Lucky, you're in luck :), I went looking for these seeds myself and finally found a source, they should be arriving in the mail any day now, shoot me an email and we'll work something out. Annette

I'm interested in buying Montreal melon seeds. Can you give specific seed companies that handle them? Beatrice, Since I see no Canadians answering your question, as of yet, I did a Google search; Google is your friend. ( smile) Greta's Organic is one Canadian Co that sells seeds and I think Solana is as well, but I'll be darned if I'm going to wait for 200 pictures to download. LOL I don't know how good either Greta's or Solana really are since I 've seen varying opinions on both. Carolyn Here is a link that might be useful: Montral Melon seeds; Greta's Organic

Field corn, yellow- Leaming corn, In this area it does better than Reid's Yellow Dent. It has big fat ears that mature sooner and dry down better. Field corn, white- Hickory King, It produced great despite one of the worst droughts we've ever had. I want to try Boone County White also. Sweet Corn- Golden Bantum, It grows like weeds and tastes good, not to sweet. It tastes like corn instead of like the nasty, super dooper, sugary ehanced hybrids. Beans- An unknown cranberry type I bought at the hardware store from a bulk bin four years ago. It produces very well and makes a good soup or snap bean. Yellow eye also does well here as a dry bean. Tomatos- Red Brandywine which I originaly got from Heirloom Seeds in Pennsylvania. It's the best tasting tomato I've ever had. Winter Squash- Walthum Butternut. It yeilds well, has good disease resistance, tastes good in pies. Summer Squash- Yellow Crookneck. It is easy to grow and tastes great. Potatoes- Anything from the grocery store that has a lot of sprouting eyes. Some people say don't plant those old potatoes from the grocery store but I've never had a problem with them. For some reason they just seem to grow as well as any seed potatoe sold at the hardware store. Peanuts- Raw Virginia jumbo peanuts sold at the grocery store as food. For seed it works just fine. Tobacco- Pennsylvania Seedleaf varieties also known as Pennsylvania Broadleaf which is better than any I've found for cigar filler, binder or wrapper. Virginia Gold, It's just one of the best for any type of filler. Any type of Burley filler, binder or wrapper. Pumpkins- New England pie pumkin. It produces well and is strong. It also tastes good. I want to try the Winter Luxury Pie variety though. I think it might taste even better but the New England Pie has done well for me. Okra- I had very good luck with a dwarf hybrid but you can't save seed. I think I will stick with the Clemson Spineless from now on as it also does well and I can save the seed.

So far the melons are doing well. Rain caused about a 3 week delay in planting. Three weeks sounds minor but can be near tragic when growing in such a tight season. For the sake of some of the watermelons, I hope we make it up on the back end. I did change some of what I'm growing due to the late start. But not many. I won't bore you with everything I'm growing this year. But a few notes until I start harvesting. Bill, based on your feedback on Ambrosia I am growing it this year. They're looking good. So far they are prolific beautiful vines. I noticed today that several are getting their netting. Charentais and Petit Gris De Rennes are constants in my garden. Charentais are looking near perfect. I noticed new fruits on one Petit Gris De Rennes vine drying and dying after they get a little size. A lot of wilt on that vine. I injected the vine with BT. I also planted Sucrin de Tours and Montreal Melon from our conversations last year. I've been watching and cheering the Montreal Melons. Sucrin has decent fruit set but gets less attention and no encouragement. If there was a bas_tard child of that patch, Surin would be it. But with the delay in planting I feel Montreal needs my love more. There are several good sized fruits but they won't be 15 pound melons. Hale's Best gave up the ghost. It looked like it had burn commonly seen when not hardened correctly. But it was direct sowed. I pulled it and didn't look back. Any other year and I would have replanted. Boule d'Or Melon and Delice de Table are new to the party. I don't have an opinion on them yet. Bit O' Honey is also new. I have several vines in isolation for seed and some in the main garden. So far I like the culture of this one. The fruit that is set is bigger than I expected but still small. The vines imo seem compact. This one sets fruit fast and often. Some of the melons will be single serving size. Some will be snack size. In one patch there is a sick vine segment. But that patch is so out of control that I can't visually follow the vine. Today I gave up on trying to follow it and took pictures of the area. The other computers are analyzing the pictures and plotting vines as lines.