Where's a good reliable INEXPENSIVE mailorder to buy seeds for kitchen garden type veggies?

[Jstpssng]

Not sure which of the 3 states you list for location is where you live now, but shop around. I get the impression there's a huge mark-up on seeds. There's a New England overstock chain called Ocean State Job Lots...they sell Burpee seeds for 40% off list. That's where I get most of mine.

The only thing I have poor germination rates on is carrot seed. Dunno if that's just their nature, or if birds are eating them (have a big problem with crows eating bean & corn seeds) but other than that germination rate is 90+%. YMMV

To get around the crow problem, I put a fountain drink cup with the bottom cut out over where I planted, and leave it there until the plants are a couple inches high. Obviously, that doesn't work if you plant a field full, but for the 20 or so plants I put in it's fine.
Curiously, how do those of you that plant large amounts of corn discourage crows?

Last year I ran a string along the top of each row. I probably don't qualify as "big" though. Commercial farmers have so much out that the birds just can't get all of it. The farmer near where I grew up used an "Air cannon" to keep the birds out of his garden.

 

[Oaktree]

We love jade beans. Especially picked young and stirfried whole in olive oil.

I tend to go more for pole beans, if for no reason other than they're easier to pick.
+1 on stir-fried in olive oil. I'll use a little soy sauce too.

 

[Jstpssng]

I tend to go more for pole beans, if for no reason other than they're easier to pick.
+1 on stir-fried in olive oil. I'll use a little soy sauce too.

I like fresh beans steamed, then thrown into the frying pan with bacon.