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Re: saving seeds



> At 05:56 PM 1/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I feel like a real idiot but I'll ask away anyway.  I've saved some seeds 
> >from squashes that I bought in the grocery store in the hopes of planting 
> >them.  Should I bother? I have to admit high school botnany was not my 
> >strong point.  I need a start from scratch lesson on hybrid vs ... 
> >whatever.
> 
> Not at all a stupid question!  I tended to think that nearly all
> grocery-store produce was hybrids, but in terms of squashes this is not so.
> 
> Just this fall I bought at a farmers' market an individually labeled Sweet
> Dumpling squash.  I liked its looks (chubby squat thing with white skin,
> splotched with dark green, ribbed, with orange flesh, and fruit just the
> right size for a family of two).  I had heard of Sweet Dumpling but really
> didn't know if it was a hybrid or an open-pollinated variety.
At our local Safeway they sell a collection of 'gourmet' squash like sweet dumpling
and are actually nice enough to label the hybrids F1. How about that? Should be
more of it. The squash are so expensive that its cheaper to buy a packet of seeds
than one squash. Amazing. But of course you get to eat the squash as well as
keep the seeds. I  think of all vegies in the supermarket winter squash are least
likely to be hybrids. In fact the two favourite winter squash in Australia (although
we call them pumpkins) are heirloom varieties.

Samantha
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