All this change means a lot of
copy/paste and find/replace and not all has gone as smoothly as I
had hoped. If you find an error or a page that is 404, please let
me know. Also I haven't had a chance to edit the sidebars on the
individual variety pages and some of the non-tomato pages. Those
sidebars will bring up the old pages which I've left up for now.
A payment up-date. If you don't like
PayPal, I can also take credit card payments with Square. But not
directly from the cart. If you want to use Square select "check"
from the cart, then give me an email with your request so I can
send you a Square invoice.
I have the seed pages updated for the
new varieties and new seed collected this year. Due to the lousy
weather much of the growing season we didn't get large amounts of
seed for very many varieties. But we did get at least some seed
for lots of varieties. There are 40+ new or relisted varieties
this year.
Feb 2018. I finally got the variety
pages fully updated for new varieties and new germination
tests. I fell and broke my wrist Oct 2, 17. So typing has
been a challenge. We have 58 new-to-me varieties this year.
We retested all the older seeds and updated the rates and deleted
a few varieties that didn't test well this time.
Unfortunately due to the farm
bleeding money I had to raise the prices a bit. It's that or stop
doing the seeds at all.
PayPal has been a bit nutty lately,
(Nov-2016) flagging orders as "terrorist" or "restricted". They
don't understand Tomato names. Isis Candy and Cuban Black are 2
that have been flagged and I wouldn't doubt more could be. So I
will be going thru the whole site and adding the words "tomato
seeds" after ALL of the variety names on the part that goes to the
cart, which is what PayPal sees. Just email me if there is
any issue. Thanks for understanding.
The individual variety pages are now edited and all are up. So all
names that are links should have an info page. I do have some more
pages to make from scratch but that's for another day.
Please try to give me at least 2 weeks to get orders out. I hope
to be able to get things out quicker than that but, 2 weeks just
to be safe.
In Memorial
On the nite of 12/30/2013 my beloved Mom died suddenly.
We knew she had a condition that wasn't treatable and was a
ticking time bomb. But it's still a shock when it actually
happens. Although she was 92 and otherwise in good health for her
age, we always want life to last longer.
At the same time, this was the way she wanted to go. No prolonged
illness or mind fading away from Alzheimer's. She had seen too
much of that with the deaths of 2 husbands and her younger brother
and very recently with my Sister's husband from Alzheimer's.
She had been my best friend and helper all my life. As you can see
from a 2012 pic, she loved being at the farmers markets and she
actually helped out. She felt good about the fact that she was
still able to contribute.
Mom will be missed for a long time.
I do offer a few former hybrid varieties that were discontinued by
the seed companies and I've grown out and stabilized.
There is a lot of confusion between GMO and Hybrid seeds.
YES, ALL GMO seeds are Hybrids.
NO, not all Hybrids are GMO.
Hybrids come from crossing 2 varieties OF THE SAME TYPE. Bees (and
sometimes the wind) make natural hybrids when they visit plants
and mix the pollen of different varieties of the same type of
plant.
GMO Hybrids are MADE IN A LAB using genes from vastly different
species. Sometimes so different as to be plant / animal / insect /
bacteria. Nothing that could EVER happen in nature.
To the best of my knowledge there are no GMO tomato seeds. While
there are a few summer squash and zucchini varieties that are GMO,
I do NOT grow those. They are way too expensive and too legally
prohibitive for me to get.
Most, if not ALL GMO, seeds require that the seed distributor (big
company, not me) selling the seeds have the customer (you or I)
sign a legal document acknowledging that the seeds are "special"
and the customer is not allowed to save seeds from the crop grown.
Also most of those seeds are ONLY sold in large bulk amounts (like
50 lb bags of seed), in part so they don't get into the hands of
"home gardeners".
Here is our FaceBook page for
Knapp's
Fresh Vegies
All USA orders have a flat rate shipping of $4.00, except hot
sauce. Unfortunately since the post office has changed how they do
international orders I have to charge more for larger orders that
need a customs form. I'm trying to keep small orders reasonable
starting at $4.50 to Canada and $5.50 other international.
But for orders of about 8 packs or more I need to use a customs
form and then the post office no longer calls it an "envelope" but
classes it as a "package" for about 4 times the price. I will have
to be creative to make international orders look like a "card" so
I don't have to use the customs form and they will ship as a
"letter".
Some smaller orders are now shipped in a paper business sized
envelope or 6x10 "catalog" or "invitation" envelope with the seeds
wrapped in paper toweling. This is to keep them as a "letter" and
not a "Parcel". Not for the cheaper postage but because the Post
Office is randomly scanning parcels / packages for illegal Rx
drugs and the xrays can damage the seeds.
Something new for foreign customers that don't or can't use
PayPal. I recently had an order that sent the money by Western
Union. It was a bit of a challenge for me for that first one. But
now that I know how it works, it's a lot easier and faster than
physically sending a money order or money. On checkout select
"money order" and I will contact you about it.
I have the cart set-up so it does give a discount for larger
orders of 20 packs or more without having to email me for it.
I've also been working on using my
own pics, if I have them, instead of the stock variety pics from
the seed companies you see in every catalog. So far I've edited
and watermarked over 500 pics and have about 200 more to go.
Many of my own pics aren't all that good. But they do show the
variety in true "as grown" pics here on MY farm in Wisconsin.
As all this editing can involve a lot of cut / paste, I sometime
get quite bleary eyed. If something doesn't look right on a page
or if a variety doesn't come up right on an order, please give
me an email so I can find the error and get it corrected.
Due to the farm and market work,
seed orders from July til Nov will not get priority in my 'to
do' list. I just don't have the energy to keep up with orders
and farm work. From Dec til April or May I usually get
orders out in less than a week. But during summer, I may not
be able to do much if any orders at all. I will try to
take care of emergency orders if you give me a separate
email letting me know about it.
Feel free to email me if you need info about anything.
A good web page seems to be a never ending project of
updates.
Last edited 1/18/2021
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