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To: SZonian

You are most certainly welcome. The problem is primarily with corn, soybeans, and rapeseed (canola), so far, but as more and more species are modified (contaminated wheat has been found in areas in Canada, from experimental fields, moving into nearby fields), it will become a bigger problem.


224 posted on 03/16/2011 4:23:35 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: SZonian

I should add, that what I meant is that the big problem of contamination, and Monsanto suing for seed cleaning, is with the crop types I’ve mentioned. The heirloom seed contamination is varied. I’ve seen notices from some online supplies saying that certain varieties of several crop types are no longer sold because the fields they come from are contaminated, but I don’t remember the plants they listed at the time (there are articles out there about the problem though). I’m planting all heirlooms this year, except *maybe* some cherry tomatoes since I did like the supersweet 100, and tomatoes are self pollinating. But it’s still undecided, I tried some pink brandywine determinate heirlooms, and they were delicious, grew dozens of large fruit, and when winter came, we picked 2 1/2 grocery sacks of green tomatoes and had ripe tomatoes for almost 2 months (subject to possible incorrect memory disclaimer, lol) after (we’d put them in a partially open plastic bag when we wanted them ripened, the same as we do with grocery tomatoes, and leave the ones we wanted later out to breathe).


228 posted on 03/16/2011 4:34:46 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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