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Feb 12, 2022Liked by Deda Edney

Great Information Deda!

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This was fascinating I posted a link to this on the Asheville Plant People Facebook group and people are enjoying it.

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Thank you for sharing this post, Isabel. I wonder where the world is now, 22 years later, as far as seed sustainability.

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I don't really know anything about sustainability but I do know that seeds I store in the refrigerator will be viable for many years.

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For the first time we've stored seeds in the refrigerator in a bag in the vegetable drawer and will plant them directly in the ground after the no-frost date. We decided not to try sprouting them in pots first.

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I think you will be pleased.

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When I was in college, I worked with a botany professor who was studying the effects of auxins and gibberellins (plant hormones) in Xanthium pennsylvanicum (cockleburs)...most interesting!

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Helen, this is fascinating. It's a wonderful, beneficial field. I've always wanted to be a researcher in my next life.

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Really interesting. I remember when she was there. Awesome stamps

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The internet was just catching on then in 2000. My son came from Atlanta and brought me a computer, and soon after that a friend from Louisiana set me up with gmail. That made it easier for me to handle the distance between North Carolina and Africa!

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