RE: Collecting Seed

Thank-you all for your input, I will look up them books.

Hate to ''beat a dead horse'', but I wonder if I wasn't clear in my
first letter.

I'm planning on raising ONE Open-pollinate Broccoli variety, ONE
heirloom variety of Brussels Sprouts, ONE  hybrid of Cauliflower (no
heirloom available with this seed source) and ONE variety of heirloom
Cabbage for this years garden. I read in several sources that EACH
with cross with EACH OTHER.  Is that true ? 
(OR PERHAPS I'M STILL MISUNDERSTANDING HERE.)

 If so, then I could only grow one of these veggies each year if I 
want to collect seed ?  Ekkkk...

Pumpkins, squash and pepper I thought I would use so little seed each
year, that I could just hold some seed back for 2-5 years. 

Corn, I'm raising two heirloom varieties; one I will plant earlier as
starts [Golden Bantam] and the other one I will plant a bit later 
[Country Gentleman].  Hopefully that will do, and they are both 
sweet corn.

Thanks again all.

Sincerely,       
~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
Rainier, OR  zone 8  
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> From: > Catharine/Atlanta, zone 7b cvinson@mindspring.com

> You might want to look at any of the following: Nancy Bubel's "New
Seed
> Starters Handbook", Suzanne Ashworth's "Seed to Seed", Doug
Miller's
> "Vegetable and Herb Seed Saving" Miller's book may be harder to
locate, but
> Ashworth's and Bubel's are readily available.
> 
> Different vegetables cross more readily than others. Corn, for
example,
> crosses very readily, since pollination of corn is wind driven.
Most tomato
> varieties do not cross particularly easily; as a result, they can
be grown
> with closer spacing without fear of cross pollination. Squash cross
> pollinates quicker than rabbits reproduce. A good general reference
book
> will tell you required/recommended spacing for each vegetable. And
don't
> forget that if you only grow one variety of a particular OP
vegetable, you
> can safely collect seed without worrying about isolating varieties.
All bets
> are off in the case of hybrids. They do not come true from seed.
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