Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Thanks,
Gene

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Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

Additionally, where is a good place to buy bulk
vegetable seeds in the NW Austin area?

Thanks,
Gene



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Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Thanks,
Gene

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Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:45:59 -0600, "Gene S"
wrote:

Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Just to nitpick - those are fruits ;-)

-sw

Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

LOL - I'll concede watermelon & cantaloupe, but hold
out on the cucumber, still think it's a veggie :-)



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"Steve Wertz" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:45:59 -0600, "Gene S"
wrote:

Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Just to nitpick - those are fruits ;-)

-sw

Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:12:56 -0600, "Gene S"
wrote:

LOL - I'll concede watermelon & cantaloupe, but hold
out on the cucumber, still think it's a veggie :-)

Nah, it's a fruit. Think of it as a thin skinned melon. The
dictionay refers to it as fruit, but it's unclear whether is used as
in, i.e. "The fruit of my loins".

It sees like it would be closely related to a melon, to me.

-sw

Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

I've been 10-cent Burpee seed packets at Walmart, and IIRC also 25-cent
packets. Bought a bunch, as a matter of fact. Expect low seed counts,
however.

"Gene S" wrote in message
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Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Thanks,
Gene

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Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

Thanks.
Yeah, I went to WallyMart first, as I had seen them
there earlier. Unfortunately, the two stores I went
to only had the $1 stuff. I think I'll just go to some
feed stores & try & find some cheap bulk stuff...

Gene



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"SlinkyToy" wrote in message
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I've been 10-cent Burpee seed packets at Walmart, and IIRC also 25-cent
packets. Bought a bunch, as a matter of fact. Expect low seed counts,
however.

"Gene S" wrote in message
...
Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Thanks,
Gene

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Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

"Gene S" wrote in
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Thanks.
Yeah, I went to WallyMart first, as I had seen them
there earlier. Unfortunately, the two stores I went
to only had the $1 stuff. I think I'll just go to some
feed stores & try & find some cheap bulk stuff...

Big Lots (formerly MacFrugal) has cheap seed packets.

Karen

Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

The closest one of those I know of in the Northwest Austin area is at 183 &
McNeil in the shopping center on the Southwest corner -- impossible not to
see from 183 heading South.

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"Gene S" babbled and bored us in
:

Thanks.
Yeah, I went to WallyMart first, as I had seen them
there earlier. Unfortunately, the two stores I went
to only had the $1 stuff. I think I'll just go to some
feed stores & try & find some cheap bulk stuff...

Gene



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"SlinkyToy" wrote in message
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I've been 10-cent Burpee seed packets at Walmart, and IIRC also 25-cent
packets. Bought a bunch, as a matter of fact. Expect low seed counts,
however.

"Gene S" wrote in message
...
Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Thanks,
Gene

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Or you could do what I do and practice practical gardening genetics....in the
past I have gone to the market and picked only the best, biggest and tastyest
green peppers, tomatoes, and such and then started the seeds myself.

Especially helps if you get Grown In Texas produce as they have been already
genetically modified to grow here.

They grow inches a day if you have everything just right and if you do it now
they'll be strong and big enough to plant next month.

hth

mapi

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Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

Karen babbled and bored us in
.158:

"Gene S" wrote in
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Thanks.
Yeah, I went to WallyMart first, as I had seen them
there earlier. Unfortunately, the two stores I went
to only had the $1 stuff. I think I'll just go to some
feed stores & try & find some cheap bulk stuff...

Big Lots (formerly MacFrugal) has cheap seed packets.

Karen


Yah, and did you know there is one on 183 North near Spicewood springs road
on the southern side????

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The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves and the
less they work, the more their poverty will increase.--Leo Tolstoy
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Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

Anything that has a seed in it is defined as a fruit...me thinks. Cucumber
is a fruit.

"Gene S" wrote in message
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LOL - I'll concede watermelon & cantaloupe, but hold
out on the cucumber, still think it's a veggie :-)



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"Steve Wertz" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:45:59 -0600, "Gene S"
wrote:

Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Just to nitpick - those are fruits ;-)

-sw

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Xref: 127.0.0.1 austin.gardening:19432 austin.forsale:191898

You can buy packets of maroon carrot seeds from the Texas A&M website..

Maroon bluebonnetts too..


"SlinkyToy" wrote in message
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I've been 10-cent Burpee seed packets at Walmart, and IIRC also 25-cent
packets. Bought a bunch, as a matter of fact. Expect low seed counts,
however.

"Gene S" wrote in message
...
Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Thanks,
Gene

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Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

So green beans are fruit?

Crickets! wrote:
Anything that has a seed in it is defined as a fruit...me thinks. Cucumber
is a fruit.

"Gene S" wrote in message
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LOL - I'll concede watermelon & cantaloupe, but hold
out on the cucumber, still think it's a veggie :-)



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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:45:59 -0600, "Gene S"
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Where is a good place to buy garden vegetable seed packets
in the north Austin area? (Watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, etc...)
Like the $.10 & .25 packets I saw last year:-)

Just to nitpick - those are fruits ;-)

-sw

Inexpensive vegetable seed source?
 

Crickets! wrote:
Anything that has a seed in it is defined as a fruit...me thinks. Cucumber
is a fruit.

According to Webster's:
Fruit
n. pl. fruit or fruits
The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory
parts, containing the seeds and ocurring in a wide variety of forms
An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure

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