vegetable garden seedlings

[richards1052]

To those of you who maintain your own herb & veggie gardens, remember that this weekend is the Arboretum Fdn's Spring Plant Sale at Sand Pt. Naval Air Station. There's a great selection of heirloom tomatoes and many other veggies & herbs plus thousands of other wonderful plant offerings.

[laurel]

And the weekend after is the Seattle Tilth Edible Plant Sale. More info at http://seattletilth.org/

[girl chow]

Excellent. Thanks for the postings. I've scored a purple calabash and a few other heirloom starts from a friend... and my early girl starts are looking very perky.

I'm curious, though, what other heirloom starts they'll sell at these plant shows. Any idea?

[laurel]

Seattle tilth has a list of vegetables on their site. Looks like there are about 40 kinds of tomatoes, including a whole "odd colored" section.

[mb7o]

i went to the arboretum sale today. they have a huge representation of ornamentals, from the somewhat unusual (carniverous plants, succulents) to conifers and other native plants. only two of the vendors (it's set up to have a lot of vendors, though with very little overlap) sold edible plants.

the veggie vendors were Langley Fine Gardens (Vashon) and Homegrown Edibles (Seattle).

my memory of the tilth sale is that they had a much larger edible selection.

[tsquare]

i went to the arboretum sale today. they have a huge representation of ornamentals, from the somewhat unusual (carniverous plants, succulents) to conifers and other native plants. only two of the vendors (it's set up to have a lot of vendors, though with very little overlap) sold edible plants.

the veggie vendors were Langley Fine Gardens (Vashon)  and Homegrown Edibles (Seattle).

my memory of the tilth sale is that they had a much larger edible selection.

I went too, since I'll be out of town for Tilth. Last year, Langley Fine Gardens tags were in all the tomato starts at Tilth. I don't know if the same arrangement is happening this year or not. The prices were $0.25 less at Tilth I think. But the crowds were larger and the check out can be maddening.

Rent's Due has starts at PCC for quite a bit less ($1.49 versus $2.25?), but less variety in tomatoes. But the have lots of other starts such as peas, squash, greens, cauliflower and broccoli, etc.