Please keep us updated with respect to your book, and any other interesting things you are doing. We have missed you and Johnny a lot.
With respect to hybrids, I do have some. You can save those seeds, and you will get something, but it will not necessarily be the one you planted the first time. It might be the same as one of the “parent” plants.
So I concentrate on heirlooms to see which ones are strongest in my area, and I also save them so that I don’t have to spend money every year buying seeds. I sometimes buy the seed packages at the end of season at half price-those have some heirlooms, but often some hybrids.
Then I plant those the following spring. I am currently studying the long range weather patterns. Still working toward becoming more self sufficient and growing food year round. I keep my seed in a similar box, but sorted by year and placed in zip bag.
I have a running list of my seeds on the computer. Most recent purchase at the top, and drop off the oldest after 5 years. I print that page and fold it and put it on top of the box, so that I don’t have to open it to see what I have.
Great to hear from you. Please visit again and don’t be gone so long. LOL
About weather:
Bob is an earth scientist/geologist.
A few days ago, there was an 8 earthquake in Alaska.
When I read that to Bob, I said, “What now?” He said it would cause earthquakes south through California. He has taken seismic data from the west coast into the ocean and knows the layout of every earthquake zone there.
When will it happen - it’s according to how much stress those areas are already under. As far as California is concerned - fires, mud slides, earthquakes. People like to live there, it’s great unless one of those disasters happens where you live.
You have been planting and keeping records for many years. You have your act together.
The seeds I have in the box were all bought the same year. I’ll have to make a record now that I have these new ones. The old seeds are in alphabetical folders. I just need to make a document of which seeds are in each folder and the age of them. Everything got jumbled when I moved here.
I am not growing plants now. However, I did just buy a “Jiffy 60mm Tomato Starter Greenhouse 16”. I want to see if this thing really does start tomato seeds well. I have large planters to put the seedlings in, but there are 16 bird houses around this house, plus some squirrels. I’ll have to use nets to keep them out. Actually, I have a solid cover, not net, that lets sun and rain in but keeps out animals/birds. Even three or four producing tomato plants would be great to have.