On 2/9/2015 4:33 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
One of my San Marzano tomatoes has different leaves , heart shaped rather
than lobed like all the rest . Wonder what it'll grow ? Guess I'll just have
to wait and see ... I have that seedling marked , and plan to keep track of
where it gets planted
Pretty much everything has come up now except the anaheims and jalapenos ,
but they'll get there . Some of the tomatoes are almost 4" tall now .
Hopefully I can get to the end of February before I have to go to the 4"
pots . By then I'll have my "little greenhouse" built onto the south side
of the house and will have room for them .

That sounds pretty normal for a given package of seeds.

Several years ago my gave up on buying packages of Blue Lake pole green
bean seed. Usually 3 out of 8 plants would be some other kind of bean.
So now we let some of the pods mature and save their seeds for next year.

Last year we planted acorn squash seeds. Pulled all but two. One turned
out to be cross with a pumpkin. Huge acorn squash that were hollow and
tasted like pumpkin. Deer got all the rest.

Each seed in a tomato is from a different particle of pollen on the
mother flower. You never know where the insect has been before it got to
the flower that was the source of your seed.

My wife has some tomato plants germinated and a couple of egg plants.
Still 2 months away from when we can work the garden and plant the early
stuff here in the Central Oregon desert.

Did you get my email relating to the Coombs ferry on the White river in
Missouri?

Paul