Heirloom Seeds

[Patriot Heart]

If anyone is interested, here is a link to a neat heirlooom seed website

http://www.rareseeds.com/index.php?page=indexpage

[sunsettommy]

I have grown a few heirloom vegetables before.

They are good to eat.

I suggest anyone wanting a new variety this year to try a Heirloom variety.

The ones I have tried is Bennings Green tint squash,Jacobs cattle beans,Lincoln peas and more.

The seeds I bought were from a place in my state that sold old varieties.

[Charity]

PH
I got their catalog last month. They really do have some neat veggies and things in there.

[Etaoin]

I am a seed saver...that is to say that each year for my tomato plants I save the first to ripen, the tastiest, the largest, the meatiest, etc...

I now have Roma tomatoes that are so meaty that they have only 15 to 20 seeds.

1# and a 2 # tomato. So far, I haven't been able improve on the grape tomato.

I have a very nice mediium size tomato that is very solid.

This year I started some plants from seed several months ago instead of waiting until March to start the seeds. I hope to have tomatoes by the time one would normally plant the seedlings out of doors. (May Or June in our area)

The interesting thing is that for 2 years in a row, the first tomato to ripen for the table was a 1# variant of the heritage Brandywine.