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One more mention

And, to toss another wrench in the works, something like Sweet 1000, or 
sweet million, whatever, has been hybridized for so long, they're 
practically open pollinated.  I've saved seed from them and had the 
offspring produce almost identical tomatoes. If you decide to chance it, 
Celebrity might not be a good one, you might be spinning your wheels (it's 
too new a cross, ditto Merced hybrid, however, Merced is an excellent choice 
for long season production), but the cherry tomatoes, many of them anyhow, 
are not newcomers and you'll get a very true-to-type harvest, that does well 
in your own garden.
The primary reason I like to save my own seed is that I find the 2nd or 3rd 
generations to be even better adapted to my (somewhat flakey) gardening 
whims.
Many of the older okras, too, are ok to save seed from.
Squashes love to rampant interbreed amongst themselves, and I've found the 
strays that fruit out don't make anything I care about. (tough hulls, tons 
of seeds, and no flesh).
Corn is one of the easier types to save seed from, if you just space your 
planting dates out and save only those that are pollinating when the other 
is not. Or paper bag them, but I get less filled ears when I hand mate than 
when I let the bees and wind have a go at it. DO NOT attempt to save corn 
seed longer than 2 years, tho.
They all have an expiration date on them, I think a tomato seed holds 
viability longest under questionable conditions. (4 yrs max on tomatoes with 
any germination success)
Carrots, beets, and ? radish? I think are biennuals, so they arent' going to 
produce seed the first year anyhow.  I don't have the patience to hold them 
over, so I usually get new seedstock for any biennials.
Onions are, too, when you buy the little green onion 'sets', you're buying 
the sprouted seed from last year's harvest. If you plant an onion seed, 
don't expect it to mature in the first year. (you'll pull sets and replant 
them the next spring.) I THINK, onions always confuse me, they even have 
day-length requirements to make their type.
Doreen, what are we here?  Short day, noon day, long day?  NoonDay Texas 
obviously grows a day-neutral?  vidalia type?  Grano/granex is vidalia, ?? 
 Is everyone else as confused as I am in Texas Onionry?
martha who has a sudden yearning for onion soup!
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