Sending You Your Seeds

Seed On It's Way!

I spent the last few days separating, organizing, and packaging seed.  I should have everything sent out by the end of the day.  I not only save seed, but I'm given LOTS of seed.  My husband and my son are commercial seed producers (the other son is a field man for a company that commerically produces sunflowers) .  They grow hybrid and op/organic seeds for Seeds by Design, Terra Organics, Sakata, Bonanza and on and on.  It's an interesting business.  My husband grows hybrid vine seeds (melons, cucumbers, squash).  With the hybrid seed you grow several rows of female seed and then a row of male...you harvest the female rows (for seed) and leave the males to rot or for me to feed to the livestock!  Whenever I explain this growing process people ask me how you can tell the males from the females: I always say "The males have a penis!"  I just can't help myself!  The truth is I don't know how they know...it just says male/female on the bags of seed!  I think the client must say "Hey! Let's cross an xyz watermelon with a zyx watermelon and let's see what we get"...other than that I just don't know.  I grow most of our produce.  I use organic open pollinated seeds and a few hybrids.  I save only op's...they seed true (if I pay attention and don't let them cross-pollinate!).  And every once in a while I accidentally create a veggie I like...and I collect the seed.

Harvesting the Females...the Males Feed the Flock!

So...I'm sending the seed out...I hope your gardens flourish...if you get a *surprise* veggie save the seed and send me some...pass on what you don't use...enjoy.  And if you have questions about hybrid or open seeds please ask me and I'll find out (I have a house full of seed experts)...I know sometimes you can't believe everything you read and it's nice to get it from the "horses mouth"...