List of seed varieties to keep away from

Update to my experience with Southern Exposure Seeds:
After the absolutely INCREDIBLE summer crop I had with all of my seeds (I supported this company ONLY this year), except spinach, I tried, for the very first time, a winter garden. Put in two types of turnips, onions, spinach (the third try was to be my final but BOY OH BOY do I have LOVELY spinach and can't blame the company for the rabbits or my inexperience with germinating this crop), beets, and peas, you just would not believe how wonderful my garden is growing.
I admit, I wussed late summer, and on a whim and urgent desire to plant SOMETHING (I had placed an order for my seeds the same day-need discipline, methinks), I bought some Burpee lettuce seeds which are quite the disappointment due to failure to thrive as my Southern seeds have! In fact, after inadvertently burying some old lettuce seeds (SESE spring seeds) when I did a bit of cultivating, the Southern lettuce seeds have SHAMED the Burpee seeds.

I can see the heath of the Southern seeds vs. Burpees (I have tried Burpee seeds for other crops in the past), and it would take an act of God to make me stray from SESE. In fact, I did something that was horrible when putting in the fall crops...based on my experience with the non SESE seeds, I planted extra seeds, and had the WORST TIME thinning them out...oh, I'll caution you to NOT DO THIS if you do buy from them! I had forests of seedlings...and what a painful decision on what ONE seedling to keep and which MILLIONS (it seemed) to yank...!

Gracye, I enjoy Southern Exposure Seeds as well. Burpees used to be better (I think) than they are now. The same with a few of the rose nurseries. What my grandmother loved about the old nurseries is now gone.

I'm not trying to tempt you away from Southern Exposure, but have you looked through Victory Seeds online catalog? I've been enjoying seeds from them as well. Just a little enabling...nothing to get alarmed about ☺