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?
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