FEDCO 1978-2008 30 Years of Spring Fiction 2 Ordering information Fedco Goods offered Descriptions Order Discount Ordering Shipments Division begin form deadline deadline Seeds vegetables, flowers, & herbs page 11 page 70A none mail & fax: Mar. 21 January 8–April online only: Aug. 29 January 8–Sept. Moose Tubers seed potatoes, onion sets page 99 page 70C February 22 March 14 early April–early May Organic soil amendments, cover crops, page 107 page 70E none none year-round Growers Supply tools, supplies & books Our FEDCO TREES catalog, available in October, lists fruit trees, berry bushes, ornamentals, perennials and tender bulbs. Our FEDCO BULBS catalog, available in June, lists fall-planted flowerbulbs and garlic. Full Index on Back Cover Fedco Facilitation A Fedco Primer for New Friends and Old phone: (207) 873-7333 Fedco has four divisions: Seeds, Moose Tubers and Organic Growers email: [email protected] Supply, Trees, and Bulbs, and sends out three catalogs annually. We work out •Regular phone hours: Jan.-April, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. We are of two warehouses on the Bellsqueeze Road in Clinton, Maine. Our business available at irregular hours the rest of the year. Contact us to: office is in nearby Waterville. We do not have a retail store. We deal • Request more catalogs or order forms exclusively by mail, fax and internet orders except during designated pickup • Get answers to ordering questions and public sale days, our annual excursion to the Common Ground Country • Receive freight quotes and prices for bulk Fair, and periodic visits to other special events. quantities for Moose Tubers & In our part of the world frosts can occur nine months of the year and the Organic Growers Supply ground remains frozen for about five months from late November until • Get your growing questions answered mid-April. • Track your order Trees are alive, highly perishable, must be kept cool and wet and cannot • Resolve problems freeze. We ship trees and perennial plants only in the spring. We ask your cooperation in helping us hold prices down by Fall bulbs and garlic are alive, perishable, need to be kept cool but cannot avoiding the following calls or emails which add to our labor freeze. We ship only in fall just before planting time. costs without offering you any benefits: Seed potatoes and onion sets are alive, perishable, must be kept cool but • Frozen spuds: We cannot ship potatoes until April cannot freeze. We ship only in April and May. because we do not have a potato storage facility. Seed stock arrives at Seeds are alive, dormant, must be kept cool and the end of March. dry, may freeze if kept dry. We ship peak-season • Nervous Neds & Nellies: For seeds and supplies please allow at least 2-3 orders in winter/early spring. From April-Aug. weeks after sending order before calling. For spuds, see above. we ship internet orders only. • Order corrections: For one or a few mistakes please mail or fax back the Books and supplies are not alive. We ship correction form on the back of your pick sheet instead of calling. year-round. We ship cover crops, which are • Deadline dilemmas: At, around, or just past deadlines, please send in your alive, year-round when available. order. We’ll do the best we can. Please do not call. • Way past deadlines: We take order deadlines seriously. Please remember How to Order the refrain of the old Brooklyn Dodger fans and “Wait till next year!” Mail your order to Fedco Seeds, PO Box 520, Waterville, ME 04903. Please do not use certified or express mail—they delay our receipt of your order. Visit our Website: www.fedcoseeds.com Fax your order to (207) 872-8317. Fax orders pay a $2 handling • to order online. charge. • to download paper order forms. • for up-to-date information on backorders and out-of-stocks for all Order online at www.fedcoseeds.com. divisions. • to see photos of some of our cultivars All orders must include check, money order, or Visa or MasterCard information. We request that orders under $25 pay with a check or money Faxing your Order order. Please do not send cash. Sorry, we do not accept food stamps. • Use our fax line: (207) 872-8317. • Include a phone number where we can reach you. We do not call to We will charge your credit card when we ship your order. We will bill or confirm receipt of faxes; if there’s a problem, we’ll let you know. refund you for any adjustments as each order is completed. We do not charge • Please use our order form or a properly formatted computerized form. the adjustments to your credit card. • Make sure your order is legible; faxes lose clarity in transmission. • Be sure to