Re: who grows what?

**m* l* <m*@earthlink.net>**

I apologize for including you and some other protesters among the 
"ornamentals only" people on the list. I have ordered seeds this year 
from Pinetree, Kitchen Garden Seeds, Nichols Garden Nursery, Southern 
Exposure Seed Exchange, Fedco, Shumway, Thompson & Morgan and 
Bountiful Gardens.  I don't want to spend the time particularizing 
what I've ordered, but my minimum order so far has been about 
$11.  That doesn't go far in this day of costly seeds, however.  I do 
all except grocery shopping online because I have a mobility 
handicap, and clothing stores and others are not arranged for 
wheelchair shopping.  Thus I run into these varying individual IT 
demands at every turn.  Frustration and aggravation build.  I write a 
weekly garden column for the Boise newspaper, and my intention is to 
encourage beginners to garden, and to grow at least some of their own 
food.  Too many people don't know where their food comes from.  I've 
heard a teenager say she didn't want something that was grown in 
dirt, she'd get her food from the supermarket.  I'm not sure her 
parents even knew better than that.

I was a certified Master Gardener for about five years, but that lost 
its luster when I heard a fellow MG ask for tulip seed, and another 
being surprised to learn where the blossom end of a tomato 
was.  Margaret Lauterbach

>My Dear,
>  I wish you would go look at my blog.
>http://muskogeephoenixonline.com/blogs/MollyDay/
>
>  We grow herbs, veggies, fruit, flowers, tropicals, butterfly plants, have a
>vermicompost hotel, compost bins, trade our pine cones for the neighbors
>bunny poo. We are not diletantes just because we don't have trouble on the
>Internet ordering seeds.
>
>  We are master gardeners, garden bloggers, garden writers, are helping get
>community gardens
>in our community, presenting free classes, helping raise money for a
>butterfly house at our city park.
>  Please don't categorize us until you know more about us.
>
>  And, for the rest: Could you please tell me what seed online/catalog
>companies you use and for which seeds. Thanks a heap of spring greens,
>Martha Stoodley (pen name MollyDay)

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