On 28/9/07 15:58, in article ,
"echinosum" wrote:


Sacha;750615 Wrote:
This is of interest to all those who buy seeds, both veg. and flowers:
http://tinyurl.com/yq6fd4

Apparently, several suppliers have been found to have dead seeds in
the
packets and some of them in very high numbers, too.
I read a report of this in a newspaper which said they had tested "400
seeds" from each supplier. I think this means they tested about 8
packets of seeds from each supplier. I think that is far too small a
sample in order to decide which are the rogues and which are the
reliable suppliers.

The fact that who were the rogues in relation to "flower seeds" had
very little correlation with who were the rogues in relation to
"vegetable seeds" suggests to me that the results had a substantial
random factor arising from it being a poorly designed experiment of
little statistical significance.



Could it reflect the conditions in which each is grown - flower or veg., I
mean? What the trial doesn't reveal is who supplied the suppliers,
themselves or outside sources.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'