include your credit card number and expiration date. Because they work out of separate warehouses and/or have separate shipping • Please total your order even though you are using a credit card. Your schedules, each division has its own order form. totals help us check our data entry. • Please do not fax us the same order more than once unless we call • Please use the proper order form for each division. requesting a clearer copy. We don’t want to fill your order twice. • Please do not mix orders from separate divisions on one form. • Please do not mail a copy after you fax your order. • You may send in separate forms from more than one division at the same time and pay with one check. Figure totals for each division on the proper Original art: John Bunker, Gene Frey, Jennifer Jones, form, then add division totals to figure your grand total. Samantha Jones,Wendy Karush, Jocelyn Langer, Rachel O’Meara, Bria Sanborn, Sam Sanborn, Pippa Stanley, Sue Szwed, Gabriel Willow How Not to Order Seeds copy: CR Lawn • Sorry, we do not accept telephone orders. Seeds cultivar selection: • Sorry, we do not have a rush order service. Roberta Bailey, • You may not combine orders from different divisions to qualify for Nikos Kavanya, discounts or to avoid small-order handling charge. CR Lawn • We will return illegible or difficult-to-collate orders. We will mail you the Moose Tubers copy: Nancy Reitze proper order form so you can try again. OGS copy: David Shipman Editors: Susan Kiralis, Fedco Gift Certificates Kelly Payson-Roopchand Send us payment for the amount of the Layout: Gene Frey, certificate, the name of the recipient and Bria Sanborn where to send the certificate. We will send it right away. Fedco gift certificates may be used to order from any of our divisions. Cover cartoon courtesy of the Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine. First published April 6, 1934. 3 How to Order Seeds Delivery • Order online or use our 2008 seed order form in the UPS/Priority Mail center, page 70A. Please, no lists. • Free shipping for seed orders over $30 (items 100-6499) in the continental • Order books and cover crop seed from Organic Growers United States. AK, HI and APO/FPO add 15% of order total. Supply, see p. 4. • We ship via UPS ground or USPS Priority Mail; our choice, based on weight. New This Year • We pull and ship orders according to the date we receive them. • If you’d like us to hold your order for a later shipping date, please attach a • Brassica section upgraded and re-arranged note to your order form. for greater convenience. • Email facilitation: [email protected]. • We will not ship any orders before Jan. 8. See also below. • We ship orders as soon as possible, often within one week of receipt, always • We no longer list approximate seed counts for each within two weeks. variety. • Missing your shipment? Allow three weeks from your mailing date, then call. • To save on shipping costs, no backorders for one A-size item. PICKUP Come to our warehouse in Clinton. See the map on page 4. Deadline Seeds and OGS pickup peak season We will send a • Peak-season orders (by mail, fax & internet) accepted confirmation postcard with directions and your order number when your order thru Fri. Mar. 21. is ready to pick up (within 1-2 weeks of receipt of order). Pick up during • Off-peak orders by internet only until Aug. 29 (limited regular warehouse hours, Wednesdays and Fridays only through April 18, selection, prices good till Aug. 29, 2008. 2009 9:00-4:00. Sorry, no other weekdays or weekends, except Tree Sale. catalog comes out in December.) Tree Sale pickup Friday & Saturday, Apr. 25-26 (preorder customers only), and May 2-3 (Public Tree Sale), 9:00-3:00 each day. Order by April 11. Discounts Seeds and OGS pickup off-peak season After the Tree Sale, All discounts are figured from the adjusted total on your order Wednesdays only, 9:00-4:00. sheet. Backorders are items not available at time of shipment which come Volume discounts: in later. Our aim is to minimize them. Orders over $100 deduct 10% • For orders with only one A-size backorder we will automatically out-of- Orders over $200 deduct 15% stock the item. Orders over $300 deduct 20% • Early orders receive the most backorders. Orders over $600 deduct 22% • We ship backorder items needing an early start ASAP after we receive them. Orders over $1000 deduct 24% • We batch other backorder items to reduce our shipping costs. Repeat orders over $50 qualify for the same volume discount as • Allow several weeks after receipt of your first shipment for direct-seeded the first order, provided they are to be sent to the same backorder items.