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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (559)	4/8/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: micky	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3496

Got a couple of cats to handle the mice here. Started seeds indoors and out. Some hybrid tomatoes (will buy potted big girls and beef steaks at the nursery when the time comes) and chilies (Billy the Biker was at the flower show and got some of his seeds - Burpee ... says on the package to handle them with rubber gloves!) Also some eggplant (got a few last year) - The squash are in the ground. And beans and snow peas... etc. Also, flower seeds started inside include cosmos (they come up from seed outside but take longer to flower), delphinians (probably won't bloom this year but keep trying year in and out) and other stuff. will get proper names. Use Thompson and Shepard seeds alot (get at the flower show). Apricot tree (planted about five years ago when it was a sprout about 6 inches) is now about 10 feet and blooming all over for the first time. Will I get fruit this year? Off to plant dahlias after this. Roses doing well, trimmed and growing . Can't wait for more than daffadils and forsythia. The peonies and phlox are zooming, and astilbe, and and and....... Tomorrow's supposed to be dreary.

To: Crocodile who wrote (559)	4/11/1999 6:37:00 AM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

here's a source of seeds for peppers/chilies: (though I admit, I haven't ordered from them) Horticultural Enterprises P.O. Box 810082 Dallas Texas 75381-0082 Some facts about chilies(from the order form) -The first hot peppers were sent back to Europe by Christopher Columbus -Chilies have been an important part of the west and southwest for thousands of years. The first recorded U.S. chili was 1598 in Santa Fe, NM. Processing of green chiles first occurred in 1889 in California and New Mexico. -An Aztec Emperor of Mexico, Emperor Moctezuma(1480?-1520), had a favorite dish that was made from fish and chilies. -There are hundreds of different kinds of chilies in the world -Chilies(peppers) are high in vitamin "A" and "C". The vitamin "C" content almost doubles when they turn red. The vitamin "C" content has been proven to be greater than that of oranges and other citrus. Some believe the hotter the chili, the higher the vitamin content. -Store unused seed in a tightly sealed, moisture-proof container in the refrigerator.* _________))))))))))))))))))) I save my seeds, but I don't put them in the frig. I just dry and seal them in zip lock baggies and keep them in an old wine box with the rest of my seeds and keep them in the basement. Never had a germination problem-though I plant like 4-5 seeds per pot, and snip all but the strongest once they get going. Here comes the rain beating hard on the roof. Big heavy drops. Dawn is breaking as well. Why am I up so early?