Outsidepride

This company does sell seeds and they are *mostly* as advertised. Sometimes you get what you ordered and other times not so much. But they sell seeds in bulk at reasonable prices, just don’t expect them to be exactly what you ordered. Also, many of their seed packets are weedy.

Dreadful products and dreadful service. I was delivered lawn seed that had weeds in it. Called to ask for help rectifying the problem. At first, they simply didn’t respond, then when I finally got them, they were rude and said it was impossible that their seed had weed seed in it. I had a pro landscaper redo the lawn with seed from his vendor and the problem was resolved. He also tested the seed from
and dubbed it «subpar» and very likely to have been the source of our weed problem.
Avoid this company!

It ‘s raining in El Cerrito today. Probably will be raining again tomorrow.
Time to dance about the lawn with white clover seed. Bagfuls of little black seeds pouring out onto the brown dirt.
Today I am channeling the ghost of Isadora Duncan in a sopping wet sweatshirt and blue jeans.
I am Isadora dancing in the spring throwing fistfulls of seed all about the landscape.
Who cares if the neighbors laugh… we are the indigenous folk… the ones who have tilled the soil for nearly a century.
Long before their gardeners rolled up turf and laid it in geometric patterns on their prissy-​flat postage stamp yards.
Long before anyone anywhere had even dreamt of astro-​turf. (Or whatever that abrasive plastic stuff is called.) I’ve heard that the local football field will soon be covered with the stuff, I’m wondering about skinned knees and elbows.
It’s time to order another bag of white dutch clover from
and to joyously greet the mailman who knows exactly what the mysterious package contains.
Because he delivered white clover last year. And the year before. And the year before that.
All the way back to the time when the UPS driver (who is no longer working this gig)
Refused to deliver the package to the top of our stairs. Sent it instead to the library… where I dragged the burlap bag onto BART, dragged it up the hill, dragged it up the stairs
And sprinkled it about our yard in the rain.
So of course, on that long-​ago day, I called the folks at
who were… how shall I say this politely… adequately miffed.
After all, Outsidepride is a small family operation which takes pride in their seed products.
And the promptness of their delivery.
Now my mailman brings my seeds. Always with a story about how his lawn is doing. And which gophers, mice or snails are threatening his gardening efforts.
delivers his seeds, too. So… in an odd way, I guess we are all family. Or at least we have a common nursery.
Anyway…the seeds are here. Its time to sow.
This year I’m also planting creeping thyme in the driveway. (You can ask, but I may not say…)
And asparagus fern seed on the hilltop. So the newby neighbors will have something to look at from their plastic lawnchairs.
Thanks,
…I know our old house is a little seedy.
But then again, in a week or two…
Once again it will be green.