well I am wrong. It isnt just the home gardener that is being screwed.
Germination is really simple. the company does germination tests and doesnt sell
seed with less than 90% germination, and then they over package to make up for the
10% loss. that way people pay for 1000 seeds that germinate and get 1,100 to make
sure!!
now there are categories of seeds that are very very difficult, that is a different
story. If they can only get 50% of those seeds to germinate, then they sell 100
seeds at the rate for 50 seeds. And state it up front!!
Just imagine if we bought cars and only 50% of them worked. Or only 50% of our
clothes were properly stitched together and fell off on the first wearing. Or only
50% of the milk wasnt sour. There is no excuse for companies selling crap seeds.
that being said. places DO sell last years seeds, and they should be sued for doing
that .. by the seed companies if not the consumers. Ingrid


"None" wrote:
Last year we used over 4,000,000 seed with an average cost of $18 per
thousand and ended with 92% germination. $5,760 never germinated. I'm not
blaming the seed company, I took the risk.


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