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Re: Terrific Story & Photo Opportunity

In a message dated 8/4/2004 12:21:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, BrookBarb@aol.com writes:
but many gardeners are losing confidence in
growing from seed .....<


Rose-Marie, can you document this? If so, seems to me there's a story or six in that.

My experience has been different. I'm finding more and more gardeners---particularly veggie growers---want to start from seed, and are looking for information about how to do that.
I think there may be several reasons for this - growing seed from Burpee is generally trouble free, but when you graduate from that and start perennials from seed, the dynamics are very different (viability, germination rates, stratification needs etc).  These take time to learn and adjust too and I suspect cause some frustration.
 
The heirloom 'craze' also may contribute to the people wanting to grow from seed - there are many more varieties of tomato in seed catalogues then anyone will find in a store, and many are open pollinated so seed saving is also popular from these.  However they may not have the bloom colour, length of bloom and virus protection of the modern hybrids, so perhaps they dissapoint/die more often and hence cause frustration.
 
There is room in the market for both these areas to be addressed and certainly there is a place for Winners!  Good retailers of perennials sell only those things that will grow and either need to trust the AAS winners (which their patrons want because of the press) or go from local knowledge - or both.
Seeing the plants growing locally in gardens and making your own assessment is perhaps the only caste iron way of deciding if they will perform.
 
Katy
At the end of the circle, at the top of the hill.
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