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Sat, 20 Apr 24 5:31 AM | 81 view(s)
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My wife isn't sure how she got signed up for this, but I'm glad she did. We just received a free gardening catalog from rareseeds.com and it's a hoot. It's got 159 pages of vegetables and flowers that I've never seen before, and many of them are amazing. For instance, a cabbage that averages 17 to 37 lbs, up to 44 lbs. They show it next to a little boy (maybe 6 years old) and the thing is far wider than he is tall! Or carrots that are spherical. Or "bitter melon" that looks like a green eel. Or Chinese Pink Celery, Red Clover, Indian Snake Cucumber that you can drape around your neck like a scarf, corn with kernels of every color, gourds, ground cherries. You get the idea.

The cool thing is that these seeds are as cheap as Burpee seeds ($3 to $5 per envelope) but are heirloom and unusual. Maybe the stuff Burpee sells tastes better or is more productive, I really don't know, but if you're going to go to the trouble of gardening, why not grow both the conventional plants AND some that will make people's eyes pop?

For me, this year, I think it's too late to order new seeds, so I'll order a new catalog in January and get seriously experimental in 2025. I might even spend the $15 for a full catalog... four times the size.

The smaller catalog is quite nice . . . and free. If you're interested, order a copy.




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