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Old January 19, 2007   #16
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dcarch so how many days did it take to warm it up????
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dcarch, they're lying to you.
Those plugs are not for cars.

THEY'RE FOR TOMATOES!
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You can tell Dingbat's from Toronto where winter, never, ever comes (and if it does they call in the Canadian Army .
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Old January 19, 2007   #19
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Lilypon SCORES!!!!

Pretty cute! Wouldn't even occur to me that one could grow tomatoes in Sascratchyoura*s!

This has to be over now. Way off topic, and getting silly!
Maybe our fearless leader can start a new forum and call it something like "For Youse Hosers, Eh?"
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Sandhill Preservation with over 400 tomato varieties listed also sends to Canada. Low prices, fresh seeds and a good reputation for seed purity, but not perfectr b'c no place selling OP seed is perfect.

About the dark colored seeds. For sure I've let some fermentations go too far, especially when I was still working and had problems, time wise, processing all the containers I'd set up. But even when the seeds were a darker brown the seed viability was OK.

It may be a different story if someone lets the liquid in the fermentation container get so low that the entire contents have dried out, but I've not done that.
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Thank you for the tip on Sandhill Preservation, Carolyn! I have just now sent an e-mail to request a catalog. Should have plenty of time to order seed for this year.

Their home page was rather funny!
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Should have plenty of time to order seed for this year.

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You should indeed. In years past Glenn and Linda have gotten behind in sending out orders but this year they have another person helping.

When you read at their site you'll not see the fact that this is primarily a hobby business, gasp, b'c Glenn has a full time job teaching HS Science.

And what was it that you found so funny at their home page?

Maybe the chicken logo? If so, when you read you'll also find out that they maintain a huge number of heirloom poultry. And I'm one who just loves to read about the Shmoos and other varieties but I'm not ordering poultry for my backyard.
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I enjoyed the blurb under the heading "Patience". It's refreshing when a small company can 'tell it like it is'.
And they don't kill baby chicks.

But the cattle they're breeding at Heritage Farm is to die for.

The effort these places put into preserving plants and animals is mind boggling.
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Quote:
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dcarch so how many days did it take to warm it up????
Never mind the car. It took 3 days and one bottle of Glen Breton Rare to warm me up.

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dcarch, they're lying to you.
Those plugs are not for cars.
THEY'RE FOR TOMATOES!
Q: “So why does an electric tomato hum? “
A: “Because it doesn’t remember the words.”

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That's a real groaner, dcarch.

Did you not notice the plugs hanging out of the front of the cars while you were crusin' down the Calgary Trail or the Whitemud? They make the cars look like they have tongues.
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That's a real groaner, dcarch.

Did you not notice the plugs hanging out of the front of the cars while you were crusin' down the Calgary Trail or the Whitemud? They make the cars look like they have tongues.
I did go to Calgary after Edmonton and ran into Al Duerr and his wife Kit.

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Sorry, a 747 just parted my hair.
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"Al Duerr and his wife Kit"

Former Mayor of Calgary.

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Ahhh! I'd only know of them had Mr. Duerr sent in the army to clear snow. I understand that Edmonton is cutting back on the snow clearing of the side streets these past few years.
I sent my sister snow-shoes for Christmas.
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Torontonians are a wee bit touchy (obviously ) about one certain mayor who hit the panic button quickly (soldiers were flown in from *all* across the country to shovel their *snow*). This is in a country that has snow from Oct to March.....except spoiled southern Ontario.



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