Jackpine Radical Gardening

Fedco Seeds out of Maine -great educational catalog that uses a real artist 🙂 https://www.fedcoseeds.com/
High Mowing Organic Seed out of Vermont https://www.highmowingseeds.com/

But you might want to consider a seed company that’s located similar to your growing zone or latitude. The good seed companies work hard to test, grow, and cultivate varieties for their geography. I’ve used Johnny’s for about 10 years very successfully. They are located in Maine which has very similar growing season to Minnesota.

Sow True Seeds, Seed Savers Exchange, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. I have some lovage and dwarf moringa that I can send you. Send me your address in a private message.

Thanks, all, i will check these places out!! 😉

https://heritageorganicseeds.com/

whose farmer is so basic/organic if you will that he plows with horses. No machines allowed.  I know that he subscribes to a lot of seed catalogues / seed exchanges that are extremely ‘pristine’….I’ll ask him what he would recommend but it will take time to get back to you…..One you may or may not have heard of is ‘Johnny’s Seeds’…but I…[Read more]

I was gonna look through it today, as it’s that kind of day where you dream of your next garden. I opened it up right to the page starting with Chervil, and that seed did not have the “OG” indicator, but you can at least delineate which ones are organic, as they are clearly marked. I’ve had very good luck with most of what I’ve purchased.

It’s…[Read more]

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Spray animal repellant, chicken wire cages around some plants, and keep my fingers crossed.
Dogs are good protection against most four legged critters, but the garden is at my neighbors’…. and they don’t like dogs.
I’m familiar with those sensor “booby trap” sprayers. They work good on deer and nosey…[Read more]

Nothing stops the deer if they’re in your neighborhood. They seem to have developed an immunity to all the sprays, and if they’re hungry enough(which they always get that way ’cause there’s too damned many of them) they’ll eat everything except ferns and other “deer-resistant” plants.

And I can’t even shoot them. We’ve given up.

I have few problems with my garden that is enclosed by cyclone fence.

Around here the critters are such big eaters that I see suburban home owners actually constructing complete enclosures, covered with screening. I might take some pictures of them and post them. It’s really pretty amazing how far people go around here to have a garden.

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I have a deer spray that I use that is peppermint based. It also keeps groundhogs away. Spray it and it lasts about 30 days.  However this is not a good option for crops like lettuce. The best kind IMO is Deer Out. All of the deer sprays, however, are expensive, as it is $38 a bottle. This, however, will prol’ly last you the rest of your life.…[Read more]

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Hire a big dog, no joke!