Black Duck Deals via Amazon has
30-pk Deluxe Valley Greene Heirloom Non-GMO Vegetable Garden Seeds on sale for
$9.99.
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Includes:- Burpee Stringless Green Pod Garden Bean
- Topnotch Golden Wax Garden Bean
- Detroit Dark Red Beet
- Calabrese Green Sprouting Broccoli
- Nantes Coreless Carrots
- Cubanelle Pepper
- Stowell's Evergreen Sweetcorn
- Country Gentleman Sweetcorn
- Table Queen Squash
- Chicago Pickling Cucumber
- Marketmore 76 Cucumber
- White Spine Cucumber
- Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
- Beefsteak Tomato
- Garlic Chives
- Green Arrow Peas
- Keystone Resistant Giant Pepper
- Rutgers Tomato
- Jack O' Lantern Pumpkin
- Champion Radish
- Golden Bantam Sweetcorn
- Parris Island Cos Lettuce
- Cherry Tomato
- Purple Top White Globe Turnip
- Seven Top Turnip
- Black Beauty Zucchini Squash
- Early Scarlet Globe Radish
- Bloomsdale Longstanding Spinach
- Early Prolific Straightneck Squash
- Buttercrunch Lettuce
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I also believe keeping heirloom varieties alive is vitally important, so please don't be discouraged by the claims made about heirloom vs. hybrid in this post. Most gardeners would disagree.
There is also a great resource at freeheirloomseeds.org for more variety and ability to pick and choose.
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First of all, a garden that could actually grow all of these plants would be gigantic. Like the size of an entire suburban back yard. Corn, squash, and pumpkins are gigantic. Meanwhile tomatoes and peppers require a lot of attention, and peas need something to climb on. If you just plant all of these a foot apart in a garden bed you are in for a giant pain in the neck.
The other thing is the "heirloom" angle. Heirlooms are NOT better tasting. If they were, we would have no reason for hybrids as they are more complicated to cultivate. Look through a seed catalog and you will find that the most productive plants with the best fruit are all hybrids. I grow a hybrid cherry tomato that is hard to believe how sweet it is. I really couldn't care less if I can save the seeds or not.
If you are looking to get into gardening, go to Home Depot and buy Burpee seeds for like 4 or 6 vegetables that you really like and are easy to grow, like snap peas or cherry tomatoes. Don't buy a 30 pack that includes corn and pumpkins.
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First of all, a garden that could actually grow all of these plants would be gigantic. Like the size of an entire suburban back yard. Corn, squash, and pumpkins are gigantic. Meanwhile tomatoes and peppers require a lot of attention, and peas need something to climb on. If you just plant all of these a foot apart in a garden bed you are in for a giant pain in the neck.
The other thing is the "heirloom" angle. Heirlooms are NOT better tasting. If they were, we would have no reason for hybrids as they are more complicated to cultivate. Look through a seed catalog and you will find that the most productive plants with the best fruit are all hybrids. I grow a hybrid cherry tomato that is hard to believe how sweet it is. I really couldn't care less if I can save the seeds or not.
If you are looking to get into gardening, go to Home Depot and buy Burpee seeds for like 4 or 6 vegetables that you really like and are easy to grow, like snap peas or cherry tomatoes. Don't buy a 30 pack that includes corn and pumpkins.
I also believe keeping heirloom varieties alive is vitally important, so please don't be discouraged by the claims made about heirloom vs. hybrid in this post. Most gardeners would disagree.
There is also a great resource at freeheirloomseeds.org for more variety and ability to pick and choose.
I also believe keeping heirloom varieties alive is vitally important, so please don't be discouraged by the claims made about heirloom vs. hybrid in this post. Most gardeners would disagree.
There is also a great resource at freeheirloomseeds.org for more variety and ability to pick and choose.
If heirlooms are your thing, have fun, I respect you and will buy one of your zebra striped green tomatoes from your stand. But for this company to market "heirloom" seeds as superior for a new gardener is a bunch of crap (and I promise you anyone buying this set is a new gardener, no one who actually has the bandwidth to grow 30 things in a season will use these cheap seeds). The second image on this posting is a major bunch of crap. All hybrids are, is someone at a university breeding two heirloom tomatoes together to get something that is even better than the heirlooms were, except they can't reproduce anymore. Usually the "better" is that it's easier to get produce, and you get more of it. But beyond that if you want the sweetest tomato or the earliest peas or the crunchiest jalapeno, you are probably looking at a hybrid.
I actually think your "three sisters" combo idea is really cool, and seeds should absolutely be sold that way to jump-start some learning. But a 30 pack? Take your two 4x10 garden bed scenario. People are going to excitedly plant their jack-o-lanterns and look forward to Halloween, and their learning process will primarily be how one pumpkin plant will choke out 10 of the other things they planted, because it takes up 1/4 of their garden space for the entire season, and its leaves are the size of dinner plates.
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