[WestCoastGal]

You always amaze me with what you can remember, I am not good at that. LOL You are so right about Mr soros and his plans for this country - none of it will be good. We are already in major trouble after two weeks of the new guy Mr 0.

I checked Sandhill Preservation....this is their mission statement which as you said they are a good company to buy from.

We grow over 90% of the varieties listed here. These are grown on our farm, either through controlled hand pollinations or by isolations. We have 10 acres in seed production and evaluation. Under no circumstance are any of our seeds chemically treated.

Organic Certification Update: We were able to get organic certification on part of our farm this year (more information on that in the 2008 update). We have many varieties in this year's catalog which are being offered as CERTIFIED ORGANIC If the item is being offered as CERTIFIED ORGANIC, it will have an OG after the price of the seeds.

Safe Seed Pledge: We will never offer any genetically engineered varieties. We have a firm commitment to traditional plant breeding techniques and are adamantly opposed to moving genes from one species to another through biotechnology. Please see this pledge in it's entirety on the Resources and Links page.

I started with tomatoes

Tomato culture: Ideally, we start our tomatoes in mid-April to set out in late May. Lately, our tomatoes have been started in early May and set out in mid-June. I've noticed we have virtually no early blight problems and, if properly cared for, have lots of tomatoes. Plant outside after all danger of frost is past. On early plantings, we speed growth up by covering new transplants with milk jugs which have had the bottoms cut out and lids removed. We set out plants about 12” apart in a row and cage to support indeterminate types. I have evaluated all of the varieties we offer this year plus some others and discovered that there is no real way for me to properly describe some of them. Even though some appear to have almost identical descriptions in here, each and every one is different.

They have a gazillion varieties. A man dropped off a small Christmas tree for us at work and some tomatoes, he gave me the names but I forgot them and I also forgot where I put the paper with the names. :D I will have to go drive up there I guess. He grows trees and tomatoes.

This one sounded good from the long list.

Pink Climber: mid, Ind, PL, very vigorous vines, 12 to 16 oz. flat globe. We have had many people rave about this variety and I finally figured out why. When I actually took care of it (weeded) it yielded a mountain of pink tomatoes, 1 pound and up. OG Pkt. $2.75

Also, your tips on storing them are great. Thank you for sharing all your great tips with us.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Do not read his section of the catalog with the rare poultry, or you will be in trouble.

Few people have ever seen some of the beautiful chicken varieties there are to be had.

The pink climber sounds good.

I found his descriptions to be as true as they can be and didn’t listen, when he warned that they had sparce foilage and in a hot sun area, the tomatoes would burn....LOL, here they cooked.

One year, I ordered a lifetime supply of the different varieties, rather like a kid in a candy shop....that was the the last year that I could have a real garden and it was worth every minute.

Pick up some of the old yellow pear tomatoes or the red pear tomatoes, they are small, but will bear more pounds per plant than you expect, each a bite sized fruit..

Here the cherry tomato grows better than the large ones.

I like the Pinetree catalog, for the mixed types of seeds, being as nosey as I am, I want to try them all, so bought the mixed varieties.

My Basil plant just died, it was a mixed variety from a Pinetree pack and lived about 6 years in front of the hot west window in the living room......finally froze to death.

LOL, I saved seeds from it, so will grow another, and have left it alone, just in case it wants to try a second lifetime.

My memory is a joke, it will remember part of any thing, but will not retain a name until I turn the page.

Of course Soros is a name that has so much behind it, that one remembers it.

He ruined a couple of countries, via the money part of it, that I do remember.

I have never settled on where he gets his money, who is his boss and know that we traced him back to the nazi money, Calpernia remembers that part of the story, again it has names in it, that I forget, even tho, I dug into them.

There is such a strong thought that Soros is behind our money troubles and I cannot shake it.

That he bought the White House for Obama, that I believe and he tried for Kerry, that we already know.

So, yes, garden seeds may become very rare.

Sandhill Preservation is also a good site for Sweet Potato plants and I tried to get Jerusulem Artichokes started, as if one grows them and leaves the small ones, you can have a natural source of food growing on its own, without your having to have seeds, but not here, they grew, but want water all the time.