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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was music, now farming, agricultural, other misc.
  • Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:35:33 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks James, I'm not accustommed to trying to plan for such things. I would
have thought someone growing their own food (like you) would have to buy seed
by the pound instead of the gram (like I do from gurneys). I thought I
remembered big hoppers of seed when I was a kid......bobford


--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] was music, now farming, agricultural, other misc.
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 7:21 PM
> > >I was just curious of a person could buy a few lbs
> of each and then store
> > them. From what you are saying it wouldn't work ,
> even if you could find
> > them at a better price, now.
>
> You in fact cannot do this. Most gardeners and subsistence
> farmers make the
> mistake of buying WAY too much seed.
>
> Some large and very hard coated seeds like wheat and corn
> are viable for
> decades if not centuries. Others hardly last until the
> next season like peppers
> and eggplants. Everything else is in between.
>
> Depending on they type of gardening done, low germination
> rates can be
> disasterous. I plant a lot of things in seedbeds and
> transplant them so low
> germination is not so much a problem. But in plots that
> are direct seeded and
> especially those that are precision seeded, low germination
> is a killer.
>
> I do a great deal of seed-saving. But I don't think
> anyone need seriously
> fear a general lack of vegetable seeds being for sale.
> People have been
> offering vegetable seeds for sale for hundreds of years and
> methinks this is very
> unlikely to discontinue.
>
> To grow all the tomatoes, for instance, that a large family
> needs for a year
> takes fewer seeds than can be pinched between thumb and
> forefinger. A
> teaspoon of cabbage seeds will give more than a ton of
> cabbage, more than you could
> possibly use. There is no advantage whatever in having a
> quart of either.
>
> James
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