So, they grow vegetables themselves and sell off what they don't plant in May? What kind of veggies do you plant in May? Tomatoes and peppers, eggplant? I guess they don't sell cold weather crops that late. What are your favorites that you are hooked on?

My favorite place is long gone. A backyard greenhouse operation, sort of. Doing enough business to hire help. Frankly, most places offer a boring assortment of annuals and vegetables and seem to be focusing on expensive Proven Winners. My current favorite is another backyard gardener who even has single plants at a reasonable price (70 cents for tomato seedlings). She sends out a plant list so you have to pre-order. She lives on a back road and her neighbors don't like the extra traffic. Pick up is on two specified weekends. Then she sells leftovers at the farmers markets. She's also a garden writer for the local newspaper her in NH. If you were near Hanover NH I would highly recommend Edgewater Farm in Plainfield. Found it while on a trip to King Arthur Flour in Norwich VT.

I attended a workshop last year by a tomato grower in Dunbarton NH. He grows about 150 varieties for area restaurants but sells maybe two dozen varieties to the public. Website: Rusty's Tomatoes. Puts a sign up by the road when he has plants to sell.

I'm lucky to be able to get the basics here in town but I've gone hunting for Lemon Gem marigolds after discovering them at the long gone place. Tiny edible flowers, lemon scented lacey foliage. Delightful. Sometimes I've been able to get them at Spring Ledge Farm in New London NH but I also found them at Edgewater. I don't know why they aren't a popular annual.

Defrost - it's the same in this area, very boring assortments and a lot of Proven Winners. Some nurseries sell very few six packs any more, which was the most economical way to buy. I started all my own last year, but this year it was out of the question, so, I hope to check out a few new nurseries.

I also love those Lemon Gem Marigolds, thanks for the reminder, I'll have to look for them.

That reminds me I used to buy starts at Green Mountain Transplants in ME. We'd stop there on the way to Ogunquit and they sold little plugs that were very inexpensive, they also had a great selection, but…the company was on the disorganized side and sometimes it was hit or miss.

It's a bit early here - my veggie garden had only just emerged from the snow this past week, and we will get a fair recoating today and tomorrow, so I figure it will be a couple of weeks yet before I can plant.

My favorite place is Cavarretta Gardens on route 4 in Northwood, NH, right near the town transfer station. Small family run operation, and usually has a good variety of types, both in 6-packs and in small pots. The only thing he regularly doesn't carry that I would prefer is the oriental type of eggplants. He doesn't have a huge number of early crops since many of those are greens, but I generally grow most of my early crops from seed.

Snow has been gone for over a week here. Yesterday it was sunny, comfortable and we were able to turn over the soil in the raised beds, so they are ready to go. I'm looking at the 10 day forecast and once we get past the 6th of April, it looks like we stay in the 50s for the high of the day and by the 10th, we are consistently in the 40s for low of the day. So, we're getting there.

Putting in some peas, lettuce, bok choy, etc, can be done any time after Sunday, I imagine, as it doesn't appear to get close to freezing again for the lows. I have a lot of seed, just didn't get to start any of them. [g] I probably will start some from seed, but I'm sure I can find a few six packs of lettuce and bok choy and kale somewhere. I had a very pretty dark red kale last year, that I started from seed, that I hope I can find something similar in 6 packs.

I find that in my area too. Everyone offers the warm season veggies, not a lot of early veggie crops. Thanks :-)