From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
   ...   
   > Spoke with the greenhouse guy about this when I picked up   
   > my tomato plants.  When I told him I could not grow an onion   
   > from seed for my life, he told "and you never will."  I asked   
   > him why, considering the farmers around here grew onions for   
   > seeds and are actually famous for it.  He told me that it is   
   > a problem with the soil around here and that the commercial   
   > farmers are using special chemicals to get around the problem.   
      
     which shouldn't make any difference for those you   
   are starting in a seed starting mix or potting soil...   
      
      
   > Fortunately the 100 bulbs for $3.00 from Wally World grow   
   > just fine.   
      
     :)   
      
     let a few flower and drop seeds you'll get some   
   to sprout eventually.  somewhere in that place you   
   call home is enough organic matter and soil that   
   they'll grow.   
      
     they don't even need prime conditions to start as   
   i've had them pop up in the pathways here which are   
   mulched with crushed and rinsed limestone - whatever   
   dirt is in there is what has blown in or fell in   
   from various other things.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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