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Title: Buy Made in the USA (A Reference)
Source: Devvy.com
URL Source: http://www.devvy.com/made_inthe_usa.html
Published: Sep 18, 2010
Author: Devvy Kidd
Post Date: 2010-09-18 22:07:17 by Original_Intent
Keywords: Buy, Made, in the, USA
Views: 1596
Comments: 15

I make no secret that their are some country's goods which I simply will not buy if I can at all avoid - the main two are Israel and China and I would strongly encourage other people to do the same it is an ethical choice and you vote with your dollars.

However, if at all possible I try to buy U.S. made goods, and that is the reason for this post. I was checking out Devvy Kidd's website today and noticed the "Buy Made in the USA" button/link so I clicked on it. What I found is a long list of companies that either manufacture and sell direct to consumers or who are retailers that deal only in U.S. made goods. So, I thought that it would be a public service for other like minded people.

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Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-09-19   0:41:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

You're welcome.

I liked the link to Lehman's. Although I have to admit my favorite wood cook stove among their collection was the British made AGA, but at 6295 plus shipping it is going to stay on the wish list.

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Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-09-19   10:59:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

On heirloom varieties they are all "Open Pollinated". What that means is that they are not hybrids, an unstable cross, and will breed true to type allowing for minor genetic variation and unintended crosses with other varieties of the same type.

So, the answer is that you can save seed from your plants produced this year. A good reference book for that is "From Seed To Seed". Tomatoes are one of the easiest as they are self fertile and Cherry Tomatoes are notorious for this (the formal term is "Parthenocarpic" - meaning that it bears seed producing fruit without cross pollination between at least two varieties - Blueberries are partially so but you'll get a much bigger yield having 2 or more varieties located relatively close together so that the bees visit both and cross pollinate). I had several "volunteers" that I grew out this year - a red cherry and a black plum tomato. Open pollinated carrots are bi-annual meaning they produce seed in the second year not the first. There you have to carefully dig out the ones you've marked for seed, put them point down in sand in a cool but protected place and then re-plant them in Spring to produce seed.

So, having gone the long way around. Unless you actively save seed then you need to buy seed for next year's garden. Tomatoes that drop to the ground will often produce "volunteers" when the seed sprouts in the spring, but you'll get variable results. As well the other reason to buy seed is try new varieties. I have varieties I like growing every year (for Tomatoes it is Stupice and Jaune Flamme) but like this year I grew those along with a couple of varieties of cherry tomatoes and several varieties of larger tomatoes which I had either not grown before or it had been a couple years. My favorite red for this year was a new one, "Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red", which has a nice full rich flavor that I like. The only knock on it is that the plant is not real big and so the production is only so-so for one plant. Also they are smallish for a medium sized tomato - larger than Stupice but smaller than Sioux (my long favorite mid-season red tomato and the improved version Super Sioux, Super Lakotah for the PC, are more productive with the same great flavor - origninally released by the University of Nebraska in 1944).

Different Seed types have different lifespans and some can be used for more than one year. Not onions though. After one year they are as dead as a door nail. I have germinated tomato seed as much as 8 years old. It was spotty though. I did 4 starts with 4 seeds each. One produced nothing, one produced all four germinations, one produced three and another two. The rule of thumb on tomatoes is 3 years and the germination rate will go down with each year. Beans are among the longest viable - the record being the recovery of the Anansazi Bean which was done from seeds that were at least 800 or 900 years old. And I am glad that the Univ. of New Mexico was able to do it because it is one of my favorite culinary beans. Hopefully I answered your question without being too prolix.

If you want suggestions on varieties let me know as I have probably grown at least 50 varieties of tomatoes and 20 or so varieties of melons.

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