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"Thos" wrote:

We have 10 year established beds, heavily amended with organic matter, lava
sand, green sand, soft rock phosphate and organic fertilizer. After reading
how buying tomato starts which can be contaminated with blight, we ordered
seed for heirloom tomatoes from an Oregon supplier. We started the seeds in
flats in the portable greenhouse, and then moved them outside when it warmed
up, the transplanted them to the garden. We started the seeds in mid
February. Out of the greenhouse by mid to late March and into the garden.
Today, all of the transplants are over 5 feet tall with no indication of
blight and strong healthy fruit. I'll never buy starts again.
If anyone wants photos of these plants, I'll be happy to oblige.
Happily gardening in paradise....(zone 8) in North Texas...expecting 102
degrees by Saturday...

BTW...I won't bore you with the amazing asparagus beds...lol

The fungus can come on the seeds too, so only deal with reputable
sources, but even then, they may have suppliers, freakin' "global
economy". Your seeds could come from China, or worse, and you would
never know, until the recall.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
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