Yes, we know all about the catalogs and the pondering that happens each January, along with the flurry of ordering. If you’re a gardener, you’ve wrapped all that up and have the seed packets in hand.
So where are your favorite sources? And why?
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Oh please tell me where! I’m so new here and I need to help the yard reach its PO-tential but I have no idea where to go and who to ask and what will grow. Veg, herbs, flowers please – the shrubs can follow 🙂
Part of the answer depends on where you’re living, since some suppliers focus on what does best in a certain climate. In New England, for instance, we rely a lot on FEDCO, a Maine-based cooperative that knows what works well here … and has rock-bottom prices. The catalogue itself is quite informative. Pinetree Seeds in another one we trust. (A Google search will find them and likely some others.)
Local nurseries can also be quite helpful, especially the smaller ones that are in it out of a love of growing things. Bluebell in Lee, New Hampshire, is one of our favorites.
We’ve gotten some good tips from just walking around town and chatting with folks whose gardens we admire or from plant sales that some churches and the like hold in late April or early May.
But you have me curious about how one goes about this in places like France.
Hope you have fun, however you go.
IN France, in my bit of France because though she is small in comparison she is still the largest country in Western Europe and quite – quite spread. IN France I go to markets in the various villages and towns and I go to garden centres but mostly I talk and make friends and I find what I need and I get introduced to things I didn’t know about. In England there are remnants of markets and there are garden centres and there are online lovelies doing stuff that would have been the village market before it was obliterated. Fun is what you make of this – a state of mind that isi n the beholder. I think.