already?

[majorcatfish]

dw handed me yesterdays mail and there it was the first of the 2014 seed porn catalogs usually start getting them around christmas time, but stokes is out early
last years catalog had 55 pages of veggies this year theres 56 pages wonder what they added ?
tossed it into my suitcase to look over next week while out of town...

 

[Carol Dee]

Yeah some good reading for the trip. Try not to drool on the pages.

 

[digitS']

Mine came yesterday afternoon, too!

Stokes is often #1 or #2 in my seed orders, Major'. Along with Jung's and Johnny's, it won't take much more to fill out my offensive line . . .

Whatscookin'! Let's see: There's Aspabroc broccoli. I don't know how it can be a "famous new product in grocery stores and restaurants" unless Stokes is admitting they are behind the 8 ball on finally getting a variety offered - I think that might be true.

I have so much trouble growing nice carrots in this rocky soil . . . I better check what came out as fairly nice "baby carrots" in 2013 before jumping at an "improved Sweet Baby Jane type" and where has she been all my life?

How do you suppose veggie varieties get their names? Beans: Bronco, Pony Express, Hickok, Frontier - they've got a new one, Oakley. Shootinist, hootinist, tootinist . ! . . no wait, we are talking beans . . .

Cabbage! Yeah, lots of new cabbage this year. Oriental . . . which Stokes lists alphabetically in the "c's" so you know they are thinking "Chinese." Funny, there's actually a link between the old Stokes and a Japanese seed company (Sakata, was it?), I read in a history of the company. You'd think they'd pay more attention to Asia these days . . . hmm . . . always the new sweet corn . . . Stokes worried me a few years ago by having so few new anything. I guess that was the recession. . . got a new Beit Alpha cucumber and it doesn't seem to be a hybrid. Good that they've got one - I wonder if it can take cool springs. Rockstar cantaloupe, well we all want to be a rockstar. Goosebumps pumpkins. Lunch Lady!! Ornamental gourds - warted! Well, how rude!

Skipping over the accessories for now . . . Indigo Rose "cocktail size" tomato. Black tops to rose red . . . hmmm.

For the folks who can grow impatiens, Stokes always has a nice selection! You'd think they'd do well here but the hot, dry weather hits just about the time they want to bloom and you've got shriveled flowers . . . Jade sunflowers. I wonder if that is too much like the whites and doesn't hold its petals well. Sure doesn't look jade green to me but it is kind of green. Oh look at those pansies!! Yeah, this is petunia country. Should start them again in the greenhouse. They've got a new grandiflora, Limbo. Can't decide if I want petunia bedding plants, kind of in . . . maybe I'll give that some more thought! Got that new shed-attached tunnel! Some of those shorter snaps . . . dwarf delphiniums? Oops, I must have missed the salvia . . . Where did I get those big salvia in 2012?

digitS' . . .

 

[majorcatfish]

Yeah some good reading for the trip. Try not to drool on the pages.

Yup good reading.. ever since I read some posts earlier this year about potatoes
Grew some as well, purchased a couple books on growing them so I have been reading up
For next season.so far the one I have been reading is very intersting thank goodness
Since the hotel were they have in their cable tv selection stinks....

 

[Mapdoctor]

Yep, we got carpet bombed with seed catalogs the other day, too. Looking forward to looking through them all

 

[dandelionchick]

We haven't gotten any yet except Horizon herbs about a month ago. Can't wait! I'll have to get online and order a new one or two catalogs.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i got FedCo about a month ago, PineTree a couple days ago and already have a few items highlighted. this afternoon the mail guy was going around and when i met him at the box i noticed he had a ton of catalogs, none gardening but for other stuff and none were for me either.

 

[baymule]

I am totally not feeling the love.........I haven't got any catalogs at all!

 

[Smart Red]

You are not alone, Baymule. They are slow getting to Wisconsin as well. I just got my first catalog today. It's from PineTree. I know my mailbox will be filled and overflowing with catalogs soon, but getting that first one is special every year.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i'm expecting my Johnny's Seed to come anytime now that i have the other 2 companies from Maine sitting on my coffee table. oh, almost forgot i also got Dixondale Onions.