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  • From: Ken Bezilla <kenbez AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] watermelon variety
  • Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:12:03 +0000

Don't know if they're carrying it right now, but Irish Eyes had bulk Blacktail Mountain earlier this year

Ken Bezilla
Acorn
central VA


>Seed Savers Exchange lists (in the regular catalogue, not just the exchange) Small Shining Light; which I haven't tried, but it sounds good. And I >do like Blacktail Mountain and Fisher's Far North, though I don't know if either of them qualifies as an heirloom; Blacktail Mountain was bred by >Glen Drowns and Far North by the Fisher family seed company.

>But those do all indeed qualify as "rare"; though Seed Savers is listing both Blacktail Mountain and Small Shining Light in quantities up to 2500 >seed. Even Fisher's doesn't list Far North this year, they may not have had enough crop to sell seed.

>I have no idea how any of these would do in a greenhouse.

> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale


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