[Market-farming] methods are available to protect the different seeds
tonitime at juno.com
tonitime at juno.com
Sat Dec 25 18:27:38 EST 2004
Hi Paul,
Season's Greetings! If you are not growing alot of seed with the
purpose of producing seed for a seed seller, you CAN save whatever you'd
like for your own use and waay more. I grow out about 16 kinds of both
heirloom and or other OP beans and tomatoes each year, and have saved
pepper seed. I save lettuces, cukes, and squash - along with flowers and
culinary herbs. With the peppers and tomatoes ( tho the maters cross
infrequently), you can bag the blossoms to protect against alot of
pollination. I have used little mesh drawstring bags, ladie's stockings,
and pieces of old remay rowcover as barriers to pollinators. Many things
you can pollinate quickly with a small camel hair brush or q-tip.
Tomatoes are self-pollinating and other things you can pollinate as
needed. The pole beans rarely get crossed - sometimes at certain heights
by bumble bees - but usually all do come true to type.
Toni
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