Pinetree Garden Seeds catalog 2010 – review Part 1
18th November, 2009 - Posted by shawn - 1 Comment
I spent about an hour looking through the new Pinetree Garden Seeds catalog and made some quick notes and started my wish list. Below are some of the things I wrote down. If you’d like to get your own Pinetree Garden Seeds catalog, visit their website here or call them at 207-926-3400.
- When I get a new seed catalog, I like to read it cover to cover if time permits so that means I start on the inside cover page. I found it very refreshing that the folks at Pinetree recommend people to fellow Maine seed suppliers Fedco Seeds and Johnny’s Selected Seeds if you need large quantities. You won’t see Burpee recommending you go to someone else for something special. A big green thumbs up to Pinetree for this.
- Lulu the cat makes only one appearance in this catalog that I saw, on page 2 being held by Sally. She was on the cover last year.
- Wish list item: White Albino Beets on page 8 ($1.50) Just curious about a white beet and whether I can get great beet taste without ruining all my kitchen towels with red stain.
- Wish list item: Gourds of all kinds from pages 15 and 16. I’m particularly fond of the goblin eggs.
- Wish list item: Pumpkins of all kinds from pages 24 and 25 and the pumpkin decorating book by Vicki Rhodes with a nice price of $2.99.
- Wish list item: Hailstone radish (.95 – no that is not a typo) on page 25. Just sounds neat.
- A must try tomato – Matt’s Wild Cherry ($1.50) on page 32. I have been growing these small cherry tomatoes since my very first garden and they are by far my favorite. The seeds are hard to locate some years, but I was happy to see Pinetree added them for this year. The thing is, these plants are so wild and prolific that they will self sow year after year. All I do is dig up a cup full of soil where the overripe fruit has falled and use that to sprout next year’s plants. Believe me plenty of seeds will germinate. Plus you will also get many rogue plants in your garden to. Funny how the ones in the garden (without all that indoor starting) fruit at the very same time the pampered ones do. Makes you wonder why you go to the trouble?
- Wish list: Cutting celery ($1.15) page 39. I have tried many times to grow this and have only ever had two plants survive. Anybody have any suggestions on how to get this stuff to stay alive past the transplanting stage? Peat pots maybe?
- Wish list: Pineapple Tomatillo ($1.10) on page 44. We grew this once before but didn’t have time to process the fruit so we’d like to try again. We found ours tasted more like strawberries than pineapple, but they were tasty.
Enough dreaming for now, more items of interest later including a first for me – tobacco. Never saw it offered before.