What do you think about Baker Creek Heirloom seed company?
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
12 years ago
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Gonna Try Some Baker Creek Heirlooms This Fall
Comments (13)AHA, Tony...but DID YOU TASTE IT??? One man's "tart is another man's sweetie"!!! Taste is so personal and how can you tell me what something tastes like if you did not taste it yourself??? Hmmm?? I have been unimpressed even put off with the taste of tomatoes others have raved about and yet loved the flavor of tomatoes others call boring. You can't judge a tomato by the way someone else tastes it! Sorry, sounds like a soap box. I love ya Tony and I know ya hate tomatoes, but you have grown so many and given us so much tomato advice, just this time...I had to call ya on it. Tomatoes are so diversified in flavour! Shoot, I don't think I can explain it right. Everyone has a different taster!! Treefroggie, Sumala, Tom, Denise, Scents-Linda, Larry, Moe, Curley...help me here I think I have gone over the edge!! I can't seem to say it right!...See MoreBaker Creek Heirloom Seeds Spring Festival 2007
Comments (12)Christie, Yes, they do. It's about an hour for me but the drive is easy. The thing about Baker Creek is that you'll find things there you definitely won't find elsewhere, especially with heirloom vegetables. But they have garlic, fruit trees, native plants, perennials, annuals, tools, books, soap, food, etc. Lots of fun stuff! Oh... and don't forget the speakers which is the main reason I like to go. Here are the speakers for the Fall Festival. I think you would particularly enjoy Patrick Byers. I've heard him four times on four different topics and it's always fascinating so you learn a lot. Doug Oster is the garden writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a nationally syndicated garden writer, TV guest, producer of the radio program, "The Organic Gardeners" and his new book "Grow Organic" is due out soon. www.theorganicgardeners.com Len Pense has developed a new method of raised bed gardening. It will make gardening easy for anyone, weed-free and organic. His farm and methods have been featured several times in "Rural Missouri" magazine. Check out his site! www.gardeningrevolution.com Wesley Greene is an expert on historical plants and gardening. He is the Garden Historian at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He also writes for "The Heirloom Gardener". www.cwf.org Kelly Norris is a 20 year old Master Gardener, freelance writer, and speaker who lives and gardens in Bedford, Iowa. He is the manager of his family's "Rainbow Iris Farm". Merlyn Neidens Heirloom seed grower and seed-saving expert who has developed some of the superb market varieties that we carry. He also writes articles for "The Heirloom Gardener". Always one of our most popular speakers. Patrick Byers of the SW MO Experiment Station. A highly acclaimed rare fruit specialist who will be speaking about raising rare fruit and berries. The Heirloom Garden Show "The Historic Living Fest" Come to our 7th Annual Spring Fest! August 5 & 6, (Sun. & Mon.) 2007. 10 am-6 pm both days Come to our 8th Annual Summer Show...See MoreBaker Creek Seeds in Mansfield
Comments (6)Christie_SW_MO, How are you? Go for the Blacktail Mountain Watermelon. It is Amy Goldman's favorite for flavor and she should know, she wrote this book: Melons for the Passionate Grower, has been growing melons for years, and is great friends with Martha Stewart. She has appeared on Martha's show at least three times where she's shown melons and her garden. She has also spoken at Baker Creek, I saw her and her slides were amazing. Amy Goldman's Website. Here is a link that might be useful: Amy Goldman and Blacktail Watermelon...See MoreBaker Creek Heirloom Seed Store.....
Comments (7)Jay, And you just know that I love going out there and fighting to get all that evil bermuda grass out of my lovely red clay. LOL If I had to choose (and I did, which is how we ended up with clay) between the three main types of soil common in Love County (dense red clay, almost pure sand, and rocky limestone soil), I'd choose clay because of the issues that gardeners here have with root knot nematodes in their sandy soil, but clay sure is hard to break and improve, especially clay that is mainly growing either bermuda grass or Johnson grass. I hope to break up three different areas this winter and plant in them next spring. One is clay with a little bit of sand mixed in with it, so I hope it is not quite as dense and hard as the soil where the existing garden was built. Another is pretty sandy, so it only needs lots and lots of organic matter added. The third area is the same type of horrible red clay we have around the house and main garden. Hopefully, we'll be able to break that clay, improve it and grow something edible from Baker Creek in it next year. Carol, Since I haven't visited Baker Creek twice this year like someone here has (hee hee), there were a few things I needed and/or wanted. Since it has been several days, I don't remember everything I ordered but I did order Sungold Select II like Jay did, and Stewart's Zeebest okra, which I've wanted to try for some time now. I think I ordered some melons and squash because most of the melon and squash seeds I have left in my seedbox date back to 2003 or 5 or 7 (I guess I was buying only in odd-numbered years) and I needed some fresher seed. I'll still plant the older ones, but I'll have the newer ones in case the 2003 and 2005 ones don't germinate terribly well. Dorothy, Don't forget broccoli! I've already got broccoli seed for next year (Packman, I think) because I remember well the trouble you had last spring. The seedracks in the stores here always have some sort of Burpee broccoli seed and I don't like their broccoli varieties, so I have to order in the fall to be ready to start seeds in winter. It seems like broccoli that does well for us here is getting harder and harder to find. Y'all, I am sitting here looking at the Irish Eyes print catalog from last year and guess what? They will sell you "Discount Bulk Organic Seed Potatoes" with price breaks if you buy in lots of 100, 500, 1000 or 2000 lbs. Does anyone need seed potatoes in those amounts? And, can you imagine the shipping? I bought 2 5-lb. bags of mixed fingerling potatoes at CostCo today and they were less than $6 a bag. Fingerling seed potatoes usually run about $8 to $10 a lb. from seed potato companies so even though I don't know the exact vareties of fingerlings in the mixed bags, the price was right--slightly more that $1 per pound. I bet I can look at the fingerlings and compare them to the photos in the seed catalogs and figure out what I have in that mix because there aren't that many fingerling varieties available (as compared to, say, regular potatoes). Dawn...See MoreTrishcuit
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