Posted by EVP MAN on September 7, 2010, 4:55 pm
I had a very good mix of heirloom and hybrid tomatoes this year. The
hybrids looked better, tasted better and produced much better. Say what
you want about heirlooms but I won't give them garden space again.
Hybrids all the way for this PA gardener from now on!
Rich Zone 5-6
Posted by Billy on September 7, 2010, 5:34 pm
White_Noise_1@webtv.net (EVP MAN) wrote:
> I had a very good mix of heirloom and hybrid tomatoes this year. The
> hybrids looked better, tasted better and produced much better. Say what
> you want about heirlooms but I won't give them garden space again.
> Hybrids all the way for this PA gardener from now on!
>
> Rich Zone 5-6
I'm glad you are satisfied with your hybrids, but if there weren't
heirloom plants, don't you think the price of the hybrid plants would go
up? Just sayin'.
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- Billy
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Posted by EVP MAN on September 7, 2010, 8:43 pm
Yes I would imagine the price of seed would go up if it weren't for
heirlooms. However, I don't mind spending a few bucks for a pack of
seeds. For the home gardener, the price of seed don't matter near as
much as it would to a large commercial operation that sets thousands of
plants. My slow release granular fertilizer costs me a lot more than
seed :)
Rich
Posted by Billy on September 8, 2010, 2:52 pm
White_Noise_1@webtv.net (EVP MAN) wrote:
> Yes I would imagine the price of seed would go up if it weren't for
> heirlooms. However, I don't mind spending a few bucks for a pack of
> seeds. For the home gardener, the price of seed don't matter near as
> much as it would to a large commercial operation that sets thousands of
> plants. My slow release granular fertilizer costs me a lot more than
> seed :)
>
> Rich
I hear that the price of tomato seeds went up in Mozambique, a couple of
days ago.
<http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE6850AM20100906>
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html
Posted by <balvenieman on September 7, 2010, 7:24 pm
White_Noise_1@webtv.net (EVP MAN) wrote:
>The hybrids looked better, tasted better and produced much better. Say what
>you want about heirlooms but I won't give them garden space again.
>Hybrids all the way for this PA gardener from now on!
LOL! I expressed precisely the same viewpoint very much earlier this year.
Early on, I composted all of my "Brandywine" except one and, based on yield,
keeping _it_ was a waste of good dirt. As I see it, entertaining this, that, or
the-other "heirloom" is foisting upon oneself all of the reasons reliable
hybrids were developed in the first place. Who needs it? But then, again, I am
neither tomato connoisseur nor among the "heirloom" cognoscenti, I suppose.
Sentiment or some irrational "doomsday" fear are not among the reasons that I
grow vegetables.
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> hybrids looked better, tasted better and produced much better. Say what
> you want about heirlooms but I won't give them garden space again.
> Hybrids all the way for this PA gardener from now on!
>
> Rich Zone 5-6