Homework assignment from Teacher_Mike

bully · March 6, 2006

I recently got a very enchanting letter from none other than Teacher_Mike

I turns out that he has stumbled upon some tomato seeds...well I'll let him tell the story

I have something that I'd like to send along to you, if you are up for a challenge and have room for one or two more.

Last summer I was at an old-time country farm estate auction. The auctioneer was selling items from a row in the yard. He came to an old lard can and said it was filled with seeds. He pulled out a couple of old coffee jars to show the crowd, stuffed them back in, and asked for a dollar.

Needless to say, a few seconds later I owned that can (for $1.25...big spender here.)

The can contained a number of seeds and seed packets. There was one jar with masking tape on the outside that said "yellow tomato." I can't be sure if it is leftover seed of a hybrid or an heirloom OP variety, as I have no
other info. (For that matter, I don't even know if it will be yellow, really.) There were some beans in jars which appeared to be saved seed, as well as a lot of flower seeds that were clearly saved seed. There were also
flower seeds sent from friends, still wrapped in foil or plastic and in original mailing envelopes with little handwritten notes attached, and some seeds in commercial packets. It appeared from dates on packets and mailing dates on envelopes that most of the seeds were from the early '90s, although one seed pack was from the 70s and some were late 90s....

The rest of the letter trailed off into incoherent ramblings laced with profanity..I think he may have been grading papers

My first decision was obvious, I'll take these seeds from Teacher_Mike divvy them up into lots of 6 and sell them for $24.00 each!! 8)

But then I had the more rational, albeit less inspired, idea of sharing them with the likes of you.

I have 120 seeds and plan on keeping 20.
The rest I will divide into lots of 20 and offer them to the first 7 people that are interested.(2 of you will be receiving early girl as a placebo

)
I'm kidding about the placebo but not the mystery yellow tomato seeds.

Any takers?

March 6, 2006	#1
bully Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: S.E. MI Posts: 794	Homework assignment from Teacher_Mike I recently got a very enchanting letter from none other than Teacher_Mike I turns out that he has stumbled upon some tomato seeds...well I'll let him tell the story I have something that I'd like to send along to you, if you are up for a challenge and have room for one or two more. Last summer I was at an old-time country farm estate auction. The auctioneer was selling items from a row in the yard. He came to an old lard can and said it was filled with seeds. He pulled out a couple of old coffee jars to show the crowd, stuffed them back in, and asked for a dollar. Needless to say, a few seconds later I owned that can (for $1.25...big spender here.) The can contained a number of seeds and seed packets. There was one jar with masking tape on the outside that said "yellow tomato." I can't be sure if it is leftover seed of a hybrid or an heirloom OP variety, as I have no other info. (For that matter, I don't even know if it will be yellow, really.) There were some beans in jars which appeared to be saved seed, as well as a lot of flower seeds that were clearly saved seed. There were also flower seeds sent from friends, still wrapped in foil or plastic and in original mailing envelopes with little handwritten notes attached, and some seeds in commercial packets. It appeared from dates on packets and mailing dates on envelopes that most of the seeds were from the early '90s, although one seed pack was from the 70s and some were late 90s.... The rest of the letter trailed off into incoherent ramblings laced with profanity..I think he may have been grading papers My first decision was obvious, I'll take these seeds from Teacher_Mike divvy them up into lots of 6 and sell them for $24.00 each!! 8) But then I had the more rational, albeit less inspired, idea of sharing them with the likes of you. I have 120 seeds and plan on keeping 20. The rest I will divide into lots of 20 and offer them to the first 7 people that are interested.(2 of you will be receiving early girl as a placebo ) I'm kidding about the placebo but not the mystery yellow tomato seeds. Any takers?