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Re: Melissa's layered plants and a question about lettuce seeds

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> Those all sound like big plants in small slots to me. Maybe if you could 
> convince the tomatoes to lean  outward of the beds, they won't take up so 
> much room but a tomato cage is a large obstacle for a pepper to grow under. 
> And eggplant are big leaf plants also.
> I planted basil in the centers of 4 tomato plants, staked the plants and 
> pruned the interior limbs so they'd grow out, and I'm still having trouble 
> keeping the basil from being too shaded.  These are 2' squares with a 
> tomato in each corner. Thought I could get away with snipping the basil 
> awhile before the tomato shaded them out, but it's not really working.

I am not sure which post you are referencing, so I am going to assume 
you are talking about putting eggplant and peppers i nthe same plot? 
I don't know if I confused everyone in the first place, cause I 
wasn't putting tomatoes in with the peppers.... well, except in one 
bed I do have tomatoes on the north end and peppers in the middle.... 
but they are still spaced accordingly, not interplanted. For the 
basil and tomato problem, I saw in one of my books where the author 
recommends putting basil in with tomatoes, but only planting the 
basil on the south side of the tomatoes. For instance, in between the 
tomatoes, but on the outside rahter than the inside of them..... and 
only on the south side of the bed. 

As far as interplanting the eggplant and peppers, do you think that 
the eggplant will shade the peppers too much? I only have 4 of them 
in with the peppers, so I am hoping that it won't overburden the bed. 
I love eggplant but they seem to take up so much room! 

> The lettuce:  I let my early lettuce bolt to seed. I like it, it's OP 
> variety, and I wanted to save seed for next time. Normally by now it's no 
> problem to get enough dry days to let the seeds dry on the stems. But, 
> we've had cool temps and rain almost daily, and I don't know exactly when 
> to pull the stalks to cure out the seed.
> martha

I have never dried my seed, and i was wondering if any seed will dry 
well? I have heard that only some seeds can be dried, others are 
hybrids that won't work. Can anyone help me here? I would love to dry 
some of my seed for next year!

Missi


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