Early Look at 2023?

[Stitchingmom]

@GoDawgs "I ran out of room"

After succumbing to that same...um...condition this past season (DISCLOSURE: Not_The_First_TIME!), I thought I was on the Road To Recovery.

Until the Tomato Growers Supply catalog showed up today.

On just the cover: Solar Flare, Pink Delicious, Dark Star, Polbig.

The kicker? They weren't even photos, they were freakin' drawing/renderings!

It gets worse.

I started thumbing through it...

The Gotch

I discovered Nikitovka's today. I "only" bought 100+ tomato seed varieties this year. My cart "only" has 127 items....and I'm only halfway through the tomatoes. I don't have any idea what I am growing in the spring, but I am trying to move to year-round growing, so I am working on my winter choices. I feel dizzy.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

@Stitchingmom;

"I discovered Nikitovka's today."

Oy gevalt! Here we go again.........

"I feel dizzy."



The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Just mentioned Nikitovka's to the lovely and long-suffering Mrs. Gotch, and a few...um...varieties I was thinking of adding to the mix (Altai Orange, Hillbilly, Beauty King, Big Rainbow, etc., etc., etc.)

She's looking into putting a Tomato Seed Site filter on my desktop...

The Gotch

[habitat-gardener]

Just mentioned Nikitovka's to the lovely and long-suffering Mrs. Gotch, and a few...um...varieties I was thinking of adding to the mix (Altai Orange, Hillbilly, Beauty King, Big Rainbow, etc., etc., etc.)

She's looking into putting a Tomato Seed Site filter on my desktop...

The Gotch

If you look at the Delivery page at Nikitovka, you'll learn that they recommend getting a free USDA Small Lots of Seeds permit. To get pepper or tomato seeds from anywhere outside the US involves an expensive Phytosanitary certificate. You can still order, but there's a chance the USDA will catch it and confiscate the seeds. "Orders without a permit or phytosanitary certificate are to your own risk."
https://nikitovka.com/en/content/1-delivery

I'd been keeping a list of tomatoes I wanted from Nikitovka but kept telling myself I had enough seeds. By the time I actually made an order, the note about the SLS permit was there. It was easy to get the permit. I ordered from them a couple months ago (everything except nightshades! and I added a seed pack for a Ukrainian family). iirc the order took 3 weeks to reach the local USDA inspection station and another 3 weeks to reach me.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

@habitat-gardener; thanks for the heads up!

Except for Altai Orange, I found all the above mentioned (sigh!) varieties in the currently très dog-eared Tomato Growers Supply catalog.

The Gotch