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Re: Another Fall Planting question

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>
> << Okay, you real gardeners, those of you whose tomato cages aren't on
upside
>  down and never worry about purple beans --start telling us secrets.  You
>  don't go to Home Depot to buy seedlings, do you?  Do you order them from
>  somewhere?  Order non-hybrid seeds from Heirloom or what?  Save seeds
from
>  the previous year?  Are there great seed catalogues that you look forward
to
>  getting each year?
>  Start talking or I drop ship this zucchini.
>  Cyn >>
>
> SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER HER!!!!    I'M NOT PREPARED FOR THE DREADED "Z-BOMB"
> !!!!!!

I have not started as many "starts" as I wanted to, but I get buy.
I bought some seeds a few years back from Totally Tomatoes and
Pinetree and a few other places.  With the small size of my garden
even the small packets last a few years.  I store the seeds in seperat
sealed plastic bags with sila gel in them.  (dessicant, computer parts
always seems to have various sized packets and I just "recycle" them).
I always have some loses but I get a few interesting plants this way.
Never as many as wanted, still working on that.  Normally I end up
putting it off to late.
My other source of standard starts is the local hardware store/grocery
for whatever is cheap.  I also have some friends whe are really in to
gardening and we exchange unusual starts.  Perhaps I traded some green
zebra for black crim, etc.  Also the local farmers market has an unusual
variety of plants.  And finally the the "volunteers"  The tomatoes/peppers
or potatoes that start on the compost heap.  I have no idea what they
are but I transplant them to my garden.  I have one volunteer tomato
plant the no longer fits the definition of sq foot.  It is 6+ feet tall and
about
5 feet around with hundreds of paste tomatoes on it.  The funny thing is
that this monster seems to be coexisting with the other plants it is
intertwinded with.  Everyone seems happy.  Except the totally shaded
peppers.  - ROn


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