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  • From: "Norma Sutton" <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] finding local varieties
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:31:32 -0400

Thanks for the link Paul.  I've been just picking up whatever heirloom seeds the local farm and garden center carries.  Mostly more common ones, at least in this area.  Rutgers, Homesteads, Country Gentleman and some sort of Indian dent corn without a name.  All these varities do well, but I would like a little more variety LOL
Norma

On 8/11/06, TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:

http://www.southernexposure.com/index.html

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 8/11/2006 at 1:27 PM Dianne Palmer-Quay wrote:

>Norma,
>
>Can you locate a seed company that is in your general area?  I am in SC
and
>buy a lot of seeds from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange since they focus
on
>seeds for the Mid-Atlantic region.  Of course I am a little further south,
>but generally the varieties work well.  I buy some seeds from companies in
>other parts of the country, but choose the varieties carefully.  The key
>challanges I have here are: 1) a short cool season with large fluxuations
>in daytime/nighttime temps and 2) very hot and humid summer season.
>Consequently I look for hardy, fast growing cool weather crops and heat
>tolerant warm weather crops. I also pay attention to catalogs that tell me
>the best latitudes for the varieties (this espcially pertains to onions
and
>corn).  Check the same variety in several catalogs as well.  Some
write-ups
>are much more informative with disease resistance, germination times, etc.
>
>Dianne in the midlands of SC (where it is monsoon season right now - hot,
>humid days and thunderstorms every afternoon.  My clothes keep on getting
>an extra rinse!)
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