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Re: Thompson & Morgan Successful Seed Raising

Although I look forward to reading the bulletin, I'm hoping that it will be
better than the quality of the seeds I have received from Thompson & Morgan
in the last couple of years.  I wonder if anyone else has been experiencing
this?  

At first I thought it was simply that I hadn't honed my germination skills to
the point where I could be successful with the particular varieties I was
interested in, but recently I have spoken to two other people (a propagation
instructor at a local college and a local landscape designer) who were
commenting on the low-to-zero germination rate they were getting from many of
the T&M seeds they'd ordered.  When some seed is priced at twenty to thirty
cents PER SEED, this can be a very expensive failure.  I was very relieved to
hear their comments - perhaps it hadn't been all my fault after all!

I would be very interested to hear if anyone else has noticed a similar
problem.  I wonder if this might have anything to do with the "mother"
company being based in England?  Could it be possible those of us in the U.S.
are receiving old seed?

C. Carter
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