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Old November 10, 2018   #1
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Hi Folks,
Great news! There's still time to join the Mostly Mystery 'Mater Mailing! The deadline's been extended. And it's easier than you think.
Basically, you send in seeds and get different seeds back.
Get some little seed bags. They can be plastic zip bags (craft store or possibly Wal-Mart, etc) or paper ones, like those little coin envelopes.
Put 5-10 seeds of a single variety in a seed bag, seal it, and put the variety name on the outside. Tomato seeds, flower seeds, other vegetable seeds, all are welcome. If you send pepper seeds, send more per packet. If you can spare 5 seeds out of your stash, you can participate.

Send the seed packets to Tormato, in a padded envelope. What goes in the envelope:
1. The seed packets.
2. A paper with your address on it that could be slapped on the evelope by Tormato when he sends your seeds to you.
3. Money or stamps for return postage.
Here's Tormato's address (between the elvises to fool any bots):

Gary Fitzgerald

22 Francis St.

Westfield, MA 01085
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DETAILS- read them or ignore them:
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It helps if you put the year the seeds were harvested (if you know) on the seed packet. You can put other info too, like your Tomatoville name, so folks can ask you questions about the seeds.
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You can add a Wishlist, of varieties you'd like. If they're available you'll get them. Alphabetical in columns, please.
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You can add an "Already have" list of varieties you own, so you don't get duplicates. Alphabetical in columns, please.
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The thread for talking about the MMMM is this
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=47846
It might be nice to let Tormato know you're planning to participate.


The thread for talking about the varieties you're sending in is this (if you don't want to know what people are sending in, don't go here):
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=47782
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There is the whole "categories" portion of the MMMMM if you have 10 or more packets of a single variety of tomato seeds, pepper, or bean seeds. Here's the deal:
1. Package up 10 or more packets of a single variety, as above.
2. Select one of the official Categories that fits your variety. Most tomatoes fit in more than one category. Pick the category you'd like to get back. If you send in 10 Brandywine seed packets, you could put it in the Pink category or the Beefsteak category. If you say the seeds are for the Pink category, you'll get back ten packets, 10 different varieties of Pink tomato. If you choose Beefsteak, you'll get back 10 packets, each a different variety of beefsteak. Write that variety & Category somewhere so Tormato will know what to send.
The Categories are:
Beefsteak
Black
Blue
Cherry/Grape/Currant
Cool Weather - maybe not enough demand for a category
Desert Island - Your ONE AND ONLY favorite variety (SunGold doesn't count)
Determinate/Dwarf (mostly Dwarf Project)/Micro-Dwarf
Eastern European
Experimental - (non-commercial) F1's, F2's, etc...
Giant - 3 lb+ potential, there may not be very many varieties sent in
Green
Heart
Hot Weather
Italian
Knock-Your-Socks-Off
Novelty - maybe not enough varieties or demand for a category
Oldies But Goodies - older varieties that are rarely seen/talked about anymore
Paste/Canner
Pink
Potato Leaf
Red
Striped
Tribbles - heavily ribbed, pleated, ridged, scalloped, fluted, ruffled beauties.
Very Early - 55 DTM or less
Yellow/Gold/Orange/Bi-color/Tri-color/White
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Old November 10, 2018   #2
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Stamps work just as well as money on that return postage - not to speak for Tormato.

I just posted on the MMMM thread about one variety. A different variety that I got from the MMMM was Pinky Blast. It's a little short plant around 18" to 24" tall. It grows cherry tomatoes that form on the upper parts of the plants - a lot like many pepper plants produce. I never would have even heard of Pinky Blast if not for someone sending in seeds to the MMMM.
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Old November 10, 2018   #3
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Thanks for the stamp reminder, Salt. I edited the first post to reflect that.
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Old November 11, 2018   #4
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Nan, I am very surprised to see your post in General Discussion, I really am,instead of Gary's own thread.

But then again didn't Gary say he was taking some time out b/c of his mother and didn't he also say she died,or am I not remembering correctly.

But by posting in General Discussion perhaps that might encourage others to also join instead of directly since his thread is not closed.Right?

Carolyn,who knew Gary WAY before almost any of you did.Ask him sometime,it had to do with cranberries and the commercial distributor Ocean Spray; juice, bagged whole, canned jelly, etc..
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Right, Carol, I started a new thread deliberately to communicate with people who AREN'T reading the MMMM thread.
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And to remind me . . . oops . . . I forgot to send return postage!!!

I have an envelope already addressed to Tormato - now just need to wait to get some $1 stamps.

Jeff

P.S. - My first year in the swap, I sent in the best, few seeds I had. You can probably guess 90% of them.

Tormato was very nice, and sent me back loads of great seeds. Each year, the seeds I sent in were better!

I have room to sponsor someone if you want to give it a go!
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Right, Carol, I started a new thread deliberately to communicate with people who AREN'T reading the MMMM thread.
I thought so.

Carolyn,not Carol as you wrote.
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I thought so.

Carolyn,not Carol as you wrote.
Oops, sorry Carolyn.
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I think I'll join, I thought it was just for tomatoes.
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Old November 11, 2018   #10
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That's great, Roper! Send in whatever you've got.
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Old November 11, 2018   #11
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Roper- tomatoes I think are still the spotlight, but this year I sent in only a handful of toms and a lot of non-tomato seeds of all sorts.
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I don't know if Tormato will respond or not? Nan, I think this thread is inspiring.
I don't personally don't know Tormato, but the fact that you made this thread - means that you care.
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Old November 12, 2018   #13
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The more folks who join in on the MMMM, the bigger and better the return packages will be!


That reminds me- if you have nothing to send in, or very little, but getting a bunch of seeds back sounds good, try asking for a sponsor- someone who sends in seeds on your behalf, and you get the nice full return package. JTJMartin has graciously offered to sponsor someone!
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Old November 18, 2018   #14
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If it's not too late, I can send mine in tomorrow.
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Max, that's great!
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