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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

It's going to be especially challenging in my winter squash patch. I'm 
growing about 10 varieties of winter squash and eating pumpkins, and another 
10 or so varieties of gourds and decorative pumpkins. Seed-savers have 
methods of pollinating and taping the female flowers shut. I'll be lucky if 
I can find a male and female from the same variety, they way they crawl all 
over each other.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] ???


> That was very informative, Lynn, Thank you.................
>
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> --- On Fri, 3/6/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > What seeds from the nursery do you save, by the way?
>
>
>
> > I haven't saved much seed in the past; you have to
> > isolate from other
> > varieties, unless you are purposely crossing them. I grow
> > so many different
> > tomatoes, for example, in close proximity that they could
> > cross. Not that
> > that is always a bad thing, but you never know what you
> > will get. This year
> > I got open pollinated varieties and plan to isolate some
> > (just put bags over
> > them during blooming to make sure they are only pollinated
> > by the one I
> > want) and save some seeds. You can save any type of  OP
> > seed this way.
> >
> > I don't believe that seeds will become too expensive,
> > or unavailable as some
> > say, but I'd like to save money and  start developing
> > varieties adapted to
> > my farm...you do that by picking the 'best' for
> > several generations, saving
> > seed, and perpetuationg those genes. I've done that
> > with garlic (cloves, not
> > seed), and I get consistently large bulbs now. I plan to
> > save tomato, winter
> > squash, beans, corn (I grow some OP and some hybrid...I
> > prefer hybrid sweet
> > corn), and maybe other seeds. I know that.especially with
> > tomatoes, even if
> > I find something I like (right now Rose and Morgage Lifter
> > are my
> > favorites), I'll always be trying new varieties.
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> > Tioga Co. PA
> >
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