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  • From: Willie McKemie <mckemie AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Tomatoes (Totally Tomatoes)
  • Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:16:35 -0600

> Is it possible that some old varieties have lower germination rates and are
> not particularly suitable for market gardeners who don't want to be guessing
> on that?

I imagine that the problem is more likely to be low sales volume; the
seed producers can not afford to produce a seed crop for every variety
every year. And the seeds being sold may be old. I don't have any
experience with tomato seeds, but have found that 1 year old spinach
seed goes down to 70-80%, which is usable, and 2 year old goes down
to 10-20%, which is not usable. This, with seed that has been sitting
around in the barn, not in the cooler or in a freezer. Right now, I
trying to get last year's seed used up, having thrown out seed from
year before last after a germination test.

BTW, we just had our first freeze, it is about 28-29 deg at 6am.
Picked the last of the peppers yesterday; all the other warm weather
stuff had declined due to cold weather.

BTW again, my favored seed source is Siegers; they give me very good
service. Probably everyone has their contact information. I will
extract and post if anyone asks.

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