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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] More spring palnting
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:11:17 -0800 (PST)

My beans probably came from CA (?). My price -- retail-- (and I rarely pay
retail on anything) is $1.69 per six pack. Nursery's make their money on
ornamenmtals, vegetables are incidental to the business........

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--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] More spring palnting
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 10:15 PM
> Big city stuff. Most of the folks in the big cities expect
> to have the work
> done for them. Quite honestly, most (not you necessarily
> Bob <g>) don't
> have a clue about gardening and they make a ton of money
> off them by selling
> plants for things that would grow by simply tossing seeds.
>
> The ex's grandfather and his uncles owned/own a BIG
> nursery down in Sonoma
> County. They made the big bucks by selling six packs to
> folks down in the
> Bay Area and, in particular, Marin County!
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] More spring palnting
>
>
> > Whew! I'm glad I'm not the only one who
> thought that was a bit weird.
> > I keep trying to think of why they would need bean and
> okra plants
> > instead of just seeding. I plant my beans straight
> into the hay/straw
> > mulch-almost no soil, and they germinate. last year,
> I grew okra in
> > mulch the same way. Bob, is there some reason that
> beans and okra are
> > sold as plants? What puzzle piece am I missing?
> >
> > Bev
> >
> > Lynda wrote:
> >> Beans grow if you toss them on the ground. The
> Jack & the Beanstalk
> >> story was semi-based in fact. They are one of the
> few seeds that
> >> have close to a 100% successful germination rate.
> >>
> >> Lynda ----- Original Message ----- From:
> "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I'm doing a lot of [planting from seed
> this year, but, the results
> >>> are much more predictable with the plants, and
> my space is so
> >>> limited.
> >>
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