Thank you Rick, yes I think too that a pea is a pea and I see what you mean about probably not getting much difference in quality for some things. I don't plan on doing any hybrid seeds at this time, but I do usually buy tomato and pepper plants which are probably hybrids. I don't care I guess because I won't save their seeds anyway. I am terrible with seeds, so I just stick with things I can't go wrong with. A pumpkin will grow just because it wants to, you don't have to do anything hardly!
There are wildly different types of pumpkins and squashes so I can see Rita, where they may turn out to be who knows what. I would think if both kinds were eatable and crossed that the resulting kind would be eatable also. I use the word eatable, (which surprisingly my spell check thingy is accepting as a word?), instead of edible, because of course you CAN eat them-they won't make you ill- but the fruit or rind is so hard or the texture yucky and it wouldn't BE edible, right... Well the seeds are not too pricey and most have a good yield for the money so maybe I'll just buy fresh seed on those each time I need to plant them. Rick, there are quite a few seeds in the pack and no way I'd plant them all at once, they'd probably root up through my foundation and strangle me lol, especially pumpkins. I imagine a package doing 3 years probably. I have only planted garden in the spring, but I wonder if a fall crop of squash would do any good, planted say the end of August? I think pumpkins would not do well as a fall crop because they take longer to mature? i guess it might depend on the variety.
Thanks for your thoughts!
