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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

You probably should check out the Garden Seed Inventory.  It has 
exhaustive listings of all the open-pollinated (i. e., non-hybrid, 
savable) seeds that can presently be purchased in North America.  I used 
it to find "Giant Zittau" onion, an overwintering onion with good 
keeping propeties.  It's loaded with exotic old-time veggies like white 
beets and black tomatoes.

Bill
S. Oregon coast

P. S. -- For a real treat, check out Italian beet recipes online 
(unknown in America) by typing "barbabietola" into a search engine and 
hitting Translate.  It's always a hoot to use the translator, and you 
wouldn't believe the ways that Northern Italians put white beets to use 
(but you can substitute red ones).

Tracy wrote:

> Thanks to all for the input about seed saving.  The  book, SEED TO SEED, by 
> Suzanne Ashworth looks exactly like the reference I was looking for.  I 
> understood the basics of seed saving but was not sure of the exact 
> relationships of individual plants, what ones were biennial, etc.  Thanks 
> again.
>
> Tracy Julian
> in North East-Central Minnesota 
>
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