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Hi Folks,
Great news! There's still time to join the Mostly Mystery 'Mater Mailing! The deadline's been extended. And it's easier than you think.
Basically, you send in seeds and get different seeds back.
Get some little seed bags. They can be plastic zip bags (craft store or possibly Wal-Mart, etc) or paper ones, like those little coin envelopes.
Put 5-10 seeds of a single variety in a seed bag, seal it, and put the variety name on the outside. Tomato seeds, flower seeds, other vegetable seeds, all are welcome. If you send pepper seeds, send more per packet. If you can spare 5 seeds out of your stash, you can participate.

Send the seed packets to Tormato, in a padded envelope. What goes in the envelope:
1. The seed packets.
2. A paper with your address on it that could be slapped on the evelope by Tormato when he sends your seeds to you.
3. Money or stamps for return postage.
Here's Tormato's address (between the elvises to fool any bots):

Gary Fitzgerald

22 Francis St.

Westfield, MA 01085
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DETAILS- read them or ignore them:
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It helps if you put the year the seeds were harvested (if you know) on the seed packet. You can put other info too, like your Tomatoville name, so folks can ask you questions about the seeds.
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You can add a Wishlist, of varieties you'd like. If they're available you'll get them. Alphabetical in columns, please.
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You can add an "Already have" list of varieties you own, so you don't get duplicates. Alphabetical in columns, please.
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The thread for talking about the MMMM is this
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=47846
It might be nice to let Tormato know you're planning to participate.


The thread for talking about the varieties you're sending in is this (if you don't want to know what people are sending in, don't go here):
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=47782
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There is the whole "categories" portion of the MMMMM if you have 10 or more packets of a single variety of tomato seeds, pepper, or bean seeds. Here's the deal:
1. Package up 10 or more packets of a single variety, as above.
2. Select one of the official Categories that fits your variety. Most tomatoes fit in more than one category. Pick the category you'd like to get back. If you send in 10 Brandywine seed packets, you could put it in the Pink category or the Beefsteak category. If you say the seeds are for the Pink category, you'll get back ten packets, 10 different varieties of Pink tomato. If you choose Beefsteak, you'll get back 10 packets, each a different variety of beefsteak. Write that variety & Category somewhere so Tormato will know what to send.
The Categories are:
Beefsteak
Black
Blue
Cherry/Grape/Currant
Cool Weather - maybe not enough demand for a category
Desert Island - Your ONE AND ONLY favorite variety (SunGold doesn't count)
Determinate/Dwarf (mostly Dwarf Project)/Micro-Dwarf
Eastern European
Experimental - (non-commercial) F1's, F2's, etc...
Giant - 3 lb+ potential, there may not be very many varieties sent in
Green
Heart
Hot Weather
Italian
Knock-Your-Socks-Off
Novelty - maybe not enough varieties or demand for a category
Oldies But Goodies - older varieties that are rarely seen/talked about anymore
Paste/Canner
Pink
Potato Leaf
Red
Striped
Tribbles - heavily ribbed, pleated, ridged, scalloped, fluted, ruffled beauties.
Very Early - 55 DTM or less
Yellow/Gold/Orange/Bi-color/Tri-color/White
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