Memories of yesterday

[Fusion_power]

I'm starting this thread just to reminisce about some past times. Feel free to contribute anything you like.


In 2003, a guy from Minnesota showed up on gardenweb with a site selling tomato seed and potato sets plus a generous selection of other veggies and flowers. His business lasted about 2 years before mysteriously disappearing. I never found out what happened to him though I had a suspicion it was some kind of legal difficulties. He refers to himself as the "wise old owl".

He carried some unique varieties such as Augsberg Gold potato and several pepper varieties that are no longer available. I traded some seed with him and wound up with a few unique varieties such as Deacon's Gift tomato. It is a huge red tomato with very good flavor but as he said on his description, it is "ugly as original sin". To my knowledge, I am the only person who still has this variety though I did send Suze a few seed to grow for 2011.

If you would like to look at his website sans graphics, it is stored on archive.org here.

http://web.archive.org/web/200302060...saukriver.org/

DarJones