Hit the Dirt; Ordering Seeds

Good morning. This is Sadie aggressive yet if I hit the dirt my primary focus today was going to be main mail order catalogs until I read a piece in horticulture by Charles Elliot a regular country contributor who lives in England called vegetables at risk. It seems that in the 1960s the European Economic Community E.C. wanted to systemize the thousands of varieties of vegetables grown in Europe each country would have a national list that will go into a master common catalogue. This common catalogue is now in its 16th edition with five hundred pages. It contains both familiar and unusual varieties. If a variety is not listed it cannot be sold in the EEC and it becomes a pedantic past a pretty Sesemann pays two thousand eight hundred dollars to introduce a variety to the national list and two hundred forty dollars a year to keep it on. This is preceded by two years of mandatory trials. The cost becomes totally prohibitive. There was even talk of forbidding people even to collect seeds grandmothers old favorites can only be obtained through seed exchanges. One ray of hope is the

hundred double day Research Association a private foundation that is focusing on attacking and changing the U.S. regulations. And he runs the herit runs the heritage Seed program and works with Seed Savers in this country. There is a proud US interest in European seed seed saving and biodiversity than there is in the United States. In my garden I grow Russian and Italian tomatoes Rumanian peppers French melons lettuce and for the beans along with American variety is the way to prevent the disappearance of some of the wonderful heirloom varieties as to save and exchange seed in May and there is the main Seed Savers network P.O. Box 16 New Gloucester Maine 0 4 2 6 0. You can write for a free catalog. There are three main catalogs that carry a wide variety of open pollinated and organically grown Seeds Johnny seeds fossil road Albion Maine 0 4 9 1 0 pine tree seeds box 300 new grass to Maine 0 4 2 6 0

and 5 because seeds P.O. Box 5 20 Waterville Maine 0 4 9 0 3 among Johnny's introductions this year. Matts wild cherry. The seeds originating from wild tomato plants in eastern Mexico listed as perfect tasting cherry tomato. There's Jackson Wanda Bush lima bean that matures in 75 days and an album Pole be in Garden of Eden. That came to New Jersey in the 50s from Spain or Portugal. The seat of which has been saved ever since pantry