[Ciexyz]

The grocery store where I bought the tabletop trees has a knowledgable group of workers who buy good healthy stock and they know how to take care of all their live stock so they stay healthy. They said the Richland fir trees wouldn’t last outside in the winter and I should look to repot them eventually and put the pots outside for the spring, summer and fall only. But I’ll check with the local garden store also for their advice.

[Nepeta]

There is nothing magical about "heirlooms". Some of them are very good, and have been preserved because they are unique and good. Others simply are older varieties that have been improved upon by later plant breeding, and do not offer anything superior to other varieties.

There is nothing inherently bad about hybrids. I have had Sweet Million reseed itself for 2 seasons, and the fruits were like the original first season growth.

GMOs are not evil. "Organic" is not holy and pure--it's a way of making people feel good about following ritual, like driving a Prius.

GMO crops supplying vitamins not found in the original plant are a BOON to the people who consume them. Starvation and malnutrition are not noble states, anymore than croaking of malaria is noble because do-gooders in the first world banned DDT.

I grow all sorts of plants--heirlooms, hybrids, etc--because they suit my needs, not my religion.