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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I'm now debating whether to spend the extra money to ensure that the seeds 
> are clean from insecticides.  Any opinions?

The amount of residual herbicide or pesticide on seeds will be 
inconsequential. Buy seeds that give you the food qualities you want. 
Heirloom has become a marketing buzz word. You want non-hybrid seeds, so 
you can save your own, which saves you money, makes you more 
self-sufficient, and ensures a supply of the seeds that produce the veggies 
you like to eat. The big seed companies sell hybrid seeds. Hybrid seeds do 
offer disease resistance, but that's another issue altogether; I'll start a 
separate thread on that. The big seed companies want you to reorder with 
them each year. They will produce seed only because of profits. So they may 
well stop selling seeds of something you especially like.