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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

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1. It almost brings tears to my eyes

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Mon Apr 8, 2013, 06:29 PM

Apr 2013

that you have done so much work with these tomatoes, and have worked so hard to find them.

But I have to ask, if these tomatoes were in the USDA collection, why were they thought to be extinct? Were the seeds so old that they didn't expect them to be good? Or had they just forgotten about them or misplaced them? How did you get access to the USDA collection?

I love that you do this!

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It almost brings tears to my eyes Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #1

Thanks so much....your response made me smile! NRaleighLiberal Apr 2013 #2

Wow, you mean that the government had foresight? Curmudgeoness Apr 2013 #3