http://www.smallestsmallholding.com/sweetcorn-planting-no-more-lone-sweetcorn/ A young would-be smallholder trying to live the good life in her own backyard smallholding Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:53:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.smallestsmallholding.com/sweetcorn-planting-no-more-lone-sweetcorn/#comment-544 Thomas Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:44:06 +0000 http://www.smallestsmallholding.com/sweetcorn-planting-no-more-lone-sweetcorn/#comment-544 @Lucy: I know about that feeling of cheating. For me it has got something to do with freedom. If I buy plants I'm in bed with the supermarkets and whatever money making ideas they come up with. Plus I can only pay with money, so I have to make some. Worse is that deep down buying seeds also makes me feel a little ashamed, because it's not real freedom when we're dealing with terminator seeds and big money chasing corporations. Hmm, I guess I'm a seed collector wannabe ;-) @Lucy: I know about that feeling of cheating. For me it has got something to do with freedom. If I buy plants I’m in bed with the supermarkets and whatever money making ideas they come up with. Plus I can only pay with money, so I have to make some. Worse is that deep down buying seeds also makes me feel a little ashamed, because it’s not real freedom when we’re dealing with terminator seeds and big money chasing corporations. Hmm, I guess I’m a seed collector wannabe

]]> http://www.smallestsmallholding.com/sweetcorn-planting-no-more-lone-sweetcorn/#comment-541 Hamster Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:04:09 +0000 http://www.smallestsmallholding.com/sweetcorn-planting-no-more-lone-sweetcorn/#comment-541 I bought pepper plants as I failed miserably at growing them from seeds. And my dad bought everything as plants cos he was working loads when he should have been planting seeds and missed the window. He even bought carrot plants. I think life's too short to feel bad about it, though, as it is still much less cheating than buying it in the shops!! And after all if you'd been a purist and just kept the two sweetcorn plants you'd grown from seed, they'd not have been pollinated, so really you were just doing them a favour... I bought pepper plants as I failed miserably at growing them from seeds. And my dad bought everything as plants cos he was working loads when he should have been planting seeds and missed the window. He even bought carrot plants. I think life’s too short to feel bad about it, though, as it is still much less cheating than buying it in the shops!! And after all if you’d been a purist and just kept the two sweetcorn plants you’d grown from seed, they’d not have been pollinated, so really you were just doing them a favour…

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