A Seed Saver's Garden

So true @Alasgun. I have a dear friend who has really put on weight in the last 10 years, and is now pre-diabetic. Her sister had diabetes and died young, her brother has it too and recently had a leg amputated. 'Health professionals' have all told her 'she's perfect just the way she is'. She always politely tells them, 'thank you for your kind words, but I want to actually live. I want to work on improving my body and becoming more healthy.' And they meet her with resistance to that, interpreting it as 'low self esteem'.

This repackaging of physiological and neurological illnesses into acceptable and even positive states of being (like the 'health at every size' sham) is crazy. But in Canada MAID is the #1 cause of mortality now, so we've even repackaged killing people as being 'compassionate care'. Hard to fathom this is where we're at.
 
I'm so relieved to have almost all the tomatoes planted, and the 'Schoenbrunn' ground cherries too. I'm actually thrilled to see the cherries up already in a matter of days! Not common for the physalis family! Could not for the life of me find my pump action spray watering can, so I had to buy another. I know it'll show up, but I need one now so. Happily, despite the persistent inflation of the last year (well, several really) this can was cheaper than the last by a few bucks. Can't recall the last time that happened, something getting cheaper! :lol:
 
Me: You need to stop sowing more seeds than you have room for.
Also me: Sounds like a 2027 problem.

All the tomatoes are sown, and 90% are already up! I tested a few older batches of seed lots, back to the first couple years I saved tomato seed. I think that was 2016 (maybe a few in 2015). I could not believe my eyes that not only have they come up, but they were up in a week. I wound up sowing even more than I had on my list, it's like I was compelled by the spirits of spaghetti & bruschetta, powerful forces to pushback against.

I was so happy about the tomatoes sprouting that I dug into my old pepper seed jars, most of which I'd given up on. They are not quite as aged, probably date to about 2018-19, but old by pepper time. My experience is that peppers are the one kind of seed I save that don't seem to hold viability as long as the other species I focus on. So, there may be nothing that sprouts - but we'll see. I picked mostly the decorative, colorful peppers, and a few hots. (The ones I said I'm done with, as I'm so over the burning hands that go with it.) Just opening the jars and planting the seeds cleared my sinuses.
 
One of the things I never anticipated dealing with in selling seeds is having orders put in that make me queasy. Like when a GMO developer company orders legume seeds. A part of me wishes they would just do it incognito, and not put a company name to it, and then I'd never know any different and there'd be no issue. But they probably have to for tax purposes. But it kinda sucks when this happens. Nothing I can do about it. ☹️
 
heirloomgal said:
One of the things I never anticipated dealing with in selling seeds is having orders put in that make me queasy. Like when a GMO developer company orders legume seeds. A part of me wishes they would just do it incognito, and not put a company name to it, and then I'd never know any different and there'd be no issue. But they probably have to for tax purposes. But it kinda sucks when this happens. Nothing I can do about it. ☹️
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is it against the law there to refuse services to anyone for any reason?

i'm not sure about here and since i will send seeds to people who request them without charging anything at all so i can just ignore requests if i don't think the requester is not serious or someone i'd want to spend my time on. however, that said, as of yet i've not refused to send beans to anyone who's requested them, but i currently have one request and i'm not sure the person is around any more and if they aren't i don't want to waste my time and limited funds on that sort of project.
 
flowerbug said:
is it against the law there to refuse services to anyone for any reason?

i'm not sure about here and since i will send seeds to people who request them without charging anything at all so i can just ignore requests if i don't think the requester is not serious or someone i'd want to spend my time on. however, that said, as of yet i've not refused to send beans to anyone who's requested them, but i currently have one request and i'm not sure the person is around any more and if they aren't i don't want to waste my time and limited funds on that sort of project.
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It probably is. There is also the reality that by the time I find the order, its' already paid for. I did a bit of looking into the company, and it gets federal government subsidies as well, so there would not be much sense in trying to resist them. It sucks.
 
I was shopping online last night and temporarily lost my mind, I think. I've really done my best to get away from flowers to reduce my bee load for the sake of the seeds, but there are times when I just cannot legit hold down the discipline. I'm hiding behind the fact that I sorta feel like bees won't like them (?); I bought 10 corms of a gladiolus variety called 'Rusty Chestnut'. The color palette was just too sublime! I used to grow tons of glads, buying the cheap, supersized assorted bags of them in spring, and many times the colors were totally gaudy & obnoxious even if the flowers themselves were so beautiful. But 'Rusty Chestnut' gently whispers in auburn, russet and light mahogany.

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