First of all, I have never heard of a montana clematis that has purple flowers. Are you sure it is a montana and if so, please find the name of it since I think a purple montana would be marvelous? If the seed were still green I would be a little leary of them being mature. Generally speaking clematis seed start turning from green to yellow and eventually to brown. If still green, I would assume the seed was not mature. Once the seed starts turning yellowish, its connection to the mother plant is being lost, hence the color change from green to yellow. I have picked plenty of pale yellow clematis seed for others to germinate and they haven't had any problems with getting them to germinate. Assuming the seeds are viable, you can start them at any time. The herbaceous clematis seed are warm weather germinators however most of the others prefer some sort of cold stratification to get good germination. The ones I have started in the past were potted up in the fall and kept in a cool area over the winter and either germinated during the winter or in the spring. If you do pot them up now, don't be surprised if nothing germinates until next spring after they go through a cold stratification period.

gr8heather, I thought I could find a helpful answer for you, but this may not be helpful. What you need is someone who understands this much better than I do, but I figured I should post the links to help you or the expert who might happen along. Best of luck! These vendors say it's hybrid: http://www.gurneys.com/product.asp?pn=80662 http://www.gourmetseed.com/product/PK14/Pumpkin-One-Too-Many-F1-Hybrid.html http://www.osborneseed.com/product-details.cfm?pumpkin--one-too-many-f1 Neither Jung nor Reimer mention it being hybrid, but list it as PVP or PVP applied for. https://www.jungseed.com/dp.asp?pID=03289&c=138&p=One+Too+Many+Pumpkin http://www.reimerseeds.com/one-too-many-pumpkins.aspx PVP means you can't legally propagate it and sell seed or plants; I don't know if you can propagate it and sell fruit legally from seed you've saved. But in any case, if it's really PVP, then the variety must be open-pollinated rather than hybrid. This info makes me wonder if the vendors who call it F1 have a lawsuit in their future. http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/crops/00301.html http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/ch10/p11/ And then there's Rupp (never heard of them before), who say nothing about hybrid or PVP: http://www.ruppseeds.com/divvegetable/onetoomany.htm?mnu=4 If you don't get a response here, you might also try the Vegetables forum. This post was edited by missingtheobvious on Tue, Feb 12, 13 at 19:55

From my experience and I'm south and east of you in very SW KS. Okra would self sow and probably be ok. I always sow my okra in the garden here around Memorial day weekend the same time I transplant my chile and jalapeno peppers. They both like warm soil temps. If planted in cold soil temps neither will grow much and can be stunted and may not ever produce like they should. When I lived in NE NM several of the chile farmers sowed seeds rather than transplant. And usually had a great late crop. The same thing I have seen here from volunteers I've left. And for several years I had a small ornamental type they could also be ate that self seeded every year. It became a nuisance and I finally removed all of them. But unless you just want to experiment a little I would transplant pepper plants. Gives you an earlier crop. On okra I think you should be fine. Soybeans I've never grown so can't comment on them. Again remember I probably have a longer growing season here and warm up faster also. My last frost date is April 16th. Jay

Septoria, like most of the common tomato plant diseases, are not seed-borne and do not affect the seed in any way. So saving the seed from the fruit is not an issue. On the other hand it never hurts to disinfect the seeds. The fermentation process, done properly, does that for the most part. Further disinfecting the seeds can be done in a number of ways. The most common method used is a brief soak in a 10% chlorine bleach solution (1 part bleach to 10 parts water) before drying the seeds. There are "how-to" FAQs over on the Seed Saving forum here with more details. Dave