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Post by grungy on Aug 10, 2009 21:20:38 GMT -5
Steven, I am behind what you said 100% and if you ever have any spare seeds of any of your collections, please keep us in mind for trading or seedbanking against the future.
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Post by stevenvance on Aug 11, 2009 8:49:46 GMT -5
Steven, I am behind what you said 100% and if you ever have any spare seeds of any of your collections, please keep us in mind for trading or seedbanking against the future. Thanks! I'll be glad to share, but I'm just starting out. I plan to lean on all of you a bit, at first, to start building my collections...lol. CanadaMike and AmericanGardener have already been very gracious and offered me some seeds. And I'm making some other connections. I've got a coworker who is from the Republic of Georgia. She's going to see what she can get for me over there. I've gotten about 10 melons, 6-7 chilies, some honey pumpkins and hazel nuts from Turkey. I do have some things I should be able to offer folks. I just need to go through my stuff. A lot of it is older (we were in apartments/military housing for a few years), but judging from what germinated this year, a lot of it is still good. It said on the header for this section that Oaxaca was an area of interest. Who's baby is that? I might have some stuff for them. Steven |
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Post by bunkie on Aug 11, 2009 10:49:36 GMT -5
welcome aboard steven! i appreciate your post about your experiences in Iraq and what you hope to do eventually with seeds. as val said, i agree with all you said too!
this thread was moved awhile back from the soapbox thread and much of the pages are missing. it was started by a letter that was written in the Baker Creek catalogue by a farmer from Iraq...
i thought it very sad and wanted to help the people and farmers of Iraq keep their seed. i have planted both varieties of tomatoes this year. the Nineveh are loaded with fruit and starting to blush. the Al Kuffa needs to be transplanted to the garden, but it is lush with greenery and blossoms. i am saving seeds of both these varieties in hopes of giving them back to Iraq eventually.
as val said, i would be interested in trading with you too in the near future.
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Post by stevenvance on Aug 11, 2009 10:55:58 GMT -5
welcome aboard steven! i appreciate your post about your experiences in Iraq and what you hope to do eventually with seeds. as val said, i agree with all you said too! this thread was moved awhile back from the soapbox thread and much of the pages are missing. it was started by a letter that was written in the Baker Creek catalogue by a farmer from Iraq... i thought it very sad and wanted to help the people and farmers of Iraq keep their seed. i have planted both varieties of tomatoes this year. the Nineveh are loaded with fruit and starting to blush. the Al Kuffa needs to be transplanted to the garden, but it is lush with greenery and blossoms. i am saving seeds of both these varieties in hopes of giving them back to Iraq eventually. as val said, i would be interested in trading with you too in the near future. Thanks for the support, the interest, and letting me know you have the seeds. I am going to sit down and go through what I have in the next week or two. I'll try and get a list up, and I'll let you know what I have. I'd love to get seed of those tomatoes. They are on my list of stuff to acquire. Steven PS...I actually spent most of one tour in and around Nineveh (Mosul)... |
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Post by grungy on Aug 11, 2009 11:33:46 GMT -5
Bunkie,
Please keep us in mind for those tomato seeds as well. BTW your Chestnut Flavored Beans are starting to ripen now so it won't be long before some will be headed your way.
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Post by Alan on Aug 11, 2009 20:25:53 GMT -5
Hello Steven,
glad to have you here. Anyhow, glad to see this thread is still alive! My Iraqi genepools grew here in Southern Indiana and produced, I just wish I had a larger sample to have worked with but I have plenty of that material now.
Oaxaca is my baby! Lots of diversity there, if you have anything of interest I would love to trade with you.
Also of great interest to me are any of the Mesopotamian/Edenic states and Peru, advanced civilizations with far advanced agriculture and history.
Hope your enjoying the site!
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Post by bunkie on Aug 12, 2009 11:55:44 GMT -5
ohhhh....chestnut flavored beans!!! ;D
ok val and steven, will have seeds of both toms for you in the fall or a bit later... this is the first year i've bagged toms, and have been having a lot of difficulty getting them to fruit. i think it has been the unusual hot hot hot weather.
steven, cool you were in Nineveh...and now will have toms named after it!
;D
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Post by klorentz on Nov 22, 2009 16:09:15 GMT -5
Had great results with Al-Kuffa this year. Great mater.
Kevin
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