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greenthumbomaha · October 21, 2016

If you can wait till January, the Wal Mart seed rack carries Martha Washington seed in the 50 cent packages. There were about a hundred seeds in the pack and I immediately planted them all, several seeds to a cell, and had excellent germination. They were huge by spring but I decided to hold out planting them for a more modern Jersey variety. The roots in those cell packs were thick like the bare root plants and they made a nice ornamental container.

Do you grow the modern hybrids too?

- Lisa

October 21, 2016	#2
greenthumbomaha Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Omaha Zone 5 Posts: 2,514	If you can wait till January, the Wal Mart seed rack carries Martha Washington seed in the 50 cent packages. There were about a hundred seeds in the pack and I immediately planted them all, several seeds to a cell, and had excellent germination. They were huge by spring but I decided to hold out planting them for a more modern Jersey variety. The roots in those cell packs were thick like the bare root plants and they made a nice ornamental container. Do you grow the modern hybrids too? - Lisa Last edited by greenthumbomaha; October 21, 2016 at 12:18 AM. Reason: commas