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Post by canadamike on Jul 26, 2009 19:47:46 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Jul 26, 2009 19:44:49 GMT -5
Welcome to the crazy bunch tennessee girl. Siverseeds is right, it will pick up in the fall. Hope you enjoy it a lot here.
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Post by canadamike on Jul 24, 2009 22:25:46 GMT -5
It is actually the name of the guy who put them on the map.
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Post by canadamike on Jul 23, 2009 2:18:09 GMT -5
I have grown many cukes, and next year will grow many fro the Netherlands genebank, but up to now, the best I have seen is STRAIGHT EIGHT''. The second would be LONG IMPROVED.I WOULD GROW IT IF i WAS A MARKET GARDENER. LI is the best commercial cuke to me.
But for taste and pure perfection, not one beats STREIGHT EIGHT. 25 years of growing an immense amount of different ones, most I do not even remeber the names ( but I do remember Straight Eight)
Kokopelli, the best seed aving organization in the world, I discovered this year, is offering STRAIGHT EIGHT to its membership. For those of you who do not know, once you are a member there you can get free seeds from a huge list. Your membership took care for it.
I love IMPROVED LONG for production, I sent a lot of seeds to Alan, and it is very good tasting too, the best producer I have seen yet, but NOTHING beats STRAIGHT EIGHT in taste, and it is also a very productive pickler of perfecty shapes lil' cukes...
The french know what good food is. We spend 10% of our budget on food, they spend 33%.
If the largest seed organization in France is promoting this one instead of one of the many french ones, it is because it diserves it.
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Post by canadamike on Jul 23, 2009 2:00:02 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Jul 23, 2009 1:20:53 GMT -5
Last winter, my dear friends Grunt and Grungy sent me a wonderful gift. Seeds of about 600 or so tomato cultivars.
We shared many laughs together about how poisoned a gift it was: the minute I got them, I called my love ( Grungy) to bitch her like crazy. She knew I would be stuck with sharing them and distribute them, We shared a lot of laughs about that poisoned gift.
To those of you for whom such an amont of seeds would be wonderful, we have to explain to you that when you have access to genebanks and networks, if you are sincere in your desire to share and promote diversity, seeds become a responsability, a duty, and comes a time when too much is too much.
Val and Dan are there, so am I, and many others here like Alan. Comes a time when it is more work than fun.
Dan and Val know this. So they knew they were being mischevious little devils when they sent them. And they love me and I love them.
But what these mischevious lil' great friends of mine did not know is that I brought these seeds to the region's 2 largest greenhouse growers of garden plants ( nurseries I think you say in english...anyway, the folks selling plants in spring)
Given the fact I write a column in the regional paper, both these nurseries made record sales and had people asking for the ''tomatoes from the newspaper guy''.
One of them, seeing the success of heirloom sales, a great producer strugling financially to fight the grocery stores and the Walmart of this world stealing his livelihood away from him, even took all the old heirlooms from Val and Dan from the ''12 plants for 4$'' styrofoam containers and put them in single pots, sold them for 7$ a plant. They got sold out. The last customer came and bought eveything,all what was left from the ''newspaper guy plants'', and she cooked him a deal at 5$ per plant.
Quite far away from 4$ for twelve plants.
None of it would have happened without 2 mischevious wonderful angels, Dan and Grungy.
Now, they are asking for more for next year and considering getting more and more away from usual hybrids. The VICTORIAN DWARF tomato is apparently amazing, so loaded with maters you do not see the plant, and all the others are doing well too.
My dear wonderful friends Val and Dan, I might ask you for more seeds of some cultivars next year. I do not sell them, I give them to them so our cause would florish. But they will grow they own seeds from now on, quite a revolution.
It works beautifully here, and I am now wondering how my life and projects would be without you.
Gosh, am I blessed to have had the privilege to know you.
You are in my heart in a way you can't even start to contemplate.
Blessed is the man who met you on his journey through life.
I love you so dearly my friends, you are now making my little neck of the woods a better place, oh you lil' mischevious angels.
Michel
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Post by canadamike on Jul 23, 2009 1:06:19 GMT -5
Last winter, my dear friends Grunt and Grungy sent me a wonderful gift. Seeds of about 600 or so tomato cultivars.
We shared many laughs together about how poisoned a gift it was: the minute I got them, I called my love ( Grungy) to bitch her like crazy. She knew I would be stuck with sharing them and distribute them, We shared a lot of laughs about that poisoned gift.
To those of you for whom such an amont of seeds would be wonderful, we have to explain to you that when you have access to genebanks nd networks, if you are sincere in your desire to share and promote diversity, seeds become a responsability, a duty, and comes a time when too much is too much.
Val and Dan are there, so am I, and many others here like Alan. Comes a time when enough is enough.
Dan and Val know this. So they knew they were being mischevious little devils when they sent them. And they love me and I love them.
But what these mischevious lil' great friends of mine did not know is that I brought these seeds to the region's 2 largest greenhouse growers of garden plants ( nurseries I think you say in english...anyway, the folks selling plants in spring)
Given the fact I write a column in the regioanal paper, both these nurseries made record sales and had people asking for the ''tomatoes from the newspaper guy''.
One of them, seeing the success of heirloom sales, a producer strugling to fight the grocery stores and the Walmart of this world stealing his livelihood away from him, even took all the old heirlooms from Val and Dan from the ''12 plants for 4$'' styrofoam containers and put them in single pots, sold them for 7$ a plant. They got sold out. The last customer came and bought eveything,all what was left from the ''newspaper guy plants'', and she cooked him a deal at 5$ per plant.
Quite far away from 4$ for twelve plants.
None of it would have happened without 2 mischevious wonderful angels, Dan and Grungy.
Now, they are asking for more for next year and considering getting away from ususa hybrids. The
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Post by canadamike on Jul 21, 2009 0:06:59 GMT -5
Jim's grain are good in an arid climate. It should fit you like a glove.
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Post by canadamike on Jul 20, 2009 23:39:51 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Jul 20, 2009 20:54:48 GMT -5
I wanted to order but they don't ship in Canada. Very interesting material. I would love to see some of these people here, they are passionate.
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Post by canadamike on Jul 20, 2009 17:02:19 GMT -5
If it has been crossed somewhat it will give it vigor, otherwise it is only a matter of time and generations.
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Post by canadamike on Jul 19, 2009 23:18:25 GMT -5
Me tried a raw slice, me, me was not that impressed, me does not deny it could help me through a war famine, me has no war famine in sight ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by canadamike on Jul 19, 2009 22:50:23 GMT -5
Grungy, I actually took loads of pictures with a bad camera, and since I was moving ( shaking or whatever) a bit, they ended up fuzzzy.
I'll take care of it this year my love...
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Post by canadamike on Jul 19, 2009 21:03:08 GMT -5
It is not related to breeding , reallly, more about the government not helping a small entrepeneur. And having no sensitivity towards that kind of work.
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Post by canadamike on Jul 19, 2009 11:10:35 GMT -5
It is more a mattter of personnal problems than else Karen, I do not think we should discuss them here, really, but Tim can do it if he wants. I sure do not feel at ease to do so.
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