site - brilliant service. I also joined via their website the "I dig my Garden" Heirloom gardening forum - which also is a good site. As with A4A members they are very welcoming and they have also swopped some seeds with me.
Link
http://idigmygarden.com/forums/index.php
I am lottie_uk on that site
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Hi all, and thanks for the welcome.
My favorite forum at the moment is Tomatoville, http://www.tomatoville.com
It's mostly about tomatoes but there are separate sections for other gardening subjects. You have to register before you can see any of the forums, but it doesn't cost anything and you won't get any ads or spam email. The default background is pink but you can change it to a style called Work Safe that I find easier on the eyes.
I like the IDigMyGarden forum that Suzanne mentioned too, that's probably my second favorite. I stay out of the political section though, things can get quite heated in there and I prefer the gardening topics anyway.
There are a smattering of other forums that I visit, but I don't spend much time on them. GardenWeb, http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/ used to be a favorite until iVillage bought it and started all the intrusive ads. Now it's practically a ghost town but I still go there sometimes. They have a lot of special interest forums, you name it and there's a forum for it at GW. If you can block the annoying popups, it's worth a glance and you don't have to register unless you want to post there.
I use the same screen name at all of them, so say hi if you see me there!
Oh, the weather...at present it's too wet/too cold, rain is melting the snow and freezing it into ice. The weather forecast says 6-8" of snow for Thursday; there is a winter storm watch in effect. All the plants are frozen. Whatever soil isn't frozen has turned to mud. The dog has dug deep holes where there used to be onions and carrots. I wish I could get her to dig up the weeds!
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hiya, bcday..welcome to the site..at the moment, it's dry, bright and veery cold in the north west of England..not as cold as you've got but cold enough for me ;D
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cool i have signed up and logged a negative entry against seedfest :)
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Hi Nancy and welcome to the madhouse, its cold but dry with morning frosts in N London. ;D ;D ;D
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Welcome to the nuthouse Nancy ;D ;D
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Thanks, all. Silverbirch, my apologies if I've drawn your thread off-topic.
The seeds in the Roguelands special offer are probably in packets marked "Packed for 2007". It is illegal here to sell those seeds after January 1, so I think that's why the offer is only good until then. A local retail store has lately been selling 2007 seeds at 10 cents/packet for the same reason (and calling them "Christmas stocking stuffers", ;D ).
Pinetree Garden Seeds is a very reliable source of seeds at relatively low prices. http://www.superseeds.com/
Baker Creek is very good too.
Tomato Growers Supply is an excellent reliable company for tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants (aubergine). I have never had a problem with their seeds or service. http://www.tomatogrowers.com/index.html
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Tomatogrowers is another one I like , I used them much more when I lived over over the other side of the pond. I find an order every three years or so is ideal for me from them now.
Welcome Nancy, XX Jeannine
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Thanks, all. Silverbirch, my apologies if I've drawn your thread off-topic.
Sorry Silverbirch, i set the ball rolling on this drift off the thread. :-[
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No problems at all frogslegs.
Can I add my welcome to bcday. Yep, it is a nuthouse here, but a very friendly and welcoming one. I feel very much at home and hope you do to.
Thanks to everyone who warned me off.
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I am curiuos about her name BC day??? XX Jeannine
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Oh, dear...talk about nuts...when I decided to register at the first forum I ever joined, I had a hard time coming up with a screen name that wasn't already taken. I finally settled on one that started with BC for Border Collie, since I had two of them, and then I filled in the other three required letters with anything that would be easy to remember and could be typed with one hand if I had a cup of coffee or whatever in the other hand ;D. I suppose it sounds like nonsense now, but I was in a hurry to get registered and never expected to use that screen name any more after one or two posts. Now after several years it's kind of stuck with me and I'm not about to change the BC part, so I guess I'll keep the nonsense part too. ::)
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You can certainly join the madhouse Bcday. :P :P :P ;D ;D ;D