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Gardening

NRaleighLiberal

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3. You wouldn't believe the various smaller seed companies/websites

Reply to HuckleB (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 3, 2015, 05:03 PM

Jul 2015

that falsify variety histories to create a buzz that lead to sales. I've seen a tomato I named, Cherokee Purple (an old Tennessee variety I named in 1990), described as "an old, rare eastern European variety finally available for the first time due the fall of the Iron Curtain"!

Of course, when you point these things out, you are either met with anger...or just ignored.

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There are no GMO seeds sold to home gardeners. [View all] HuckleB Jun 2015 OP

Gardening is certainly just as vulnerable as anything else to hype, advertising, and NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #1

Ugh. It's just plain old depressing. HuckleB Jul 2015 #2

You wouldn't believe the various smaller seed companies/websites NRaleighLiberal Jul 2015 #3

Alas, I do believe it. HuckleB Jul 2015 #4