New SSE Yearbook arrived

[garnetmoth]

got mine yesterday. YEEEHAW!

[gflynn]

Mine was in the mail last night. It's my first time listing and I listed Russian and Isabella. This year I will look for another that is held only by seed saver and grow it out. If it works out I will list that one next year

[Rena]

Mine is not here yet.....

[carolyn137]

Does anyone think it would be beneficial to start a thread where Tomatoville members who list in SSE Yearbook post up the varieties they listed in the 2007 Yearbook?

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I'm not so sure. Yes, it might be interesting to see which Tville members listed which varieties.

No, it may not be useful since folks using the Yearbook aren't looking for who listed what, rather, are looking for different specific varieties or just reading through to see what might interest them.

As for me, I think I'm listing only about 24 or so, but since 2001, unlike previous years, I list only those that are new to all and have not been listed by anyone else.

And what varieties am I offering?

Well, I'd have to tediously, as you said PV, flip through the pages to see what I did list, or maybe I still have that written down somewhere.

[montanamato]

I think it would be helpful to list all varieites...Last year I ordered varieties from people on a couple occasions, only to discover later they had other varieties on my wanted list too.
For instance, this year there is a variety I want from a member , and I hate to order just one, but for the life of me I have gone crosseyed looking for this persons other listings, to see if they didn't have something else I have wanting to grow...
I don't think SSE should be treated like a seed catalog, but I surely don't expect to relist everything I request, simply some may not grow well (or at all) here, and taste or other aspects may not warrant regrowing...I order with the intention to relist if the variety works for my area and my taste.
I am only offering 2 varieties this year, but imagine the number will rise sharply in coming years...

Jeanne

[bcday]

Carolyn, do you hear dogs barking in the distance? The huskies were here this morning! No doubt they want to get back to their nice warm kennel before the REAL cold weather gets here this week.

The mailman must have been happy to get that heavy thing out of his bag, because I could guess without looking that the Yearbook had arrived when I heard the unnecessary clatter he made with the mailbox

[carolyn137]

Carolyn, do you hear dogs barking in the distance?

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I did, I did, and they came right up my road and turned in into my newly snow covered driveway and the sled driver put the new 2007 Yearbook and my other mail right atop the upturned wicker basket that stands just inside my front door.

I have one of those Federal USPS disability thingies since there's no way I can get to my mailbox out by the road in winter, or indeed most of the year b'c it isn't smart to go out in winter with my walker as I found out this past Tuesday when trying to get to a surgeon's appt.

So there goes the rest of today as I settle in for the day to see who has what and where and why and when, and what the relistings are for my varieties, etc.

I also got a catalog from a seed Co in NM that was the result of a merger between Harvest Moon, Italian Tool and Seeds and I forget what else. Interesting reading, that one, as well. Haven't made up my mind on that one except they say that the variety Dr. Carolyn was named for me and was from Siberia. NOT!!! Had they said from Galina's Yellow, which is from Siberia, that would be different, but there is a tomato variety called Siberia.

I think it's time to go throw some food at the husky team and some good chocolate to the driver.



bc, take a look at my entry for Perito Italian if you will.

And note in the pages in the front with the individual blurbs that I did thank you and Shoe for seed production and I thank you again, so very very much.

[Rena]

THAT IS IT.... I am starting to believe the mailman has my book!!! WAAAAA! I just checked it's not here. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[carolyn137]

I finished reading thru the tomato section at about 8 PM tonight and boy am I steamed.

I think I'll try and sleep it off tonight and then in a more calm manner start a separate thread on what I'm referring to as being steamed.

Tania and Andrey, you both have made significant contributions with your listings/

And Tania, how long did it take you to copy down what I've said about so many of theose varieties? The fact is that with quite a few of them had you not done that some of the histories would have been lost again, which is one of the reasons I'm steamed......histories not being carried forward.

But trust me, I've got a lot more to be steamed about.

[pooklette]

I just got my copy in the mail today. I'm so excited! I joined SSE in the fall so this is my very first Yearbook to drool over. I feel like a kid on Christmas.

I want to become a listing member next year. So, if I'm understanding this correctly...all I have to do is fill out the handy-dandy form SSE will mail out in September and send it in, right? Does the submission of that form automatically make you a listing member for the next year or do you need to fill out any additional forms?

And note to self...make sure to find out the history of any variety I relist next year... :wink:

[feldon30]

Originally Posted by pooklette

I want to become a listing member next year. So, if I'm understanding this correctly...all I have to do is fill out the handy-dandy form SSE will mail out in September and send it in, right? Does the submission of that form automatically make you a listing member for the next year or do you need to fill out any additional forms?

You've got it!

Originally Posted by pooklette

And note to self...make sure to find out the history of any variety I relist next year... :wink:

Yes!! Very important!

[Tania]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Tania and Andrey, you both have made significant contributions with your listings/

And Tania, how long did it take you to copy down what I've said about so many of theose varieties? The fact is that with quite a few of them had you not done that some of the histories would have been lost again, which is one of the reasons I'm steamed......histories not being carried forward.

Carolyn, I am sure it took me a while to collect and record the histories I could find. But I try to find all available info at the time I order/request the seeds, so all this write-up was not all happening at the same time

Thank you very much Carolyn for getting me into this! It turned into a serious addiction over the last 4 years...

[Suze]

I still don't have my yearbook, but I did just find out that all my listings weren't included.

Not sure why, especially considering they were sent in via Excel.

So I am not a happy camper right now.

[feldon30]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

One of the reasons I'm steamed......histories not being carried forward.

My initial conclusion is that people don't want to write all that detail on the SSE submission form, so they keep it short and sweet, or maybe they don't realize they can e-mail a text, Word, or Excel file, so they leave out the history. And maybe some people don't want to swell the pages of the book with multiple copies of the same description. I think a lot of people just leave out the description figuring someone else will put it. Without knowing who is going to list or what descriptions they'll use until the book comes out, it's difficult to plan. I would NOT like to see each person put the full history over and over.

I WOULD like to see each variety start out with a "reference" description with historical information, original source, and fruit and plant characteristics. Then fellow listers can either agree to that description, or they can add their own information and/or state local differences that they experience (for instance, I will list Barksdale Wax Pole Bean as potentially being a good fall bean crop for Houston on top of the existing description).

Then again I have a million suggestions on how the SSE yearbook could look, and I say this as someone who makes their living as a graphic designer and who has done professional documentation. In the same space, with the same number of pages, still black-and-white.

[carolyn137]

Then again I have a million suggestions on how the SSE yearbook could look, and I say this as someone who makes their living as a graphic designer and who has done professional documentation. In the same space, with the same number of pages, still black-and-white.

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I have a million suggestions as well Morgan.

And I'm afraid I didn't express myself clearly, b'c it would be a huge waste of space if everyone gave the history for a variety. And fact # 2; there are no histories for the majority of varieties listed.

My problem is when someone doesn't have a clue and gives a different history than the correct one. And it can take just a word or two.

One example would be the person who suggests that Orange Strawberry is a mutant of German Red Strawberry and since my history of OS is no where to be seen folks might well think that it is, which is wrong.

There are many such examples.

But as I said, there were several other things that I wanted to call attention to folks here, and that's why I said I wanted to start a new thread b/c if it's buried on page 3 here perhaps it would not be read by all current and possible future members of SSE.