It's here! It's here! The SSE (Seed Savers' Exchange) catalog is here!

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My Seed Savers Exchange 2002 Yearbook came yesterday!

Bwahahahahaha! Mine, all mine! I've got property now and I can plant what I want! Where's my envelopes, my stamps! Clear the desk I have orders to write!

........Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), January 29, 2002

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Response to It's here! It's here! The SSE catalog is here!

I rejoice with you--not everyone would understand, I know! What are you getting?

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), January 29, 2002.

Response to It's here! It's here! The SSE catalog is here!

Well, two years ago I realized that I really missed gardening so decided to go back to it after a long spell of not growing anything. Had a great year, took an interest in open pollinated varieties and discovered the Seed Savers Exchange. Had to wait until the next February to get the big book. When it came in I spent a couple of weeks researching what I wanted. Before I could get any orders off we had a radical change in our personal circumstances which led me to realize that gardening was take more time than I could spare so decided not to order anything at all since I wouldn't be able to actually plant anything. Happily our circumstances have changed again so now I'm looking for last year's book with all of my notes to be sure I'm recalling correctly what I wanted to order.

Off the top of my head the four most important things I can recall were:

Hickory King dent corn in the yellow variety. Supposed to be one of the best corns for here in the Cotton Belt. I want to grow enough to supply all of our cornmeal.

Regal (I think) sweet potato. Very deep orange flesh (major carotenes) and keeps well. I like mine deep orange and sweet.

Seminole pumpkin. Native to Florida, very disease and vine borer resistant. Deep orange flesh. Ought to make good pies and baked squash.

Pinkeye Purple Hull field peas (Southern peas). I've grown these before. Very vigorous, sets a lot of peas, pretty fair disease resistance.

There's another nine or ten vegetables that I had marked off that I can't recall for sure now. We've moved since I looked at last year's catalog so I've got to go roust it out of whatever box it's still in.

.........Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), January 29, 2002.


Response to It's here! It's here! The SSE catalog is here!

Alan How do you become a member of sse? Im looking for Lancaster Sure Crop Seed Corn!! Does anyone have it listed in there? If so can anyone buy from them? Thanks Grizz!

-- Grizz In Western Maryland (southerneagle@yahoo.com), January 29, 2002.

Response to It's here! It's here! The SSE catalog is here!

Grizz,

Here's the SSE web site: http://www.seedsavers.org/

I have to use Explorer to look at their website, my Netscape seems to choke on it.

Their postal address:

Seed Savers Exchange 3076 North Winn Road Decorah, Iowa 52101

I seem to recall it costs about $30 a year to join and you get the huge yearbook listing who all has what in the way of varities in addition to several other publications at other times of the year.

R.H. Shumway also has Lancaster Sure Crop listed in their catalog.

.........Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), January 29, 2002.


Response to It's here! It's here! The SSE catalog is here!

Griz, the heirloom seed project run by the Landis Valley Museum also has Lancaster Surecrop.

They have 2 oz packages for $3.00, 1 lb packages for $14.00. There's a limit of 2 lbs. per customer.

-- Darren (df1@infi.net), January 29, 2002.



Response to It's here! It's here! The SSE catalog is here!

Thanks Alan!!

-- Grizz In Western Maryland (southerneagle@yahoo.com), January 29, 2002.

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